Podcasts
Paul chats about life, the universe and anything portrait photography. You can listen to the podcasts here or you can subscribe on your favorite podcast player.
EP89 Steering A Covid Course – Taking Control Of All That I Can
Well, it’s only gone and happened again: we’re back in lockdown from this Thursday. Finding out on a Saturday night that you have five working days left in what is normally the busiest month of the year, is no...
EP88 How Thinking Like A Musician Can Help Your Images
In this episode we look at ways of seeing your images as your clients will. When I used to work in recording studios, we would dump a copy of the music track onto cassette (yes I am that old) and walk it out i...
EP87 The More You Learn The Less You Know
Well this is one of those catchup episodes (I have discovered that our studio microwave has a grill!), but it also deals with one of those odd bits of human nature: that as you develop your talents and...
EP86 Interview With Kate Nicolle, Relationship Counsellor
I don’t know quite what inspired me for this podcast, but I thought it would be interesting (and so it proved to be) to invite someone onto the podcast that really does understand relationships and the language ...
EP85 Fifteen Candidates, Seven Judges, Two Days Of Qualifications, One Podcast
In this episode, I get a chance to talk to the team of qualification judges that I am privileged to be a part of for the British Institue of Professional Photography. I thought it would be interesting (and so it...
EP84 – Critiques, Competitions & Qualifications: How DO You Get Useful Feedback?
Another Land Rover based podcast I’m afraid (at one point it sounds like I am being shaken to pieces!) but this time I have a little help with the noise reduction and sound quality. Hopefully, it’ll take the ed...
EP83 Do You Have To Be An Extrovert To Be A Portrait Photographer?
You’ll be happy to hear that this episode is recorded in the peace and quiet of our studio – actually, I had intended to record it in the studio garden as the cool and the smells of late summer and early autumn ...
EP82 Understanding Stops (More Importantly – Why It’s Useful!)
Today’s podcast was recorded as I travelled to photograph a wedding. Given this is August 2020 (the year of Covid-19) that is not a particularly common occurrence, with most of our weddings being postponed to 2...
EP81 Death By Diary
Today I am musing (and, additionally, interrupting myself – not once but twice!) on being beholden to my diary. It is, of course, completely to be expected when you run a successful portrait photography busines...
EP80 You Don’t Get Something For Nothing
Along with thousands of other students, Jake, our son, has just had his ‘A’ level results. An interesting time to put it mildly. However, it did get me thinking about how incredibly hard he worked for his mock ...
EP79 Interview With Andy Blake, General Manager of Kaleidoscope Framing
Life as a photographer can feel like you’re working on your own – all those hours with the camera, lights, with Photoshop and the complexities of your own business. But, of course, the truth is a little more nu...
EP78 Coping With Covid As We Re-Boot The Business
This episode was recorded from the cab of my Land Rover Defender as I head to (and come back from) the wedding that held on in the diary despite of the risk of cancellation due to Covid-19 restrictions. You hav...
Just found your podcast, and I really enjoyed the few episodes I have listened to so far. Truly, other than the History of Photography 101, it is the first photography podcast I have been able to make it through one whole episode, let alone multiple episodes….it resonates with me….have just had a cursory look at the website and I look forward to exploring it!
Thank you so much Teri! When I started the podcast it was just me an’ a microphone as a way of talking about the stresses of running a portrait photography business. Funnily enough it’s still just me an’ a microphone…
It’s still a surprise that people seem to enjoy it and I am so happy that it’s useful. Thank thank, thank you, thank you for your lovely feedback!
So it had to happen. After all, remember “Downton Abbey” and “Game of Thrones”? My strategy has always been to give a program/blog/podcast a few years to prove itself and then jump in and binge watch years of content. But then it comes to an end…I’m caught up and have to wait for the next episode like, well, “common people”. I’m 72 and I don’t wait really well. After months of having Paul Wilkinson accompany me on my morning walk, I miss the guy. It didn’t make any difference if it was just us with Paul musing on his… Read more »
Robert that is the nicest review of the podcast ever! Thank you! I am trying to keep the episodes coming, but, well, real life and dealing with the lockdown have slowed things a little. New episodes coming though! Hang on in there and thank you again!