Another short one as when the 4 week lockdown ended, we were right back into the tier system, and then another lockdown for the whole of England. I only used my camera on four occasions during December.

• A local photography group had a sort of competition at the end of the year, with the broad theme of ‘2020’. I knew a lot of people would enter an image that was taken in 2020, but I wanted to take something specific, mainly as a reason to use my camera, so thought about what I could take and decided to use some disposable masks to create the image. A bit of experimentation, but it was good to give it a go and create something different.
• I worked with Matt Adcock at a Meadows Camera Club, with a few adjustments due to the current regulations, a group shoot was not possible, so it was more of a one-on-one session for a short amount of time. We managed to get through a few different setups and created some fantastic images. Great to work with and I’m sure he’ll be back again when the group shoots are allowed to go ahead again.
• One of my favourite people to work with is Nico, and after seeing some self shot images she posted online using her new coloured gels, I thought we should work together again and do a shoot entirely based on using coloured gels. Originally I was going to go with not using any white light at all, but after having a couple of setups I wanted to try out and thought would work excellently with her that used some white light, I changed it to mainly using all gelled lighting, but some white light was allowed. We created some of my favourite images on this shoot and I’m sure it won’t be too long before I work with Nico again, so long as shoots are allowed to take place.
• Finally for December, and 2020 as well, I worked with Adora Belle once again. I’ve now shot with her on quite a few occasions and this shot was originally meant to be a duo shoot, but changed to a solo shoot with a Xmas theme as well as a sub/domme theme. Wonderful to work with her again, always a good laugh and we came away with lots of great images from this shoot.

And that’s it for 2020

A strange year for everyone and with lots of places going back into lockdowns, it doesn’t seem to be changing anytime soon, but I’m hopeful that we can all get back out and create some new images as soon as it is safe to do so.

Stay safe everyone, and I hope to see you all in 2021