Jacks back

Well I don't think anyone missed me too much as there were no emails worrying about the blogs extended absence this time around. Suffice to say we were both away personally and professionally.

In the meantime though answer me this will you, how come whenever you book a personal trip the calls for work come flooding in for the dates you will be away ? Its always the same could be sitting around with out a bite to be had and then voila just as you are packed and ready to go the phone starts ringing off the hook.

There is always that omnipresent fear of missing out on the holy grail once tickets have been booked and plans made. These fears are more often then not realized come departure day and cause us freelancers to often never book any sort of holiday time far in advance. We can usually come up with some sort of self serving reasoning; you know its like nothing ever happens in August because the whole industry is away but hang on a sec if I am around and all the other photogs are out of town maybe the goose will lay me a golden egg.

Grrrr whats one to do ? Thankfully my beautiful wife keeps us mobilized. With a job in the real world one has to manage ones away time carefully so we do plan ahead to maximize every extra day and opportunity. If I was left to my own devices everything would end up being so last minute we probably wouldn't end up going anywhere.

Although I have to say I have scored a gig from time to time being away by giving PE's a heads up as to my whereabouts.

On this occasion a quick 5 day trip to Ireland resulted in missing 5 days work for 3 different magazines. The itinerary was non transferable as were the shoot dates so no go for me on any of the gigs. Often best you don't get too much info on the jobs you are missing out on so you don't get too upset at what possibilities may be lost.

Not to worry though I had a choice gig to come back to, but what the fuck as soon as I hit the tarmac on the return to NYC and powered up the Blackberry there were 2 more sweet gigs in the inbox with complete specs and what do you know they all want the same dates. Aaaargh this is aggravating especially when the assignments are all plum with image making potential.

One photographers loss is of course anothers gain. You wouldn't mind though nothing in the books for this week after the flurry; just plenty more work working on work and maybe a little blogging while we are at it. Stay tuned.