I was in France last week, working with a super group of photographers from London’s famous www.thecameraclub.co.uk/ And very fun it was (I’ll write more about it when I’ve got pictures to show you what I’m talking about). One of the photographers had thoughtfully brought a selection of magazines, including Practical Photography Magazine, which I love. (Have a look here if you’re interested… www.greatmagazines.co.uk/store/displayitem.asp?sid=91&id=30787&custid=0 )

I turned a page, and suddenly found a picture of myself. I imagine that if you’re Kate Moss or similar that this is probably quite a boring experience, but I’ve never really got used to it, and so I squeaked loudly enough for everyone to think I’d been attacked by an insect. Yay! Sometimes having a picture of you appearing in public can be rather painful, because the picture that gets chosen often isn’t one that you’re awfully happy with. But mercifully, this one is a picture I’m really proud of. So here it is.

Whee! Well done to Darren Birkin of www.v11.com/ who’s made the final of ‘Photographer of the Year’ with this picture. I’m very happy. And glad that he chose that dress for me to wear for our action shots – in the picture I think it looks liquid.

After I discovered it, I got very excited and looked through all the other magazines in a great frenzy of ego. But none of the others had any pictures of me at all. Bloody rude – why SHOULDN’T ‘Yachting Monthly’ support artistic nude photography a little bit?

PS – Sorry if none of the links work, I’m still learning how my blog works, and I’m a bit slow with these things…