I had a long drive to Colwyn Bay this week to shoot some press photos for Waitrose's press office.
Menai Bridge Waitrose has entered an agreement with Welsh Mountain Zoo to send them fruit and veg, which is past their best, to feed their animals.
I worked for Waitrose myself in the Warehouse Dept in Cirencester many years ago now, and I was always appalled at the amount of waste we threw away.
My Pictures were to be used to send out to the Regional & National papers.
Katie the Chimpanzee is pictured here tucking into some Bananas and a Pinapple.
The Zoo is a lovely place to visit and the staff are so friendly & fun, I would really recomend it to anyone.
See Links below to some of the places where my pictures have been used...
Waitrose Media Site
North Wales Chronicle
I was at the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay, North Wales yesterday for one of my clients Waitrose.
The Menai Bridge store has entered an agreement with the Welsh Mountain Zoo to send them fruit and veg, which is past their best, to feed their animals.
We photographed many of the animals there, but I loved getting close to the Meerkats, one of my favourite animals. They behaved very well for us.
Thanks so much to Paul Mattock of PM Photography for the photo of me at work above.
Leeds: Took this photo of people walking past this interesting looking shop window in New Market St, Leeds, West Yorkshire earlier today.
The picture I wanted to take was of some people queuing for the Bus against the window, but as soon as I raised my trust Nikon to take the picture they all turned their backs and therefore ruined the shot.
Documenting street life is not like the old days.
My Blipfoto Journal
This week I wanted to create a neater and more professional signature for my emails, and in particular, I wanted to add the social networking Icons and links you see above.
I had many problems along the way trying to add the Icons and rather than elaborate on these issues, I would prefer to cut a long story short and explain how I managed to get to the final result above.
The first thing I did was use google images to find the Icons for Facebook, Flickr, Blogger, LinkedIn, Blipfoto, Skype and Twitter. I saved these all in one folder together. I also made a list of the URL to my home pages on each of these web sites.
For some reason when you use outlooks own signature editor due to ActiveX and other reasons, the images don't appear and it doesn't seem to work properly. My version of outlook is ancient (2002) and I am sure there must be better systems on the more modern versions.
I worked out in the end that the only way to do it was to create a html page and add the images to this from the same folder as the index file. I downloaded Kompozer, a free html editor. It's very simple to use, as long as you have a basic knowledge of html.
I typed in all the contact information and then added the icons one by one, adding their link at the same time when inserting the logo. I also re-sized them all so they looked the same size, and Kompozer has a neat way of doing this, giving you the size as you re-scale.
Once I was happy with the layout I the html file in the same folder as the Icons. I then went into Outlook and went to Tools/Options/Mail Format/Signatures. I then chose New signature and gave the signature a name and making sure the 'Use this file as a template' was ticked I browsed for the file I just saved. And that is it - all done!
I hope this helps. I just hope now my emails don't start getting sent to my clients Spam bins, I will have to wait and see.
Cheers Keith
Blipfoto Virgin no longer! - Just created my first journal photo for today, I will add a new photo every day. Enjoy....
I am hoping that creating a Blipfoto journal will help me become a little more motivated.See my Blipfoto entry here - And please add it to your favourites.
Back in January this year I was commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC) to shoot a number of features on 6 different subjects in Medical education jobs across the UK. See original Blog
The pictures were used in a report called 'The State of Basic Medical Education' Reviewing quality assurance and regulation (pdf Link below).
The shoots were in Norwich (above), Edinburgh, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Manchester and Leeds and my pictures were used on pages13,14,15,27,31,37,38,39,41 and 57.
See Link to the report PDF below...
'The State of Basic Medical Education' GMCGMC Web Site
I had a long drive to Colwyn Bay this week to shoot some press photos for Waitrose's press office. 
