Ian Guffogg | The Geeky Snapper

Allow me to address the elephant in the room - the lack of real life humans on my port.

Despite my port saying I joined 2 years ago I actually joined quite some time before that - under medical advisement, and with admin’s blessing, 2 year(ish) ago I deleted my old port and created this port because I split my real life and hobbies in an attempt assuage carers guilt I was suffering quite badly with. It didn't help. - and I had every intention of shooting creative portraiture. As so often happens with life, things happened - my wife Jan became disabled as a result of illness - and I found myself unable to make my goal of shooting creative portraiture a reality, but I enjoyed the site and got on well with a number of awesome folks on here, so stuck around. Also for a time I published somewhat regular interviews with folks on here but that stopped for a number of reasons, most notably my duties as a full time caregiver. Throughout our time together Jan, knowing that this was something I wanted to do, kept trying to "gently" persuade me that I should still try to do it despite me being her full time caregiver. As is the way of a husband, I ignored her, and I found myself told off a few times because of it! In May of this year (2023) I unexpectedly lost Jan after a short illness and I’ve found that my camera has provided me comfort in this time, giving me something to do, and something to concentrate on. Although admittedly only shooting toys, flowers, and family pets as before. Moving forward my hope is that I can, to borrow from some of Jan’s pep talks, pull my finger outta my a**, and start to shoot some real life humans.

…Christ! What a long winded way of saying there’s no people because I haven't really shot people yet!