Bloggie Birthday

It's our birthday! This blog has been going a whole year today!

It’s certainly been a rollercoaster ride. Many times I thought I’d delete the blog (Rich threatened me with divorce if I did!), many times it has been immensely painful and frustrating to write. Other times it’s been immense fun! We have shared our personal journey through the first year of photography with many thousands of complete strangers, and in the process, made many friends and found out many new things about each other along the way. Plus, IMO, Rich has created some groovy art and discovered his true vocation (shooting nekkid chicks!)

We always planned to keep the blog going a year, and then decide whether or not to continue it.

From a personal point of view, even if no-one read my ramblings, I’d still have to blog, no matter what. Ideas for potential posts regularly drag me out of bed at 4 a.m. to kick my scrawny ass onto the laptop. I get no peace until the blog entry is written. Richard, on the other hand, often finds blogging stressful. I always tell him to blog more, simply because I think he’s a great writer. But he always says he’s not a writer, he’s first and foremost a photographer, and he’s happier concentrating on his Art.

So I guess the bulk of the writing will be continued by me (I am after all, the Queen of Waffle, and I do love talking about anything and everything), with sporadic posts now and again by Rich. He says he’s only going to post when he has something he wants to write about – other than that, his work says all he wants to say (Now who does that sound like, Mr Moten?!)

A year ago today, this blog started as a way of exploring what Rich and I were creating together (photographically speaking), and to reassure potential models that we weren’t a couple of pervs. Now blogging has become a way of life for me, almost an addiction. It’s made me realise that writing is my passion. Plus it’s given us both a whole new online bloggie social circle, some brilliant friends and it’s been a great show-case for Rich’s artistic endeavours.

Thank you for staying with us for a whole year.

I can’t promise that this blog will still be going in a year’s time, although that is certainly our intention, but I can promise you that we will be blogging and photographing, somewhere, somehow.

Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to celebrate a year’s blogging with a bottle of Chardonnay, a shiny black cat-suit, and a pair of giant rubber lips (don’t ask!)

These are the top three most popular images from the last year, in order. The Kate montage, Cheeky Lee’s “Submissiveness”, and the beautiful Roswell Ivory.