I'm leaving Yachting Monthly

snooks said:
Fourteen years after joining Yachting Monthly and IPC I'm flying the nest to go embark on a freelance career. It's my own choice, I have enjoyed my time with YM, but the opportunity to go freelance has come about, and this sort of opportunity doesn't come along often, so I'm off.

This means I'll loose my mod like superpowers, I'll be Clark Kent in a Kryptonite cave, powerless to ban, move threads, or read the suspended gossip after the event and you'll have no more stickies from me, so rejoice!

Therefore if you have problems - on here, not in general - please don't pm me, I'll no longer be able help :)

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at YM and IPC, (with the exception of being hit by a 42ft power boat, and have someone on here threatening Pixie one Christmas Eve). I'll miss my friends and colleagues who I believe are some of the best in the business, but I'll still be working in the industry, and more importantly I'll still be on here to ask for and give advise whether it's needed or not ;) though not as a mod.

So all that's left to say is that if you want to follow the failing career of a one time yachting photographer I'm on twitter:
http://twitter.com/snappersnooks
And Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/grahamsnookphotography
And my website http://grahamsnook.com should be up and running soon.

So fair winds, and if you see me out on the water say hello, it's always nice to meet new faces.

[edit]We're all off to the pub now :)
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Seems to be a theme here, freelance picture taker. You could rename as 'Photocat' or some such!
Best wishes and good luck.
 
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Wish you best of luck. Bugger tho, there goes thoughtful insightful input..
Seize the day and all that, recessions sort out the cando's from the canna's. And if you don't then there'll always be that nagging Leounge-like 'What if I had when the opportunity arose'....? So, go paint it large ( or photo it)
 
you wont get any sense out of him today, it would seem the whole office has gone down the pub to wish everyone who is leaving well...

And no I am not down the pub, I have only just got back from hols so will have to wait till 1730...
 
snooks said:
Fourteen years after joining Yachting Monthly and IPC I'm flying the nest to go embark on a freelance career. It's my own choice, I have enjoyed my time with YM, but the opportunity to go freelance has come about, and this sort of opportunity doesn't come along often, so I'm off.
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You're not eloping with Sarah Norbury are you??? :D :D

edit: Damn... "Lakey'd" by Highndry... :)
 
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Orrabest!

As we say north of the border.

I too think you're 'Nuts' ..... but that doesn't stop you being the nice chap that we all know you are ...... (Y)
 
photodog said:
What are you nuts???

You've got a tasty staff job which pays the bills and you are leaving that to go freelance???

In this economy?

Have you seen what's happening in the industry??

Well, good luck either way but I think your bonkers!
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Lakesailor said:
I thought the same. However you must have some on-going work and good contacts. I hope.

(My advice (feel free to ignore) is not to rely too heavily on promised work-load. Find new clients as soon as possible. Have an annual prune of time-wasters and non-payers.)

Good luck. It's a bit of a culture shock.
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Well, when I went freelance in Training I earned more, paid less tax AND had more free time with teh family, but it only lasted about 9 years beefore the market changed. I agree with Lakey's advice, the more contacts & clients the better. I also learned not to say "no" but rather "can I change the date" or "why not do it like this?".

But I enjoyed my time in foreign climes, altho I did come to hate airports - and that was before all the current "security" nonsense. Anyway, good luck with the change, keep your accounts up to date (especially who has & has not paid!) and give 'em all you've got!!
 
Good luck, and remember there is no point being freelance if you can't b****r off and go sailing every once in a while!

(I must have been late the other day we are supposed to pass each other in the harbour entrance and you had got all the way to Stokes Bay).
 
Good luck.

That's surprising - I thought your job with YM was pretty much a paid holiday (apart from the occasional power boat in the face). Will IPC be one of your freelance clients?
 
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