I still work a four-day week at Sydney City Council, but there seems to be a lot more work and a lot more pressure. As well as editing lots of documents and publications, I’m putting together the internal communications blog – lots of stories about the staff and what the City’s doing to make Sydney wonderfuller than ever. It’s good fun and it gives me a chance to take some photos for the blog, which I enjoy.
I organise a little crash course in photography for myself and three colleagues from a former colleague – Sydney Morning Herald ex chief photographer, Peter Morris, now a freelancer. The brief is to concentrate on what we do most – take shots of the staff, or of the Mayor meeting people. It’s an interesting course and we learn a few very handy tips. For example, if you are taking a shot of a big group, get them to turn sideways to the camera and look over their shoulders, that way you can cram more of them into a tighter shot!
Above is one shot I took to illustrate a scary ghost story evening at a City library using two colleagues, Cara and Kristina, as models. It went on the blog and on the City website.
