I havent got a proper plan for this blog yet, so any and all prompts, questions and ideas gratefully recieved!

I may as well take this opportunity to remind you that we have day and weekend tickets available for The Official Whitby Gothic Weekend.

If you require tickets, just EMAIL me! Info@vags.net.

Why not join our facebook page too while you are at it- then send me a message that way!

And just to finish off, heres a few cheeky peekies of some of our popular designs..

And on that note, I leave you!

thanks for dropping by!

I’ll be honest, there are headaches with running a business. Alot people decide against having a business because they do not want the hassle.

How will you ever know what you can handle …possible even enjoy if you do not give it a go !!!

What is stopping you from being your own boss !!

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And actually going out looking to make shots just for it !!! So as I start shooting ore new material for both the show and my redbubble gallery !!!

http://www.wgwatsonphoto.webs.com

wgw creative sports

I was reading a blog yesterday, and realized that I have this blog thing all wrong.  I need to start writing more about you and less about me.  I’m a photographer

who is also a business man trying to learn how to do business better !  That was one of my main reasons for blogging. To start sharing things that I have learned as I go about making my

photography  company  better !!!   So I will start writing this more from your perspective. Trying to find out more about what you enjoy doing with your camera!!

Are you a person in a small business ? Are you a person that has a dream for a business ? ( Check out Passionmakers on FB)

The theme of the show is basically photoart that would look good in your home, your office. Or perhaps some photoart that could be used 

as a Christmas present . There will be a variety of macro work, scenic photography and a few other areas !!!

Basically there should be some kind of photo art there for anyone to appreciate !!!!

You know for ages I’ve been trying to find the secret to marketing.  And in the end I can say the thing is to just get out and get your name in front of people . And work your butt off to keep your name in front of them.

As much as the Lakenheath mindset is against me…. Lakenheath seems to only want to help those born in this village, or have a certain family name.  But I’m beginning to think. When I first moved into this village back in 1980.

It was a thriving place, there were gas stations, they was a butcher’s shop . The place was buzzing period. But sadly like most rural communities there is nothing to keep the young job looking people here so they move away.

Anyway I’m going to stop worrying about  what I cant control, and work to bring my Photography to the forefront of this village !!!!

My song.

Click on the image or more tag below to view all the images.

Cheers

Steve

If you’d like a copy of your image without the watermark simply drop me a line with the image No or if you’d prefer a high quality print then please don’t hesitate to contact me below.

PS You can find John’s gallery here…

PPS Here are a set of links to previous events:-

• Halloween 2010
• April 2010
• October 2009
• March 2009
• October/November 2008

Let’s just hope the weather keeps as beautiful as it has the last few days

Steve

I am the WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST!! And the XOXO GG GOLDEN GIRL.
So my twirlmasters. This is the Launch of Team Twirl/White Girl Wasted Sticker Club. If you like my music and want in email me your name and address at itsellemc@gmail.com and I will send you out stickers every time I get a new batch. They will always be different.

Only requirement to be a #twirlmaster is when you get your stickers you have to take a picture of yourself with the stickers (don’t be scurred to get artsy with it) and email it into me or post it on my facebook fanpage Here>>> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elle-Mc/163315520379156

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Click HERE to see more Twirl Team/WGW pictures!

As always I’d love any comments or feedback or maybe just a click of the ‘Like’ button.

Remember you can use the photos from the blog for your own personal use without permission.

You can find John’s photos here.

Steve

PS These are only a selection so if you are interested in what other photos are of yourself I can provide them for you to look at as well.

You can visit the office site for the weekend here.

Steve

“Whitby was full of gothic sparkle as thousands of revellers poured into the town for gothic weekend…”

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Trellia’s comment:  Check out the slideshow to see some great pics from this spring’s WGW,

Well, we couldn’t have hoped for better weather, what a nice and sunny weekend (if a bit windy on Saturday afternoon).

I feel it was a great turnout and everybody has put so much effort into there costumes and accessories.

Hope you enjoy them and a big thank you to all for letting us take you photograph.

Steve

PS Should Laura reach this point I’d be very interested in undertaking a portrait session with you. Simply drop me a line and let me know.

PPS Here are a set of links to previous events:-

• October 2009
• March 2009
• October/November 2008

“WHITBY’S famous beach huts are to be given a radical makeover in time for the forthcoming Whitby Gothic Weekend…”

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Trellia’s comment:  I think this is a great idea!   What a pity the work will start on April 1st ….

Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes…It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.  Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard all full of tombstones. This, to my mind, is the nicest spot in Whitby…

– Mina Harker in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Whitby, cliff-side graves with Abbey in the distance.

When I said I don’t go on literary pilgrimages, I lied.  Since moving to the UK I have gone to Whitby almost every year, and have read Stoker’s Dracula numerous times.  It loses none of its uncanny terror and strangeness in multiple readings, despite the countless films and derivative fictions which threaten to steal its undead soul.  Part of this fortitude must be due to the novel’s structural rigor and the Stoker’s wonder at the clash of new technology and superstition or folklore which remains fresh and relevant over a hundred years later.

I have yet to find Lucy and Mina’s favourite “seat”– the grave of a suicide– though this is what I would most like to discover.  I have avoided any of the touristy “Dracula” tours and “Experiences”, hoping one day the “real thing” or some suitably fictional inspiration will make itself known to me.

I go every year for the Gothic Festival, where the pubs in town welcome the goths with Halloween decorations and pints of cider & black.  All the charity shops do up their window mannequins in tarty stretch velvet and fishnets, and put out special rails of black clothing.

The goth weekend has little to do with any literary pilgrimage.  Goths have gathered en masse here twice a year for a decade and a half now.  It’s more fancy dress than rock and roll, which is curious coming from the West Coast of the US, where the worst thing ever is to appear costumed or pretentious in any way.  Many goths that show up will claim to have been coming since the good old days when it was just a pub meet at the Elsinore, shortened to “The Elsi,” the facade of which is festooned with a banner that reads “Home of the Goths.”

In many ways Whitby does feel like home, this place where Dracula arrives on a ghost ship with a corpse tied to its helm.  It must be that the town owns a great deal of its notoriety to an infamous immigrant– Count Dracula.  All the locals are quite welcoming to the goths who often challenge modest rural norms with their sartorial choices. Everyone wants to know how far you have come to visit, as a point of pride.

The winding streets and cobbled alleyways are especially captivating at night.  Unlike Dracula‘s London locales, Whitby almost feels pristine. One can climb the countless steps up to the abbey, just as Mina might have, to witness the graves all blankly staring out to sea, the only sound the wind hissing through the grass.  The star-pricked sky above merges with the black sea in one great, silent mystery… full of the somnambulists and changelings of an aging sub-culture.

WHITBY Gothic Weekend regular Melanie Denyer aka DJ Lucy*Fur lost her fight for life in the early hours of Wednesday morning….

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So many sad news relating to Goths recently…
Lucy*Fur’s MySpace page is here.