Monday, February 04, 2008

The Vagabond Photo Agency

The vagabond photo agency is a not for profit wedding photography organization (charity Reg No: 11345) service that charges absolutely no fees. Yes no fees. It especially caters for hard-up, poor and poverty stricken chartered accountants from the Cayman Islands who have minimum disposable income; a symptom rife in tax free offshore locations.

The charity organization is run by one sole individual; head strong, tough, a hopeless romantic, soft at heart, and inspirational person who instills fears in the hearts of the competition – who have no chance of competing with not only a free wedding photographer but a fucking world-class one at that.

It is a lonely world; the world of the free wedding photographer. A dying breed. Not many of us around now-a-days. Most perished in starvation states in the 80’s. Those that survived the “starvation’ we’re killed off during the Nikon – Canon War of the 90’s. And the few rugged hardy types that weathered that storm finally perished with the onset of the camera mobile phone. Now any twat on the street can take a picture and call it art.

But the wedding photographer (especially the free one) is an obstinate breed. He can make friends easily, he can win praise, he can win plaudits, but he can never afford a good decent meal. For his pockets are lined not with the welcome sound of jangling cash but with bread crumbs stolen from the local bakery. It is a world not for weaklings. It’s tough out there. Dog eat dog. Man eat man eat dog. Man eat man eat dog eat rat eat KFC McChicken

Yes, I had rat last night actually. Braised on a smokey pyre of burning tyres from the ghetto kids. But that’s another story all together.

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