On a positive note, as much as we love summer and the warm weather and blue skies (not that we saw much of it this year), we also love Autumn (or Fall as our North American readers would have it). There is nothing quite like romping through woodlands on a crisp and dry autumn day, kicking up leaves before coming home to a nice hot cup of coffee and wondering how it was you didn't see that pile of doggy poo under the leaves (yuk!).
Anyway, talking of smelly things.. autumn also means it is political conference season.
All of the main political party organisations in the UK will have their conferences in late September nicely scheduled so that they don't clash with each other. These wonderfully stage managed affairs are dreadfully popular with the party members as they can appear to be doing something worthy for their chosen party when in reality they are looking forward to a few days debauchery at the seaside (my opinion only of course - I'm probably wrong!).
With our press photographers hat on, we are likely to be covering the Conservative Party Conference this year as it is being held 'on our patch' as it were (Manchester).
Joking apart, the conferences are great for us as photographers as we get to meet all the big wigs that either run the country, would like to run the country or pretend they would like to run the country but know they don't have a chance of ever doing it.
Anyhow, to get a flavour, here are a few photographs from previous conferences and for complete political neutrality, I've selected a couple of photos from each of the three main UK partys and they are displayed in no particular order.
Rt Hon. David Cameron MP
Ex Prime Minister, Tony Blair
Nick Clegg MP
William Hague MP
Ex Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith MP
Dr Vince Cable MP
Rt Hon. David Cameron MP
If you want to see more political photographs (who wouldn't) or indeed examples of the other sort of press and event photography we undertake, have a look at our press and event photography website which you can get to by clicking here
