The day I lost my mum.......Happy Mums day today

My mum die on the 24 Feb 2010 of cancer, she cremated 9th March and its mothers day today, 1am cant sleep, been looking through images of us all at Christmas, I am so glad that we all came together as a family and spent mums last Christmas with her family around her. I feel sad and miss her greatly, she had a good long life, she was 84 when she die, but I miss her so, I go to give her a call or think I will just pop in and see her on the way home from work. I hope you are ok mum, looking down on us. Happy mothers day, I love you. ray xxx

? Can Be One of Your Most Valuable Traffic Sources

LinkedIn is often discussed as a powerful social networking tool, particularly for business professionals, employers, and job-seekers. What is not discussed as frequently is the site's ability to simply drive traffic to your site. We talked to entrepreneur Lewis Howes (who claims that LinkedIn is one of the top traffic sources to his blogs) about how powerful LinkedIn can be for driving traffic. click hear

Style Matters

Style Matters

Let’s celebrate automotive style

Fashion is at once the most vacuous and the most vital, ever-changing cultural force. And rather than being all about handbags, high heels, sharp suits and frilly frocks, the amorphous animal that is fashion applies to everything we do.

And that includes driving cars and riding bikes.
www.influx.co.uk

Thoughts of my mum

My mum is dying of cancer, she is at her home and I have been caring for her for the last 3 months, although this time has been very difficult and sad at times, it has also been a time where mum and I have become very close and shared some lovely time together,

I was just wondering what the was the 1st photograph I took of her, so I been off looking for shots of her....

Stair Porn

Don't go trying to put this in the trash before someone looks over you shoulder, its not what you think, its a great little site dedicate to stairs porn in all there forms, if you wish the mail you everyday with great images of a fab staircase, I find it inspiring and I light releaf if I am stuck processing images all day. So well done those guys at stair porn.

I do have a client that says the same about joinery, his guys in design studio say "that's a nice bit of joinery porn" us boys.....I'm sure girls do the same, do they?

 The image is of a villa in Capri designed by Italian architect Adalberto Libera built 1936-43.

Should I be in a ladies toilet

 Going back to my roots here, with a little bit shoot of Architectural photography, very enjoyable, this is the second time I have photograph at this site the last time was an old winter gardens just before some renovation works started and this time it been just as rewarding, nothing better that being left alone with some Victorian slender, hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The first and third images are from the Ladies Loos and the second is from the winter gardens shoot that I did earlier in the year.

don't know if you have heard of issuu.com but you can see ray main latest published work there take a look click here
 .

Coming into work today it was -4; I know not as cold as some places but cold enough for me. News letter will be up on the mainstreamimages.blog later today please follow us and keep in touch with all the new editorial ideas and jobs coming in.

Happy New Year to the good old NHS

Its a been a strange new year, started with my mum having a heart attack on the 30/12 and finished with her recovering in hospital and coming away from there last night feeling very grateful that I still have a mum. My thanks goes out to the team at the A&E and resuscitation unit for not letting my mum go to the big jazz club in the sky just yet.