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Welcome to Savvography.

What a strange combination of skills! Arent you just a Jack of all trades?

Well let me tell you about me.

I originally trained as an electronics technician but very early in my career built on my natural aptitude for the software side of things and developed myself as a Software Engineer. After twenty or so years in the business I became dissatisfied with what I could get out of the job -- when I started out in the mid-eighties it a lot of creative satisfaction could be had from product development. But the way the business has developed means that nowadays one is left working on the same small pieces of large systems and never see a complete product.

Repeated redundancies and having to live in the Thames Valley only serve further to make hi-tech engineering unattractive.

So finding myself with a wealth of IT engineering experience and nowhere to use it I asked myself what I really wanted to do. Quite an easy question and the answer was so obvious it took me a while to see it: I've always been a hobbyist photographer and I'd been studying City&Guilds Photography for a couple of years ... why not pursue that dream of being a commercial photographer? So I signed up for a Foundation Degree in Commercial Photographic Practice at Newcastle College and was lucky enough to get on maybe the last degree course that actually taught photographic technique. And two years later here we are, the fruits of my labour -- Savvography. I'm still enough of a geek that I can't give up the IT nonsense but you benefit by getting a photographer who knows about customer service, timescales and delivering exactly what you want.