2008 Was a Good Year for friends

The New Year has begun and sadly our news tells us that we open the year with yet another feud in the world and more people are dying, images of children being injured are just too much to bare so we question our role in this place and we hope that a higher power knows best for us all.

2009 has to bring hope and perhaps a stance against the world negativity towards our money markets, leaders , fanatics and general bad energy. I look 

around and this year more than ever I am thankful for the people I have met and surrounded myself with in the last year.

I learnt a lot about friends in 2008, with only a few surprises. These people have inspired and given me great amusement, love, entertainment, help, caring, support, laughter and a desire to be greater in 2009 than in previous years. 

Through my contact and enjoying the moments in my photography I have pushed the boundaries of creativity, technology and a general need to be better at the things I love doing I feel I have built upon my friendships and knowledge for the coming years.

How do you produce a list and order them without giving priority that would hurt or categorize ? Well it was simple, I do not have a list. I bundled them all in and each one deserves a comment for their contribution to me this year.

First I thank my family, no questions.

I have travelled and in those travels Ray Santana has been a sound board, a rock and a true friend with free advice and a general sense of giving and availability that has made me try things when others might not. Ray I love you and I love your rock, Anna. In those travels I have met Mike Colon. He has inspired me in many different ways and his thirst for life and for doing things first constantly keeps me thinking. Mike you are my bro !!! Thanks to your family for letting them give yourself. 

I love to eat and last year I ate the finest Argentinean steak in Celebration. Orlando with Kevin Keelan and family. Kevin we have spoken little this year as our rota's have been hectic but I owe you now and you will collect.

We are nothing without help and Shirley Nicklin has had my back a lot this year from London to Stockholm, even when they would not let her in !!! Haha. Shirley I love your enthusiasm and ability to go the distance with me when I am insisting at midnight we do one more money shot. I will always help you were I can and thank you for your support. Travel with Claudia Barth this year saved me in the Germanic tongue and you get a spec

ial thank you for your help in Switzerland which was nothing more than fun. My other support and friend Rob Johnson had my back a few times this year, bro I will return the favour now you moved to Nikon in 2009.

To Sophie Griffith who I just resonate with and we have such fun at our shoots, I am glad your family has grown again this year now back to work as I am missing our gigs.!

My greatest critic and friend Luke Jennings part of Fingo, who keeps all around me beautiful and creative. He is always available when I have a question on any matter. I will always ask for your thoughts my friend, your response never fail me, once I can convince you. !!!

To my yoga teacher Scott Johnson, you keep me on the mat where ever I am, thank you my friend.

So as we head into 2009 I want to see the positive in all things, to inspire and be inspired to teach and learn from teaching and to again push the boundaries of what I love to do so that I can give a little part of myself to the world around me.

I take pictures as i believe "To see is to have been there, to remember is to have experienced."

My greatest moment of last year was when I laugh

ed so hard it hurt. Thank you to V & R for taking me to Rome. I will never forget this moment or this person. Sorry to all others that I shot this year but this story is legend.

See you all this year, here's to 2009 !!!!!

T the Brit