Another year over, another year older. It’s been a good year, shot a lot of images, some of which I was pleased with. No major assignment catastrophes except for one night on a bullet train coming back from a two day shoot in Osaka when my flash card corrupted and I lost the whole shoot, only to have it recovered the next day at a Data Rescue Centre in Tokyo.

I did many assingments this year I was happy with and managed to visit 5 continents in the process. I was in Antarctica to cover the Japanese whaling fleet in action, in Papua New Guinea (a place I’d always wished to visit) to shoot a climate change story, in Scotland to shoot many internationally recognised authors, undertook assignments up, and mostly down, the length of Japan and had two trips back to Romania to continue shooting my gypsy project from which the above image comes.
Also this year was a good year for meeting and photographing some personalities, including Yoko Ono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shinzo Abe, George Soros, Sigourney Weaver….and I got my Digital Railroad archive up and running which has been very useful.

So it’s the end of the year, and that means it’s awards entry time. Seems the awards entries are coming faster and faster, and there are more and more awards. Each takes time to complete, rules to read and followed. It’s time consuming, laborious, a bit boring. I just sat this afternoon finishing off my World Press Photo entry. Wish me luck.

So, Happy New Year when it comes, and all the best for 2007.