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What sort of a life do you make for yourself when there is no focus? How does your life pan out as you ride the vicissitudes of a dog eat dog, cut throat employment market? How do you chase your dreams into adulthood to find love, happiness and success, when you carry inside yourself a childhood, dejected, insecure, unstable and with what tiny morsel of confidence you possess - in tatters, because you've been at the mercy of a bullying control freak - your own father?
I have survived so much mental anguish with confidence renewed following a difficult and painful education in Blackpool. After handwriting 100 letters, I landed my first job - cutting my teeth as a London-based portrait and wedding photographer in early summer 1986. A life on the ocean wave then beckoned, which turned me from nervous novice ship's photographer to expert smudger working aboard cruise liners worldwide.
In 1990 I settled down, met the girl of my dreams and landed a fabulous job - Metropolitan Police Service forensic photographer. In the late 1990s I qualified as a Hendon-based instructor, leaving the police in 2004 to set up a business. If that wasn't enough, I then retrained as a medical photographer in 2008 and I'm now a medical photography manager working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Both journey and path to success have been a miracle in the making.
Introduction - Vinegar and Farts! xi
PART 1: THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE YEARS 1
Chapter 1 - South to North 3
Chapter 2 - The Arnold School Years (1975-1982) 26
Chapter 3 - The Summer of 1982 86
Chapter 4 - Photography Studies (The Blackpool & Fylde College Years) September 1982-June 1985 98
PART 2: FIRST BOOK, FIRST JOB, TO A LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE 133
Chapter 5 - My First Book 135
Chapter 6 - My First Full Time Job: Wedding & Portrait Photographer, South-East London, May 1986-January 1988 139
Chapter 7 - Life as a Ship's Photographer: The Cruiseship Picture Years (1988-1989) 165
PART 3: SETTLING DOWN: THE METROPOLITAN POLICE FORENSIC PHOTOGRAPHY YEARS 247
Chapter 8 - Forensic Photographer, Metropolitan Police Service, London, Landing the Dream Job and Settling Down - The Early 1990s 249
Chapter 9 - Joining the Scenes of Crime Team - February 1991 271
Chapter 10 - Attending Scenes of Murder, Suspicious Death and Post Mortems 287
Chapter 11 - Bomb Standby On Call Rota and Drug Dealing to Care and Protection and Brothel Raids 316
Chapter 12 - Fatal and Serious Personal Injury Road Traffic Accidents 329
Chapter 13 - The Photography of Fire Scenes 351
Chapter 14 - Theft and Attempted Theft, Criminal Damage, Armed Robbery, Fraud and Drug Offences 360
Chapter 15 - A Cornwall Wedding, a USA Honeymoon and back to Scenes of Crime, September 1992 368
Chapter 16 - Videographer, Metropolitan Police Service SO3(2) Photographic, London, September 1993 - December 1995 388
Chapter 17 - Forensic Photographer, Metropolitan Police Service 1 Area (Central London) January 1996 - January 1999 433
Chapter 18 - On Light Duties at Metropolitan Police Service Photographic HQ, Amelia Street, London SE17, January - May 1999 456
Chapter 19 - A Skeleton in the Closet Over the Water, Pre-Christmas 1998 461
Chapter 20 - Forensic Photography Instructor, Metropolitan Police Service Crime Academy Forensic Faculty, Hendon, London, May 1999-August 2004 467
PART 4: THE LANCASHIRE JOURNEY 515
Chapter 21 - South to North: Goodbye London, Hello Lancashire, August 2004 517
Chapter 22 - Getting into Medical Photography...Eventually 524
Chapter 23 - Malawi, Huddersfield University, Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and Libya, June 2011- November 2012 545
Chapter 24 - NHS Medical Photographer (February 2013 to date) and Gardiner Associates Training and Research (GATR) - Training the UK's Fire Investigators in Forensic Fire Scene Photography (2006 to date) 586
Chapter 25 - When a Mother Dies 613
Chapter 26 - Australia Family Holiday - Summer 2017 644
Chapter 27 - Sudden Hospital Admission: 21 April 2018 680
Chapter 28 - Tom Ray, Sepsis Survivor, Autumn 2018 699
Chapter 29 - Armistice Day Centenary, November 11th 2018 705
Chapter 30 - 2018: The Quickest Year So Far 710
Chapter 31 - The No Brexit Year - 2019 714
Chapter 32 - 2020: A New Decade Beckons 731
Chapter 33 - The Covid Crisis 759
Chapter 34 - Epilogue: What's Next? 797
About the Author 805
ISBN: 9781839755071
ISBN-10: 1839755075
Published: 22nd July 2021
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 822
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 6.05
Weight (kg): 1.65
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