A while back  I was asked to do a rush editorial photographic job for a business magazine. It was to photograph Peter MacGregor the boss of MacGregor Europe a haulage firm based in Lancashire.

The brief –  ’The photographer needs to get a photograph of  Ian with his fleet’.

Well it was Friday afternoon in mid December, it was cold and damp, I turned up and not unexpectedly for that time of year all the trucks where out on deliveries.
We experimented with  few photographs in his office with a map to show the areas covered, not really what I wanted but that’s all we had to work with.
I suggested we try something outside, I then noticed the roller shutter to the garage.

Fantastic!

I asked Ian to stand against it , arms folded, hands in pockets, you get the idea.

I decided to go with this photograph in the end, nice, simple and graphic.

The editor of the magazine loved it, the magazine designer loved it, unfortunately it never appeared, why?

The magazine was on deadline and they had hired in an assistant designer who just used the first photograph I had submitted, you guessed it  the map shots.

Gutted!!!