Had a wicked shoot with Pete Dadds photographer for Channel 4 earlier this week. One of the things I have always prided myself on is my organisation and reliability. I have always built ‘safety’ time into my journey to allow for train delays, strikes, cancellations, getting lost, etc. This can be irritating when you turn up to shoots 30 minutes early on a regular basis and you could really have benefitted from the extra sleep. However when you have the kind of monumental cock up I suffered for the first time ever and you turn up at the right road but in the wrong part of London… (guess which in the picture is the right one and which one I ended up at) suddenly you become grateful for the 2 years you have spent turning up early.
Google had failed me and I had failed to organise to my usual impeccable standard after a particularly late return from a shoot. So upon realising what was before me were residential blocks and not the channel 4 studios I dashed back across London sprinting between Tube stations and arrived 2 minutes late. I wasn’t happy with being late at all, but lesson learnt.
And we had a wicked, effecient shoot to redeem the day. All is well that ends well.