Photographing the LOROS Twilight Walk

LOROS Twilight Walk & balloon release

One of the benefits of taking photos for the Leicester Mercury is having the opportunity to attend a variety of events; last night I was at the football stadium for the annual LOROS Hospice fundraisers' Twilight Walk and balloon release.

LOROS fundraisers are a hard working lot. I see them a number of times through the year but the Twilight Walk is always colourful, particularly with this year's Hawaiian theme.

Cancer effects many people and touches so many lives that it's good to know volunteers can have fun whilst raising money essential to keep our Leicester & Leicestershire hospice doing its valuable work. 
I'm only glad I was there to take photos and not to run six miles around the city centre!

Happy Birthday Patrick

The Birthday Boy; Patrick at 50

Been working every day this past week on my SECRET (!) project. I'm sworn to secrecy so can't breath a word but if it comes off it'll be brilliant! 

Promise to let the cat out of the bag as soon as I'm allowed :)

Something I can talk about is the 50th birthday party held yesterday for Patrick McCracken in Melton Mowbray. 

Patrick is joint-founder of 103 The Eye, Melton's community radio station, and since my agent works on the station I went across with Max to help Patrick celebrate with the assistance of many of the station's broadcasters, volunteers and listeners.

It was a good evening and, as you can see, the birthday boy thoroughly enjoyed himself!