#257 IF A TEAR ESCAPES, IT SHOWS WE’RE HUMAN: PHOTOGRAPHING WITH COMPASSION
If ever you have thought; "How can I make a real difference to people with my photography," I think this episode is for you and I sense you’ll be moved by this special midweek edition. My conversation with photographer Nicky Heppenstall is an exceptionally personal story at times, yet equally an appeal by one of the original co-founders of Remember My Baby, a registered charity which offers a free gift of baby remembrance photography to parents experiencing the loss of their baby before, during or shortly after birth.
Patron of the Day today is April Brown and I’ll link to her Instagram, which is a love affair with her hometown of Sutton in Massachusetts. You are clearly a very patient wildlife photographer given that I have been trying to make pictures of a woodpecker in our garden who visits every morning and tap tap taps just ten feet away at the ants making their morning commute up our apple tree. He puts on a grand display but the moment I raise my camera… bfff, gone.
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