Mark Greenmantle Photography

I’m in between shoots tonight, taking a break at The Melbourne Hotel before heading to the Hi-Fi new bar again. It opens tonight. Things are going well with my new client and I am finding them brilliant to work with.  I spent half of the afternoon shooting branding at The Hi-Fi’s new Vinyl bar and chatting to the creative director of the advertising firm I am working through.  It looks like I should be getting work shooting a lot of the gigs there in the next year. =]

Later tonight I will be back to the usual gig at 299, Saturday Trash is on and I will be battling the hoardes that frequent the venue. The venue itself has been cleaned up a great deal of late….

First though, food… in the midst of West End and the options for good food here is near endless, not always cheap but I do need to eat somewhere other than Indian Kitchen. The food there is damn well addictive. =]

I have seen a couple of different programs designed to cover all aspects of managing and marketing a photographic business. While sourcing a single program that could manage the entire day to day running of a photographic business I wonder how well these work in with Australian taxes, and the BAS requirements ect ect… I am keen on them for purposes of the follow up marketing call reminders, deadline management, late invoice reminder generators and other functionality that leads to better business management.

If anyone knows of a program/programs that suit these functions and is easily geared to Australian business standards I am keen to hear feedback.

In other news, I’m catching up on processing older shoots this week and will have the usual nightclub shots up on their usual locations by Friday night. I’ve been approached by a few different TAFE/UNI Photography students asking to interview me for part of their assessments. I’m open to this but still feel surprised they chose me to interview.

On Monday I will be able to catch up with Evil D of Morbid Angel, haven’t seen him since his tour with the Genitorturers. I bet their manager doesn’t think to arrange day trips around Brissy as they had with Richard and the Faith team. That man sure knows his reptiles. =)

Recent shots from the tour with Jeff Martin and The Armada are up already on www.thearmada.com