Every so often you get plagued with what in the business are called no shows - outside the business "time wasters" - people who arrange a shoot and then either don't reply as the day comes or don't show up, make excuses, - you get the idea, What these people don't seem to understand is it puts the whole "absolute beginners and shoots like it into question. They can only ever be viable if people respect my time as much as I respect thier's.

Lets however be clear here - genuine reasons not to make it are fine - what I hate is those who just go silent and then even worse apply again!!

Last Sunday was a wasted shoot day due to five yes five different people not making it...it was actually more but 3 were genuine reasons of family emergency and therefore are quite understandable. Each one had indicated they wanted to shoot that day - three have yet to contact me as to why it fell through!!