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Hot chocolate muscles

The Gay Photographers Network was having its monthly meeting on Wednesday night. For the second time this year, the event was dedicated to "meeting the models" (you can see my pictures of last time here ). This time rather then the free-for-all we had last time, slots had to be booked in advance to be able to shoot one of the models on offers. Feeling that I would be too self-conscious with people around, I had not booked but on the night some slots had become available and I decided to give a go. I was paired with lovely young black man with a very impressive physique indeed. Daniel has very lean, define muscles and a lovely silky skin which reflects the light beautifully. Despite my worries, I quickly got engrossed in the job at end and, while there was little opportunity for being really creative, and this being only my third foray into studio work, I think I managed to produce a fairly decent set of images in the 20 min or so that I was with Daniel. The images ca

Complaint to BBC News for its coverage of the marriage equality debate

As the Catholic Church produces yet another letter try and bolster support among its flock for its opposition marriage equality, the BBC (Radio 4 in any case) is giving the "news", once again, much prominence in its news bulletin. This has prompted me to make the following complaint. I am very disappointed by the way the marriage equality debate is covered across the BBC news channels. It seems that the subject only makes it to your headlines when a religious body (usually the Catholic Church) somehow acts to oppose the proposals. Certainly no similar coverage, if at all, is given to positive news from supporters of the proposition. I am not simply talking here of having someone criticising the actions of said religious body when the news is reported. In any case, the propositions only concern civil marriage, the views of religious bodies are therefore not directly relevant to the whole debate and should certainly not be given such prominence as you deem fit to give them