At the request of Chief Operating Officer, Marco Truffelli, I covered free of charge their Annual Charity Ball in Dundee on 19 March 2010, which was held to raise funds for CHAS - Children’s Hospice Association Scotland. Nearly £30,000 was raised.

James Brown, Magician and Pickpocket was flown specially from Dorset for ‘pre dinner pickpocketing’. Absolutely terrific. Seeing is not believing in this case, with several card tricks for me on a one to one in a quite spell and I just couldn’t work them out.

And you can see the expression on the girls faces in this photo as they witnessed the lady’s watch filched without noticing it until it appeared behind her shoulders.

Over £32k was raised…

Craig Stevenson wins lifetime achievement award at the Hospitality Industry Awards dinner in Glasgow on 18 March at  the Radisson Blu Hotel Glasgow.

I was the photographer for the 2nd year at this glamorous event in Glasgow and took PR photographs that were required for immediate press release the next morning. Craig was a great subject and seeing a plate of bright green apples started to juggle with them.

From a series of several shots, this one below stood out for me. It was used in this article.

Umm…   I said ‘JUMP ‘ and, well, jump they did!

Cool – a hotel General Manager, a Director of a premier Scottish catering company, a hospitality consultant, the MD of a top events company, the PA of a chain of boutique hotels, the Editor of a Scottish catering magazine, top PR company MD, all managed on my command to hit the air at the same time. Took two shots – and they had barely had time to have a drink before the evening started.

I was covering the HIT Dinner in Glasgow for the second year - 18 March 2010.

I have just contracted with UKSG which originally stood for the United Kingdom Serials Group.

UKSG engages a broad cross-section of people concerned with the publication, distribution and use of scholarly and professional information.

The conference in April 2010 is for 700 delegates and is being held over 3 days at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

Been booked again for a fabulous hospitality industry dinner in Glasgow - this year at the Radisson Blu Hotel. Really fun event to do. These guys know how to party!

Err…some good entertainment too but guess these girls won’t be on again!

Images from last year…