These are far from fancy photos, but even these required a fair bit of my camera gear, including remote-operated flashes and shoot-through umbrellas.

“What are you going to be doing when you grow up son? Dad, I want to be a professional card sorting photographer.”

However, talk to any intranet team and you will hear about how difficult it can be in practice to achieve this.

The reality is finding staff in organisations is difficult and in most organisations the staff directory has grown to be business critical.

This article outlines the main arguments for and against photos in staff directories and some tips on how to succeed.

Reasons for including photos

• Useful when matching names to faces, for an upcoming meeting, phone call or email conversation.
• Help new staff to get up to speed on ‘who’s who’ in the organisation, as well as familiarising them with key staff they are likely to interact with regularly.

[CMb 2009-19 written by Catherine Grenfell, read the full article]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a photo to my blog. Mostly it’s because photography has been forced to take a step back due to work commitments (it’s been a busy time!).

Still, the current round of international events has given me a few free weekends for a spot of photography.

The canals are an obvious (if stereotypical) feature of the Dutch landscape. Still, I love the canal-side restaurants in Utrecht, set into the walls themselves. Taken from 37 images, stitched together. Best viewed large.

(For those who are here just for serious posts, all the photographs are clearly titled as such, and so are easily skipped over.)

Walcott Street, Bath, England

Walking idly through Bath, stumbled across this stone arch, set into the cliff wall. Presumably some Victorian fancy, cobbled together from older ruins nearby.