by Tim Gander

So long 2024

It’s that time of year again when I kick of a blog post with the line “It’s that time of year again.” Maybe I should find a new intro! Maybe next year…

So here’s a bit of a whistle-stop photographic round-up of my last 12 months. These aren’t all Pulitzer winners, but there’s an image from each month about which I have something I can say. This’ll work best if you expand the first image, then use the ‘Next’ button to navigate through. Enjoy!

Outdoor portrait of Katharine Tylko in a nature setting. She is wearing a pink coat, scarf and blouse and looking to camera.
January
A bearded race steward stands in the doorway of the Stewards; hut at Larkhill point-to-point while a female official crouches to write up the latest scores on w whiteboard which is affixed to the outside wall of the hut. He is wearing bowler hat and tweeds, she is in wellies and raincoat. The weigh-in room building is visible beyond.
February
A man in smart office shirt and glasses looks to a bank of three monitors showing rail movements and reports. An open-plan office of more workers and screens is visible beyond.
March
Portrait of a caucasian man in black leather jacket, black leather boots, glasses and jeans sitting casually on a sofa, smiling to camera.
April
A dog runs past a small building on a gravel track on Salisbury Plain.
May
Coldplay fans queue in Frome's Cheese & Grain car park. One woman has a small dog on a lead. The dog is wearing a blue cone round its neck.
June
A small tree made of polished plywood is covered in colourful ribbons and discs which have messages of support for the LGBTQ+ community written on them. Two shoppers are blurred walking past the tree.
July
A man sits slumped, sleeping with his head on his arms at an outdoor bar table with half-drunk glasses of beer near him. For a joke, his drinking buddies have covered him in playing cards, inserted them between his fingers, stacked them on his head and put a cigarette butt in his ear.
August
Evening at a small beachside bar in Brittany. A couple stand chatting outside the front, illuminated by the lights in the bar. A side window shows glasses and bottles within. There are stacked chairs against the outside and signs offering the food and drinks menu.
September
A patient is lying on a MRI machine bed, about to be slid in for a scan, while a medical nurse operates the controls.
October
It's night time and steam rises from the naturally heated waters of the Roman Baths in Bath, England. The surrounding stone structures are illuminated as people can be seen milling about.
November
A woman with short blonde hair wearing a bright crimson blouse laughs.
December

And finally of course, just to say a massive thank you to all my clients, collaborators and blog subscribers. I really appreciate your continued custom and support, and I wish you all the very best Christmas and New Year break. See you in 2025!

Tim

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 by Tim Gander

From BTS to ECG, MRI to ICB – it’s all happening here!

First of all, apologies for the extended radio silence, I’ve been having an unusually busy time. There are reasons behind this which I will save for another time, another blog post.

Suffice to say, Google might have been disappointed by my lack of posting; my handful of loyal readers on the other hand might have enjoyed the quiet.

While much of my recent photography work hasn’t lent itself to sharing, there is one completed project worth a mention: a series of images taken around the local(ish) area of newly-installed Community Diagnostics Centres. This is work I’ve undertaken for NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board.

The brief was to visit the various hospitals and health centres in Bath, Salisbury and Swindon where new diagnostics facilities have been set up so patients don’t have to travel so far for MRI scans, respiratory tests, CT scans and the like. It’s a multimillion pound investment making testing facilities more accessible to a greater number of people.

What is always rather fun these days is when I’m asked if a few Behind The Scenes (BTS) photos are ok. This usually involves me being photographed while I’m setting up and taking pictures.

I’m fine with this as it helps the client with their social media, and most are happy to give me a mention too.

This set includes the BTS photo followed by the shot I was setting up, and a couple of further images taken during my visit to the rather swanky Sulis Hospital in Peasedown St John near Bath.

 

A medical nurse sits at a electrocardiogram (ECG) machine while a photographer adjusts the medical light behind her. The photographer's camera is on a tripod in the foreground.
I'm gracefully reaching across to adjust the light.
A clinical nurse sits at an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine, looking at the screen and operating the controls. There is an examination bed in the background.
One of the results of my set-up to photograph the ECG machine.
The Sulis Hospital Bath reception area with comfy seating, reception desk and hanging net curtains designed to bring light into the space. I blurred nurse is walking through the scene.
The reception area at Sulis, Bath.
A male patient is on the MRI bed wearing a hospital gown and the head scanner piece. A female nurse is standing the other side of the bed operating the controls.
To avoid my equipment damaging the MRI, I could only take this shot from the doorway.
Screengrab from the News page of the NHS BANES Swindon and Wiltshire ICB website showing the announcement of the multi-million-pound investment in new community diagnostics centres
The client was able to quickly update their news page with one of the images from the set.
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