I've been out photographing the bank holiday madness on the roads this weekend. First it was off to Hemel Hempstead and the M1 roadworks-not much happening there so I checked on the internet and found there was a big tailback on the M4 near Newbury. By the time I got there the M4 was clear and running normally-apparently there was a fatal road traffic accident at 3 a.m and it had taken until 10 a.m. to get things back to normal. So much for up to date information from the traffic sensors!
Surely the M25 could be relied upon for a nice bank holiday jam, I thought-wrongly as it turned out. By now things were a little worse at Hemel back on the M1 and so I was able to get a photo of the traffic crawling along there through the roadworks.

So Ronnie O'Sullivan is in the snooker finals. Reminds me of the time I photographed him at The Crucible in Sheffield. It was a portrait for The Telegraph, and was all done in a hurry in his hotel room. Ronnie was charming-a real nice guy and as I left we shook hands. I got the negs developed then scanned and wired the film before heading back down south. Next day I was going away on holiday to Italy and I was pleased to see my photo of the snooker ace used nicely on the sports pages.
Two weeks later I went out on another assignment. Reaching into my camera bag I found a set of keys-somehow in the rush to get the photos, Ronnie O'Sullivan's hotel room keys had got knocked into one of the pockets!