My latest two jobs have been no shows where for one reason or another the subject never showed up.
Seeing as I get paid any way you'd expect I would consider it easy money and not think any more of it.
But I have to admit to a certain dissatisfaction when that happens-I'd much rather be shooting the portrait I'd been sent to get.

This is nearly always a quiet time of year when accounting and scanning old stock photos are foremost on my mind.
The accounting is the really boring bit, but looking at old negs from jobs I covered years ago is always a bit like rummaging in a lucky dip.
Here are two from the 90's which show the Castle Lodge at Ludlow.Its a sixteenth century Elizabethan Mansion House with fantastic oak carvings. Once the home of Catherine of Aragon, it has been privately owned throughout its history and after a spell as a hotel was finally re-opened to the public in 1999 when I took these photos. The ghost of Catherine, (famously one of Henry VIII's six wives who did survive complete with her head), is said to haunt the building to this day-although she was a no-show during my visit.