My Day of Fame (Monday 13th July 2009)
Monday was a big day for me, as my bubble shots were in most of the UK national newspapers. Here's 6:
The Sun
The Mirror
The Daily Mail
The Times
The Daily Express
The Independent
If that wasn't enough, I've heard I was mentioned on GMTV, BBC News, and Good Morning America.
Going to be showing off about this for too long!
Looking online, and from reports from people on flickr (thanks everyone), I was also in Indian, Chinese, and Australian papers.
Can't imagine this happening again!
(Note that the press agent presented the story as a sequence of shots, when each of these photos is actually a different bubble. Many of the 'stories' also say I've high a "slow-motion" camera, which isn't completely true either. It made for a good story though - a good presentation.)
Oh, and PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE SEEN ME IN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPERS, as I'll try to get hold of them. Anyone got a copy of Monday's Metro?
Comments and faves
Febrifuge, helen sotiriadis, TomFalconer, Lake Li Sun, and 19 other people added this photo to their favorites.
GaryJS ™ (35 months ago | reply)
Wow! Congrats! I must have been living in a cave on Monday to have missed it with all that exposure (pardon the pun!)
Well deserved! Perseverance paid off! Remember us flickr folks now you're famous!
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Stephen Gunn (35 months ago | reply)
ITV's Loose woman too. Don't forget the women of Loose! Fancy doing some PR for me? lol. But seriously do you? :)
richard.heeks (35 months ago | reply)
@Stephen Gunn "Loose women"? I don't have a TV (seriously!) so just don't know TV people names. PR! LOL. I can't even get people to reply to my comments on Facebook. But seriously, a press agency saw my photos on flickr and then distributed a story, so they did ALL the PR here, not me.
Stephen Gunn (35 months ago | reply)
It was my girlfriend that called to say to turn it on. She has this crazy idea I speak to every photographer in Britain and that I'd know you lol. Kidden. But I suppose flickr is pretty cool that way. You have some pretty nice stuff in your stream mate, besides the bubbles, obviously. What is it you do for a living?
nh! (35 months ago | reply)
felicitaciones! es un trabajo genial, es una suerte que lo difundan
Adrian Midgley (35 months ago | reply)
Impressive. You got the Express & Echo as well?
Fifi 1968 (35 months ago | reply)
Oh wow Richard, congratulations, that's terrific! I missed it as well, didn't read a paper or see much TV on Monday. You won't forget your lowly contacts now you're famous, will you... (btw I hope Sarah got a mention lol!) :-)))
sickmouthy (35 months ago | reply)
Awesome, well done - I just phoned my dad and he saw it in the Express.
S Bavido (35 months ago | reply)
Congrats. A very well deserved honor.
Candy~ Feiyu Zhang (35 months ago | reply)
I saw your photos on many Chinese news website.
Therefore, I go back to flickr to search your name then I found you.
The photos are very beautiful and magic.
Here I give you some Chinese websites which show your photos.
post.news.tom.com/s/9A000AB21070_1.html
sc.xinhuanet.com/content/2009-07/14/content_1 7086390.htm
www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&q=%e9%ab%98 %e9%80%9f%e6...
richard.heeks (35 months ago | reply)
Many thanks Candy. Great to see these.
steeple_jackuk (35 months ago | reply)
Well deserved, mate these are awesom how on earth did you get them? Did the papers get permission to print and did they pay you? Its not everyday your ten minutes of fame arrive in one go.
Great shots well done and well deserved.
Sj
richard.heeks (35 months ago | reply)
HI steeple_jackuk. Yes, a press agent distributed the pictures to the newspapers. I gave the press agent some info as to how I took the shots etc, which didn't fully come across in the newspapers, but they got the gist of it. It was all about the pictures, so any text was just background really. I'm splitting the profits with the press agent.
Serge Melki (35 months ago | reply)
Congratulations, you deserve it.
i know how difficult it is to make those shots. ;-)
sheriberi1 (35 months ago | reply)
Contratulations Richard!
I'm so thrilled for you. Quite the feather, you know?
All of this publicity is so rightly deserved.
Your dedication, patience and tenacity have served you well.
I hope you gave Sarah a great big hug for her contribution. :)
richard.heeks (35 months ago | reply)
Thanks all. Thanks sheriberi1. Kind comments.
barbhogan (35 months ago | reply)
OMG! Look at you, this is so cool! Congratulations Richard!
helen sotiriadis (35 months ago | reply)
i only saw you on google reader's 'cool recommendations' that i'd previously mentioned.
your images are brilliant and i'm so happy to see them getting this much-deserved attention.
congratulations!
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sarah bieda (35 months ago | reply)
I saw you today on AOL in the states, under "far out images" image 11 of 40. I have seen you on flickr before and recognized your name.
Congrats! small world.
news.aol.com/article/mudslide-destroys-home-3 -missing/577...|main|dl1|link6|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Fa rticle%2Fmudslide-destroys-home-3-missing%2F5 77594
chenilife (35 months ago | reply)
many congrats, i like your photo very much.
luzhouzjy (35 months ago | reply)
yes，your photos are so special and there are so many people konw you in China now，you are famous.
TomFalconer (35 months ago | reply)
Wow, man congratulations! Very much deserved, no one else out there is doing this, certainly not at your level anyway. Congrats again, I'll keep my eyes open for them over here!
A Farsa (35 months ago | reply)
Hi!
Just to let you know that your photograph was publish in Portugal as well, in a magazin named "Sábado". It was in there that I saw it - it is very good, very beautiful.
Well done.
Tânia.
heycarrieann331 (35 months ago | reply)
Oh wow! Good for you! Congratulations! And congrats on Explore!
alliefelt (35 months ago | reply)
congratulations!!!! this is well deserved... those photos ought to be shared and given lots of attnetion
marvelous work!
Lake Li Sun (35 months ago | reply)
This is so great Richard! I am very pleased to hear about this! :)
"King of Pop" is too funny. Strange timing...those pics on the paper look really good too!
Dare I say I'm proud of ya! :)
iamspart (35 months ago | reply)
Congratulations! Did you make much money from this??
richard.heeks (35 months ago | reply)
Hi iamspart. I don't know how much I've made from this yet. I'll be getting a sales report in a couple of weeks.
Tigeress_27 (35 months ago | reply)
I saw your pics in the paper :) very cool
shortstuff411 (35 months ago | reply)
Congrats!
I've just discovered your bubbles on flickr, me and my son (7yrs old and loves science) think they are incredible, we will be keeping up with your pics on here!! :D
Keep them coming!
Daz /SWAN MAN (35 months ago | reply)
congrats.
did see this in the paper
hope you got well paid for it!!!!!!
you know what they say about fame, it only lasts so long until the bubble bursts!!!!
S Bavido (35 months ago | reply)
I also saw these on thepiratebay.org They were posted without your name though.
heaths_pics (34 months ago | reply)
Congratulations! what an great accomplishment :)
richard.heeks (34 months ago | reply)
Thanks
Angel of Retribution. (31 months ago | reply)
congratulations ;)
pr.bear (29 months ago | reply)
It's amazing work! Congratulations.
DeadElephantRock (29 months ago | reply)
Congratulations!!
¨¨°º¤ø*Rodeo Queen*ø¤º°¨¨ (29 months ago | reply)
Good job i love your pictures they are so awsome.
Die Himmelsträumerin (29 months ago | reply)
Congratulation! They're amazing!
凰 (29 months ago | reply)
congratulations!! great job!!
Steven Gerrard xD (29 months ago | reply)
wow
Brylove_13 (Away) (25 months ago | reply)
Wow! Well done you! :)
stephaniefarber (19 months ago | reply)
amazing, congratulations!
Judi FitzPatrick Studio (11 months ago | reply)
cool, congrats!
Joe__M (7 months ago | reply)
I only just saw this shot, didnt realise just how famous your bubbles were! Very well done to you!
Some of your individual bubble photos have nearly 90'000 views!! Wowsers!
richard.heeks (7 months ago | reply)
Thanks Joe. Yep, they really drew in views for a while. They've had some insane viewing numbers on blogs too. I sometimes wonder how many views they've had in all, and then I give up trying to think. I once got 200,000 views over a couple days on Redbubble, no doubt due to a blog. Pretty weird to watch those numbers stack up. And the TV programmes, like Good Morning America and GMTV.
Joe__M (7 months ago | reply)
Thats an amazing amount of views! My most in a day is 500, Ha! And my photo with the most views ever has just reached 1500, which I thought was quite impressive, but now it seems quite pathetic! lol
You've definitely inspired me to try some photo's involving bubbles! They are great! My new Canon EOS 7D is capable of shooting 8 frames per second, so I reckon I have a fair chance of capturing a 'pop' if I just hold the shutter down :-)
richard.heeks (7 months ago | reply)
Yes, the 7D would be ideal. I think a small bubble takes about 1/100th of a second to go through its whole pop cycle. 8fps is pretty good - gives you a great chance. Good luck Joe.