New Year, putting on The Ritz.

(photographs in this post: Howard Kingsnorth, art direction: LP)

The bad news is we're working New Year's Eve. The good news is we're at The Ritz, filming their grand New Year Ball into the early hours. With a Marching Band, Fireworks, and a Piper to usher in the big moment, it should be quite something.

It's the culmination of several shoot days over recent weeks, both still and moving, endeavouring to capture the very essence of Christmas at The Ritz. Not really hard labour, it has to be said.

And at last I'll get to see in New Year utterly sober!

Wishing you a resplendently creative 2008, Laurence