The With Love Project is dedicated to finding and documenting people who make things with a passion and purpose, those people who truly care about what they do and what they produce. I've been a fan since I stumbled across their site last year and I recently met one half of With Love, Rob, at the Good Life Experience when we won tickets through a their twitter competition. We shared a few beers and talked shop for an afternoon and we've been in touch ever since. As well as working on the With Love project, Rob is a talented and creative photographer with a background in film and television.
Here's how Rob kickstarts his day:
Working as a photographer can make it extremely difficult to get into any sort of routine. There are early starts, long drives in the dark to a location ready to shoot as the sunrises. I have to admit that although I will never enjoy rising at 4 or 5am there is nothing better than witnessing the day begin and feeling that warmth as the first rays of morning sun land on your face.
This being said whenever possible I do try and stick to a routine. I’m always the first up in our house and before I can think of doing anything I need a brew. For us there is only one option it has to be a cup of Yorkshire Tea brewed for 5 minutes in a teapot and served with milk (the milk has to be put in the cup before the tea is poured). Whilst the tea is brewing I take some time to jump online and check out what’s going on in the world via the BBC News app, twitter and instagram.
With my first cup of tea drunk, its straight in the shower, using the mint flavour Original Source to really wake myself up and prepare myself for the day ahead.
If I have an early shoot then it’s a quick bowl of cereal and off to the studio, on my bike weather permitting, if not I take my time. Ideally I will fry up some dry cured un-smoked back bacon from Frost Butchers in Chorlton, served between 2 slices of sourdough from the Barbican deli with either lashings of tommy K or with a runny fried egg. This will all be washed down with a coffee made on my stovetop from a single origin ground coffee from the awesome Rounton Coffee. There’s nothing like the smell of proper fried bacon and real roast coffee filling your kitchen to give you the perfect start to the day. Then it’s off to the office.
My office/studio is situated in Manchester’s NQ and if I’ve had to rush in then there is plenty of option for a coffee. There seems to be a new coffee shop opening every week in the NQ but I always seem to return to what is probably the original, Eastern Block, which is unusually a record/coffee shop and arguably makes one of the best coffees in Manchester.
Set up for the day with bacon and caffeine it’s down to work ready for whatever the day might throw at me.
This being said whenever possible I do try and stick to a routine. I’m always the first up in our house and before I can think of doing anything I need a brew. For us there is only one option it has to be a cup of Yorkshire Tea brewed for 5 minutes in a teapot and served with milk (the milk has to be put in the cup before the tea is poured). Whilst the tea is brewing I take some time to jump online and check out what’s going on in the world via the BBC News app, twitter and instagram.
With my first cup of tea drunk, its straight in the shower, using the mint flavour Original Source to really wake myself up and prepare myself for the day ahead.
If I have an early shoot then it’s a quick bowl of cereal and off to the studio, on my bike weather permitting, if not I take my time. Ideally I will fry up some dry cured un-smoked back bacon from Frost Butchers in Chorlton, served between 2 slices of sourdough from the Barbican deli with either lashings of tommy K or with a runny fried egg. This will all be washed down with a coffee made on my stovetop from a single origin ground coffee from the awesome Rounton Coffee. There’s nothing like the smell of proper fried bacon and real roast coffee filling your kitchen to give you the perfect start to the day. Then it’s off to the office.
My office/studio is situated in Manchester’s NQ and if I’ve had to rush in then there is plenty of option for a coffee. There seems to be a new coffee shop opening every week in the NQ but I always seem to return to what is probably the original, Eastern Block, which is unusually a record/coffee shop and arguably makes one of the best coffees in Manchester.
Set up for the day with bacon and caffeine it’s down to work ready for whatever the day might throw at me.
Thanks for sharing your morning routine, Rob!
Connect with Rob:
Twitter: @robevansphoto
Instagram: @robevansphoto
Connect with With Love:
Twitter: @withloveproject
Instagram: @withloveproject
Web: With Love
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