27th June 2013, 12:33 PM
You'd think the advent of digital cameras with little screens on the back to show you the end product in advance rather than 2 weeks after the site's been backfilled (marvellous things!) would have improved matters, but if anything matters seem to be getting worse. On the up-side, it's now possible to disappear into the cabin with the digicam for a quick review and lots of private swearing, and then head back out to cautiously negotiate how perhaps the whole thing could have been done better if the photographer had tried this, this and this...and oh look, I seem to have accidentally taken some decent shots while suggesting all that... Bring back site photographers, they don't all have to be at the same standard as the likes of Mick Sharp (I couldn't handle the 2hrs being posed for 'working' shots at my age, but then again every exposure was publication standard), but at least we'd get some useable report pics