There's a chain on the high street these days called Ventures. It looks like a photographer's studio shop with funk but it is much more and much less than that.
We (Liz and I) paid £25 for an hour's studio time. This entitles us to one 7" x 5" picture after the hour in the studio.
The hour in the studio was great fun as we were put through a number of scenarios and activities in a variety of clothes - not shoes though. As shoe-lovers we thought carefully about our choice of footware only to be told to take them off. It feels weird wearing business suits with no shoes on. We had to plead for a shot with shoes on at the end.
Now here's the thing. The only preview of our shots will be a projected display, set to music, in a week's time. We will see no other proofs. The shots will not be available to us electroncally (so no new blog picture yet). We can only buy them in certain formats for living room display at costs of up to £2,000 each. An album of fifteen shots is £850 or so. We can't use them to send all our Christmas card receivers a nice picture of us. Stop tittering.
So we will see all these amazing images, which will almost certainly be better than any we have ever seen before, and will find our heart-strings tugged to want to buy them.
If you are a relatively poor family, passing the shop, and see the great family portraits in the window and the £25 price for a family introductory offer, you are probably going to end up making a decision to over-spend. Yes folks, the price list includes the credit terms.
We will probably over-spend. We can afford to make over-spending decisions these days. I could buy a new car within my Mastercard limit. But just beware of this highly skilled, customer-focused retail experience, gang. They'll get you. In the nicest posible way.
Liz said that for quality time staring into each other's eyes for an hour £25 was worth the money and we should do it every week.
1 comment:
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we banned credit cards and personal loans completely, or if the interest rates went stupidly high and stayed there. Would people get worse off, or, after some settling time, would we as a nation start to sort ourselves out, and actually get better off.
Re: the photos; wouldn't the cost effective thing in fact be to keep going back and getting 1 7"x5" a week. If you want digital, someone can scan it, and if you want enlargements someone else can do that, so long as the 7"x5" is good enough quality. Or do they have rules that stop you going back every week?
Ciao,
M
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