Never work with

Animals and small children seem to have crossed my bows rather alot recently. We had 12 'professional' cats in on a shoot last week, and let me tell you, they were no more professional than your average moggie, and probably got paid more than me.
Having seen a promo poster on the tube yesterday, I was reminded of a book cover done for the lovely Barking Blondes girls.
The brief had lots of controlled ideas, but I found that eventually, we had to just go with the flow and improvise a picture.

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