PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIEANNE SAVAGE

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Daily photos : Hi, I don't do 365 projects and I don't force myself to put up a photo a day. This gallery is to show the best shots from recent shoots. I am trying to put up something different each day, so people don't get bored!! Thanks for looking at my pictures.

Welcome to a lifetime of pain : As a West Ham United fan.

I did a photo search for 'West Ham fans' and a guy had written "If you're a West Ham fan, then welcome to a lifetime of pain" - it seemed a very appropriate comment to me. My in-laws are from East London and are all die hard Hammers, so most of them know something of how that feels.

I have always loved football since I was a teenager. My first job was even reporting on football for the local rag. For some reason I got bored of it for a number of years - probably because I had no money, and going to a Southend United game was a rare treat; also because I spent years not being well enough to even consider going to somewhere as huge as Upton Park. It wasn't until a few years ago when I borrowed my friend's WH season ticket for two months that the sense of passion and excitement I'd had for the great British game as a teenager came flooding back and I was like - 'I let this go?'

I have met some great people at the Hammers and made some great friends. It's not just about the scoreline for me (although that helps) - but the whole routine of the thing: the pre-match build up, the camaraderie, the coach trips to this country's nether regions that previously existed only in myth (like Wigan). Even meeting my mates at the best chippy in the world before a game is just what I did when I was a teenager.

Plus as a photographer - I find the emotions on the faces of the people who attend these games truly fascinating. Hammers are a rollercoaster of emotions and results and one thing I have found over the last few years is that their fighting spirit is irrepressible.

Welcome to a lifetime of pain? Indeed.

Welcome to a lifetime of pain

Tiny Tears : 1970s Pallitoy Tiny Tears. Cost £1.75 from a charity shop.

I rescued this Tiny Tears from a life of unimaginable boredom and loneliness; she was lying face down in a wicker basket full of complete shat in a Barnado's Charity Shop in Brighton. She had grubby marks on her face and not a stitch of clothing. Her cruel previous owner had scribbled on her arms with felt tip pen, before throwing her away like a piece of rubbish. I have cleaned all the marks off using Mr Muscle floor wipes. I conditioned Tiny's hair with Dove moisturiser.

I am trying to get 'nice' clothes for Tiny Tears. She fits 3lb premature baby clothes and I have got a few things from my friend's daughter who was born early. Her first dress was a tiny baby sized dress from ASDA in Croydon. Baby Born clothes are slightly too big on her. Most of the commercial dolls' clothes are pretty tacky and cheap looking, so we're not going with them. Her black shoes are from a seller on Amazon. I have always thought of this doll as being a typical little girl, rather than a baby, so I would like her to have slightly more grown up clothes.

I used to have one the same as this when I was a kid, don't know what happened to it :-(

Les Misérables (Glasgow) : On holiday in Glasgow with f&f, February 2013. Absolutely superb place. Thanks to Bran for putting up with us. And for showing us all the greatest sites that Glasgow has to offer. Sewers, rats, freezing cold totally secluded and pitch black riverside walks, falling down concrete, horseshoe Celtic fans, and derelict buildings. Can't wait to go back.

Les Misérables (Glasgow)

Gallery Categories

Street : 13 galleries with 1067 photos

Grotty Seaside : 12 galleries with 145 photos

Film : 13 galleries with 369 photos

Shit Britain : 7 galleries with 128 photos

UK various : 13 galleries with 246 photos

Grandad's scans : 21 galleries with 379 photos

Grandad's scans

Photos : 7 galleries with 288 photos

Photography : 3 galleries with 98 photos

Abandoned military : 10 galleries with 139 photos

Abandoned military

Other : 9 galleries with 168 photos

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