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

50 Shades of Blackpool : And most of them grey

50 Shades of Blackpool

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)

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Street : 13 galleries with 1055 photos

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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 284 photos

Photography : 3 galleries with 98 photos

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Abandoned military

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