For the last two & a half years I have been pretty disorganised with my photography gear. 

I never had a central location to store all my gear. much to my wife’s annoyance, the stuff is stored all over the house. I usually keep the camera on the kitchen top; it’s handy & I can grab it if I see something in the garden or flying over the house. Then there are probably a couple of lenses, plus the remote release cord, maybe some filters.

In the bedroom I keep lenses, filters, flashguns, odds & ends etc in a plastic crate on my wife’s dressing table. At the bottom of the bed is my studio lighting, light stands & photography magazines. I also keep the tripod & monopod there (when I’ve bothered to carry them upstairs).

In the utility room is a whole pile of photos waiting to be filed plus a few folders of pics.

We decided to get some cupboards for the play room where my wife said I could put all my gear. The downside was that before I could install them I had to decorate the room first.

I spent 3 days last week decorating the room & then we planned a holiday to Ikea to get the cupboards. You have to go at least twice, the first time to get all the bits & the second time to return the one pack which is missing bits. So it was that I returned at the weekend & got a complete kit.

Anyway, the cupboards are up. All my gear is centrally stored out of the way & we’ve even got a little gizmo shelf where I can plug in battery & phone chargers.

I wonder how long it will be before the camera is back on the kitchen top…