Before the advent of digital photography I spent many hours of my life waiting for polaroids to process whilst setting up shoots. Often the subject was me, replaced later when everything was set, by someone more significant. I used to have some of these pinned up in my office and recently found several of them, along with some other bits and pieces, in a box file in my storage unit so I recreated the old pinboard along with, where possible, the results of the shoot that followed.

More or less from the top L-R: AAA pass for the Chilis Stadium Arcadium Tour; musician Steve Earle who actually fell asleep during the shoot (opiates may have been involved); Jools Holland at home in South London with a Bentley; set up for F1 neurosurgeon Prof. Sid Watkins; outside the Ferrari factory in Italy; set up for Trevor Brooking at Upton Park; set up for Lord Kirkham at DFS; at the Maranello test track with the lovely Magnetti Marelli logo; a Penske truck on the docks in Antwerp - yes, we just drove straight in and parked it there; a sports car whose fish-like front end sparked the angling theme; with Harvey Postlethwaite’s Ferrari Lusso; in Namibia for Land Rover with a (tame) cheetah; Joanna Lumley at home; waiting for Keke Rosberg at a track somewhere in Germany - note unusual use of rental car parcel shelf as a flag; on Miami Beach with Mark Blundell; set up for Harry Hill; an 1912 NAG car that I was allowed to drive back from the shoot on the Yorkshire moors; set up in a D Type - can’t remember why; set up in Florida for Dario Franchitti; shooting a book on sailing in Cyprus; set up for Lord March at Goodwood House; Chris Waddle at Hillsborough; Tony Slattery and Helen Lederer for the Telegraph Magazine.