Before I start … here’s my summer
If you don’t know me, my name is John Middleton and I have been Prescot Cables FC club photographer since 2018. Prescot Cables are in the third tier of the English football leagues, situated in Prescot, Merseyside. My role is in a volunteer capacity.  This season could have been so different for me. For some time during last season, I was having a crisis of faith in my ability and worth that I seriously considered packing it all in. Selling my gear, archiving all of my work away, and closing my social media accounts. Goodnight, Vienna. I very nearly carried this forward; emails were prepared and sent, reconsidered, reconsidered again, and finally withdrawn. It’s the closest I have ever come in my 40 years of photography to doing this. In photography, I had done it all: portraits, weddings, christenings, babies, food, music, landscapes, and sport, plus a few others. A lot of you may be aware that for a number of years, I have been fighting with my mental health problems. For someo...