Snapshot was written for the Midlands Fretted Orchestra, and is dedicated to the group and their inspirational enthusiasm for their instruments and music. The title of this nostalgic little song refers to the now somewhat outdated term for a hastily taken photograph, and in writing it I had in mind the mixture of fleeting memories and bittersweet emotions that surely I am not alone in feeling in response to an old yellowing photo of a family scene, time-frozen face of a lost love, etc.
Snapshot for fretted orchestra also available in a version for solo guitar duration: 3'30'' commissioned by the Midlands Fretted Orchestra premiered by the Midlands Fretted Orchestra, Hagley, West Midlands, 4th Novemeber, 2007.
