Beltane fire festival
I first came across the Beltane Fire festival when flicking through a national geographic book . I’m a sucker for strong visuals and when i saw the the festival was in Edinburgh , a mere hop and a skip on easy jet from stansted, flights were booked and preps made to go see this thing […]
Beer and Hymns
An interesting afternoon at Boxted parish church photographing the first of their beer and hymns events. Horizontal rain meant activities stayed indoors but peeps were happy and much beer and hymns were enjoyed . Even the organist enjoyed a bit of bishops finger ; ) .High iso and the 70-200 used , difficult shooting and […]
Old Hall
Had a morning at old Hall for the milking of the cows . The great thing about photography is it can take you to situations that are outside your normal day to day experience . For those that don’t know of Old Hall , its an old monastery that for many years has been home […]
lifestyle photoshoot
Had a very enjoyable afternoon with Rachel and Emily photographing them at their home. Used a combination of daylight , reflectors , backlight with speed lite and flash on a boom with soft box in the different shots . The girls are naturals , easy to work with and needed very little direction to pose […]
A New York state of Mind
By state of mind i mean jet lagged having not slept for 48 hours so if this rambles a bit and is slightly delirious , thats why . 5 days in New York avec la familie and was amazed that where we were staying was right next to ground zero and we overlooked all the […]
Chefchaouen
The famous blue medina of Northern morocco is also the centre of its hash production . I was keen to get there for the photographic opportunities and was told it was a 2 hour drive from Fez . After getting lost in leaving fez for 1.5 hours , i was actually thinking of giving up […]
Africa for the weekend !
It does seem bonkers to go to Morocco for 3 days but i had a chance , a cheap flight and i’ve always wanted to vist morocco, and now it seems adam and I will be climbing here in october as well , so twice in one year ! In fez this morning , hoped […]
Flash and painting with light
A few funky shots from an experimental evening up at east bergholt church with Elisha. The first shot is with 2 flashes , on manual mode with me holding a 2M boom while shooting and a second flash lighting up the door . The second shot is some light painting with Elisha looking like something […]
Photo of the week UKC
Really pleased that the photo of Colin on the arete of archangel is photo of the week on UKC with over 170 votes . Bowled over by the response to that shot but very pleased none the less .
Snow kiting Switzerland
Just returned from an amazing photo shoot in brig with pascal nessier and his group Of pro riders . Was my first time snowkiting and its incredibly tiring so I was glad to be able to shoot and give my quads a rest. The light was good later in the morning so i would kite […]