We’re coming into the final week of shooting for Extreme lakeland and its been a roller coaster of a journey ( every journey though is described as a roller coaster , suppose it helps to build tension , ooh , what happened ? !!). But it has been great , battling against all odds and […]
I have just realised that I haven’t written a blog all year , partly I’ve been busy but also partly the way FB works has changed and the posts don’t get out to the same numbers that they used to but I felt I had to do a blog about the Extreme Scotland book that […]
If you go down to the shops today and come across an Ellis Brigham ‘ white book’ , well , thats what this blog is about . Earlier this year I was with the Ellis Brigham team shooting ski action and fashion in Khutai Austria. It was an 8 day shoot and I had been […]
I got an email recently from an aspiring photographer , I’ve had this sort of question a few times and it goes something like this : ” how do you get hired as an action sports photographer, or how does a photographer get their photos featured in magazines. Are there particular things they look […]
A few weeks ago I spent some time with Jordan and Naomi Buys , 2 friends that I’ve known through various photoshoots over the years and also 2 of the countries top climbers, the fact that they’re a handsome couple and very easy to photograph makes it a very easy job to shoot with them. […]
In March and April I was busy shooting a commission for a client, specifically the areas of Cumbria and North Wales. It was a very last minute thing that I got a call a week before and luckily I had time to shoot Cumbria before going to Morzine with Jared. The brief was to capture […]
I kind of look forward to this little trip down memory lane at the end of the year. I know I say and many others say that time seems to move faster as you get older. When I was a kid , a year would seem to last forever, now its a few trips here […]
Last week I was in Scotland doing a photo shoot for Rab for their spring summer 2015 range of clothing . We had scheduled 2 days shooting but as i was in Scotland for a week i thought I might head out to the western isles and shoot some landscapes. That was the plan until […]
North Wales is one of my favourite places to be , only a few hours drive from the flat lands and I’m actually surrounded by mountains , ok , its not the Alps but for such a small area it has an amazing number of stunning routes , both rock climbing and scrambling. This trip […]
A slightly different blog this time , I don’t usually teach much in my blog but I thought it might be an idea to share some of my thoughts about composition in adventure sports photography. Over the past year I’ve been being doing some talks at photographic societies and camera clubs where I talk about […]