Back in the summer I had the good pleasure of photographing my friend and all round hero/rock god Robbie Phillips . Its the first time I’ve been able to shoot an adventure piece literally 5 mins away from my front door so that was a nice change . Robbie had been spending his one hour […]
I thought I’d start a series of blog posts around ‘Milestones’ , ie first front cover of a magazine, first publication, first major sales promotion image, first major commission , first major fashion shoot etc . These aren’t in chronological order , just the order they happened to come to mind in . I thought […]
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 […]
Back in June, the Ted Baker team contacted me asking if I’d be interested in doing a photoshoot for them . I was interested so we chatted on the phone and discussed the ideas they had , essentially an off road commute to work showing the varied terrain and conditions the suit was deigned to […]
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 […]
The Spring summer catalogue that I shot last Sept has just come out in the shops so I’m free now to share some of the images and the story behind the shoot. I was on my way back from NZ in July when I got an email from Mark Brigham asking me if I’d be […]
Back at the tail end of last year , I had just about enough of the cold dark days of the UK and Sarah and I decided to head for sunnier climes . Just after Christmas, as would be expected flight prices were expensive so we found something not too costly and headed for the […]
Its that time of year again , time to look back , assess, make plans , set intention for a new year. I actually enjoy the process of looking back , but of the top of my head I was struggling to think if I had taken any images that I was happy with till […]
Just got back from a ski touring trip to the beautiful Ecrins region of the French S Alps. Its a place I’ve visited many times before in winter for ice climbing and in the summer for rock climbing and white water paddling. It has some of the best paddling in France and seemingly rock everywhere […]
A few weeks ago , Elinchrom contacted me to ask if I’d be happy to be filmed during one of my photoshoots , in order to feature the advantages of using the new EL Skyport HS trigger. Now, I’m happy being filmed and talking to camera, it doesn’t really bother me so was happy to […]