Bless the sleeping angel that is my daughter. Already over 3 months now and still fascinating me every day!

Crime never pays unless of course it’s for a client. Specsavers came to me with a brief of trying to make a pair of handcuffs look “crime thrillery” and also make them look like a pair of specs at the same time! I said no problem will give it a go. The shot was for [...]

I was wondering if being born on an island has given me a natural affinity with getting wet! I often find myself standing in the sea to get a picture and now last week it was in a swimming pool on a commercial job for Specsavers Optical Group. Here i’m trying to avoid ruining my [...]

Very pleased with the results of our shoot on natural light portraiture. This was filmed for part of our forthcoming Advanced Digital Photography DVD and I wanted to demonstrate how simple it is to get shots like these if you just follow some basic techniques. It was a beautiful still evening and the autumn sun [...]

Recently I shot over 50 new business portraits for International Accountancy Firm – Price Waterhouse Coopers. The job went really well and we captured a look and feel that matched the brief. It’s often difficult to get portraits from people who are generally uncomfortable in front of the camera and achieving it in a short [...]

You wouldn’t think that pipes would make the most exciting subject material but a little creative studio lighting and product positioning can make almost anything look sexy, well almost anything.

Ex-professional model Kirsty recently had a beautiful baby boy and she approached me to see if I could take some pictures of her and her son. Having worked with Kirsty on many shoots over the years I was delighted to do something for her and offered to do the shoot for free when I had [...]

I have 3 Mac Pro towers in the studio; they all have back up drives. One of them, our video computer, has a Drobo automated back up system and the other two rely on us backing up manually as necessary. Unfortunately I had forgotten to do the backups recently and an internal hard drive failed [...]

We had a very busy week in the studio photographing a new range of gift products for the forthcoming Tatty Teddy Store, we had everything from mugs to bears to dressing gowns and pyjamas. Carte Blanche are one of the world’s largest greeting card and gift companies, their Tatty Teddy products are known the world [...]

As a commercial photographer you do get asked to photograph some unusual concepts and the shoot for IAG was quite an unusual one to say the least! The imaginative concepts from the design agency were great – the idea was simple; part of the IAG logo has a bright orange contemporary letter A in the [...]