February 2012

Guess The Furniture – Sweden Style

February 14, 2012

Sorting through some recce shots for some house and property features, I stumbled across this shot. Taken in Sweden a couple of years ago on a recce for a project that didn’t progress, it’s an odd looking object. But what is it? It was free standing, situated in the central hallway / staircase area of [...]

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Can Road Safety Be Beautiful?

February 12, 2012

Just a very brief post to share this with you. This is a beautiful, short and thought provoking commercial. Far too often, road safety commercials are dictatorial and accusing. This one by TV commercial director Roni Kliener makes the point very well. Glassboy from roni kleiner on Vimeo.

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Sir Stirling Moss, The Blonde and The Mystery of The Stolen Image

February 10, 2012

So today, this is a personal post. I’m feeling cross and also depressed. I’m generally a pretty upbeat kind of person, not given very often to the ‘glass half empty’ attitude. Whether I’m working on location or just going about my day to day stuff, I think that life’s too short. I’m a glass half [...]

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Blast From The Past…

February 2, 2012

… was the headline for this feature on a car I had fond memories of. Back in the 1980′s it was a quick machine, holding class records at pretty much every speed hillclimb course in the UK, driven by Tony Bancroft. Total 911 Magazine gave me free reign to write about the car, then and [...]

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You Can’t Beat a Good Smog Stock Picture. Or Is It?

February 1, 2012

This shot could quite easily be mistaken for something it’s not. Shoot south into the sun in the early part of the year, make sure there’s a power station chimney in the shot and you have the perfect aerial stock picture for use in greenhouse gas stories and many other topics. But that’s not the [...]

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