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Dead Metal – The A1 Lightning Jet

January 10, 2012

I haven’t been down the main A1(M) road past Newark the UK for a while, but last week, I was passing on my way to a photo shoot. I expected to see the usual sad sight of the derelict Lightning jet interceptor that’s been sitting there as long as I can remember, but when I [...]

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BBC Frozen Planet – Reality Television at it’s Best

December 1, 2011

If you know anything about me, you’ll know that the current genre of reality shows that are flooding our screens globally don’t work for me. I hate this ‘train crash TV’ with a passion, to the point that I rarely watch TV these days. I know, it’s cheap to make, budgets are tight and regardless [...]

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Mr Hi Res Vest & Colleagues

September 9, 2011

This video is around 16 minutes long. OK, I know, YouTube viewers get bored after 2 minutes, but watch it right through, it’s good. The video documents what happened when six professional photographers and accompanying videographers set out into London to photograph in a public place. It documents the two parties that are the bane [...]

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Watermarks? I hate em…

February 9, 2011

I removed watermarks from all of the images in my portfolio last year. I’m not a fan, I believe it degrades from the impact of the image and smacks of a petty mindedness on the photographer’s part, a Scrouge-like mentality that EVERY usage must be paid for with a big fat fee, which isn’t what [...]

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A Present For Car Photography Enthusiasts

December 1, 2010

I‘ve finally managed to get around to updating my web page all about bespoke car photography for private individuals. Regularly throughout the year, I’m booked to photograph private cars for car enthusiasts. Often, it’s bought as a gift for that hard-to-buy-for car nut who’s growing bored with the usual presents of car polish he doesn’t [...]

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Why I’m Not A Football Photographer…..

November 3, 2010

It’s always sad when a shoot you’d worked hard at gets canned for whatever reason, but it happens. Sometimes, it’s several months before the decision is taken, such as this job I shot in 2008 for the UEFA Cup Final Glasgow Rangers Vs St Petersburg football match. I’d be the first to admit that I’m [...]

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Two Film Makers, Two Beards, Two Great Opinions

October 5, 2010

Ok, there’s something strange going on here and I think we should be told… Within just a few days of each other, two leading proponents of independent film making and video DSLR’s have both posted on their blogs about the cost of film making. No big deal, I hear you say, money makes the world [...]

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Why I Didn’t Roll My Own Website

September 22, 2010

My new website design is gradually springing into life over the next ten days with several changes to make it easier for people to see what I do and also several exciting developments to help make it more future proof. Anyone who knows me will know that I regularly design websites for a wide variety [...]

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Shooting the Canon EOS 1D4 in my real world.

June 24, 2010

Last time I grabbed a Canon EOS 1D4, it was in a winter period when there was little happening on the car photography front, so the test I did back then concentrated on it’s low light capabilities. But I was still interested to see what it brought along to a car photo shoot, where outright [...]

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The Lonely Man…

March 16, 2010

The history of our armed forces is a subject close to my heart. Forget the politics, I just appreciate the sacrifice that ordinary people have made over the years. Last week, I was shooting background plates for a new website project for The Yorkshire Air Museum’s new site, going live in April. In the edit, [...]

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The ‘See In The Dark’ Canon EOS 1D Mk4..

March 15, 2010

There’s something about a brand new 1D series Canon when you first pick it up. My 1DS is still in great shape, but these days it’s got shiny edges, scruffs on the hotshoe and marks on the baseplate from endless tripods and rig shots and after a while, you take it for granted, just like [...]

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The Pain & Pleasure of Shooting Porsches

January 12, 2010

Like most of my work, there’s always an embargo for publication, so I’m often writing about things several months after the shoot. This Total 911 shoot is one such, it’s just been published in the Jan 2010 issue and you can buy a copy here. I owned a 930 Turbo a few years ago, but [...]

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Favourite Reads for the Holidays?

December 30, 2009

I was sad to see the passing of Borders Bookstores here in the UK. My local store always had a good range of photography books, plus there was a large shelf dedicated to international magazines, things like Excellence, the USA Porsche mag and some great film and photo mags. So my post-Christmas wandering took me [...]

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Tees Time Lapse

October 19, 2009

I’ve always been a time lapse fan, but never really got around to shooting any and to be honest, there’s no good reason why not! However, inspired by some of the stunning time lapse work by Tom over at Timescapes, I decided to borrow an intervalometer from the guys at The Flash Centre. Philip Bloom’s [...]

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Moving to Video for Stills Photographers – The Canon XH.

August 13, 2009

It’s something I needed to do. I’m moving more and more into shooting video and as I climbed the learning curve, it made my head hurt, but I really needed to do it. There are lots of stills photographers out there moving to video as an extra skill. Right now, there are great new oportinities [...]

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Social Media & Blogging – The Big Company Gamble?

June 30, 2009

I was having quite a long chat with a prospoective client last week about how their website wasn’t performing and how using blogging and other social media ideas would work well for them. The company spends a lot of time with their clients, they’re a motorsport company, but they’re in the ‘people’ business and they’re [...]

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My Brave New World II

June 29, 2009

Having got all excited in early June about starting the first of several new websites about cars, photography and driving, I paused for a moment to re-assess exactly what I was trying to do. This ‘moment’ turned out to be several weeks long, as I re-thought my whole plan about these sites and decided to [...]

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My Brave New World – Gulp…

June 3, 2009

My quest for global domination starts today. Well, no not really. But the websites I’ve been tinkering with for a while now are going to get vastly more attention starting right now. More and more people, both close freinds, clients, Twitter followers and others have been telling me to basically stop poncing around and just [...]

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Car Magazines and Video – part 2

April 24, 2009

My posting on car magazine websites and video content certainly generated interest. Many writers I spoke with and indeed one publisher reckoned it summed up the way they were feeling, but they also felt I was being a little harsh – not all videos are bad. Indeed, that’s true, so to put the record straight, [...]

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The Ice Driver Project III

March 2, 2009

Here’s an edit of the final footage. You can see a hi res version on SmugMug here. The learning curve for me as a first time user of Apple Final Cut Studio was a steep one and thanks go to various people for their help and advice in getting me up there. Most notable being [...]

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