12-days of pictures – day 7

In the middle of the year I worked with Lastolite / Manfrotto to create an article and images that demonstrated using the edge of the light. I asked fellow photographer Les to step in front of my camera for a few shots to illustrate the piece, what followed was a short fun shoot where we made some great …

12-days of pictures – day 6

I can hardly be called a photographic year if I don’t work with Emma at least a couple of times, so despite restrictions, 2021 proved to be a photographic year as I had several shoots with Emma. Similar to the first shoot after lockdown of 2020, Emma was again one of the first people I worked …

12-days of pictures – day 5

A shoot with Mystique Fay had been in discussion for months, and once we were released from lockdown we found a time slot to make it work. Faith had a really interesting look, and I wanted to try out a few lesser used lighting techniques for this shoot, including a single large umbrella with a diffuser. It …

12-days of pictures – day 4

Early summer I visited Shropshire to photograph a choir in an Abbey, and Josh in Ironbridge.  Ever since our shoot in 2020, Josh and me had been talking about a second shoot. Early summer I was visiting Shropshire and so it turned out that our calendars aligned and a second shoot happened. We started just about …

12-days of pictures – day 3

Summer dawned at I was so happy to work with Gabrielle on a shoot in a field of white poppies, that I also worked with her again a few weeks later on a hill top as the sun set. Imagine a field full of white poppies, a sunset and a superb red haired model. The …

12-days of pictures – day 2

Lockdown in the UK ended at the end of March 2021, and I was delighted to be out creating photos with other people after months of just not being allowed to be creative. This is the second of my 12-days of pictures, features Maia and was captured in some local woodland during April 2021. I’d met Maia via a …

12-days of pictures – day 1

The whole of 2021 was not what was expected, but fortunately when it was allowed I did get to create some photos I’m really proud of. Following my usual pattern this is the first of the 12-days of pictures for 2021. In the UK we started the year in lockdown due to COVID, and it …