When I first saw the EOS R camera, it was fitted with a lens that I instantly thought was huge, and completely opposite to the idea that mirrorless cameras would mean smaller lighter camera bags. That lens was the RF 28-70mm F2L USM. Fast forward to 2022, and the lens is not any smaller or …

Right at the end of the year I managed to get to work with Xanthe Rose again. I cannot believe it was so long since we’d last made photos together. That was a Speedlite workshop in March 2020 just before the world was tipped upside down. Working with Xanthe Rose is a true pleasure, she’s a friendly …

Day 11 and time to share the 11th hour shoot, that appeared out of nowhere an hour before it started. I had a call from a local studio owner asking if I might be able to help out. Aa client had booked the studio and unfortunately their photographer had been “covid pinged” in the morning and could not …

I’ve been to a few social evenings meetings at Penguin Stu6ios in Thame during 2021. One fine evening I was fortunate to meet and get one or two shots of some fine gentlemen. Photographers are often used to solitary working processes, yes when there’s other people to photograph it is not solitary, but it’s not often that photographers …

I’d seen pictures of Lisa from another photographer and when she happened to be booked for a shoot in one of my local studios I took the opportunity have a swift shoot with her myself. This particular studio space is going to be looking quite familiar by now, Studio 88 in High Wycombe, but I’d rarely shot here using …

We get inspiration from other people all the time. I saw Yassy in another photographers photos and decided I wanted to work with her. Fast forward a few months and our first shoot fell in to place. Also Yassy wanted to try portrait modelling as well as photos of her special talent. I met up with …

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 …

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 …