I knew that using any camera equipment at the beach would be fraught with danger, but trying to set up a flash or two, the triggers and the lightstands, all the time having a small and very excited child playing in the sand, was all more difficult than I planned. Thankfully, there was very little [...]
This shot was taken without too much forethought and whilst under the influence of enough alcohol to make me confident enough to keep asking Michael to come back for one more shot. One more shot, I’ve got the lights right now Michael was extremely patient and he was more than capable of giving advice that [...]
Driving through London yesterday, I couldn’t resist a trip to Heathrow Airport while it is closed because of the eruptions from a volcano 1,000 miles away under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier in Iceland. I parked in a very deserted short stay car park and took the empty lifts and walkways from the car park to Terminal [...]
This is the platform of the Lyon St. Exupéry Airport Railway Station. We were flying out of Lyon from the St. Exupéry Airport and you cannot help but notice the amazing winged building that seems to be part of the airport but doesn’t seem to have any planes. If you have the time to wander [...]
We visited Waterperry Gardens, just east of Oxford, and we stayed longer than I thought we were going to. This meant that we were still around as the sun was just beginning to get low in the sky. Not sunset by any means, but the sunlight was coming from low camera right as we found [...]
St. Mary’s Church in Churchill was Designed by James Plowman of Oxford, the tower is a two-thirds copy of the tower of Magdalen College, Oxford, its hammerbeam roof a copy of the roof of Christ Church, Oxford, its buttresses are versions of those of the chapel of New College, Oxford, and its windows are based [...]
I’m attending an off-camera flash course in a couple of weeks time and I needed to take a still-life shot showing a background light and a main subject light. The shot above has one flash in a shoot through umbrella to camera left, a silver reflector to camera right and second flash with two different [...]
The final series of Lost starts this Friday on Sky 1 and I have to admit it, I have stuck with Lost all the way through. Every time it got more confusing and every time they manages to spin out the story longer to fit one more season in, I kept coming back for the [...]
I managed to catch this sunset portrait just as the last of the sun was fading away. I had already been to my first choice sunset location and wrapped up when I thought the sun had give all it could. It was so cold, I just bundled the camera kit into the back seat of [...]
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England has had a £61m update which has transformed the museum from a dark and rather dog-eared museum into an amazingly light and airy space that is bang up to date.