Lots of group courses available for 2016!
Here’s the dates for our birds of prey photography workshops. Check out our training days tab for a link to book a place.
Latest magazine cover image
It’s been a manic end to 2015, which has seen no updates to my blog, for which I am sorry. 2016 has however started with a manic few weeks too, so I’ve so much to update on! To start with, here’s my latest magazine cover image of The Shuttleworth Collection DH-88 Comet on the front of Pilot.
2015 group training days with partners around Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire
Sunset for mid-summer
Whilst covering the mid-summers eve concert in The Shuttleworth Collection’s Swiss Garden, there was the most wonderful sunset. I popped around to the front of the cottage to grab this shot. I didn’t have a tripod, and only had my 580EX II flashgun, so it wasn’t easy to get the shot.
Group training in The Swiss Gardens
My first group training day was a huge success in The Swiss Garden at Shuttleworth. There’s another date this coming week and two more for later in the year. Visit the Shuttleworth website at www.shuttleworth.org/events for more details.
Family portraits in Norfolk
Despite being based in Bedfordshire, I travel a lot to do my work, and it’s not just aviation and commercial jobs that see me travelling. I spend a weekend up in Norfolk the other week to capture a range a family portraits for a family who were celebrating a parents birthday. I had four groups of families to photograph, each of whom had a different set of characters. It’s was a great session of photography with so many options to play with. 🙂
A challenge!
I’ve shot a lot of air-to-air images in my time, but none have been as challenging as my shoot a few weeks back! I was tasked with photographing an RAF Hawk trainer, alongside a WWI Bristol F2b Fighter from The Shuttleworth Collection. The problem is that, the Bristol Fighter fly’s at a maximum speed of around 85mph, and the Hawk has a minimum speed of 140mph with the gear and flaps down. This means that the only way to get both in the same shot, is to have the Hawk do a fly by. In normal circumstances, I would use a fast shutter speed to ‘Freeze’ the Hawk as it flew past. However.. a fast shutter speed will freeze the propeller on the F2b, so I had to find a happy medium, that allowed a bit of prop movement, but also kept the Hawk from blurring as it flew past. I’m happy that it worked out, as there was a lot of planning involved and some great flying by all the pilots involved. 🙂
Tasty work!
I’ve photographed a lot of different things this week, but there’s something that I love about photographing food! 🙂
Swiss Garden Photography day on Saturday 16th May
My first photography workshop of 2015, is at The Shuttleworth Collection’s Swiss Garden. It’s a stunning place to teach photography, and I can’t wait! 🙂
Commercial photography for Potton based beauty business.
I’ve been at the lovely Cleopatra’s Beauty Consultants today in Potton, shooting some images of the premises for The Villager magazine. 🙂