when hings go wronmg
It’s been said in the past that the collective term for photographers is “a whinge”. To be fair, that’s frighteningly accurate as there is nothing most press photographers enjoy more than a good whine about equipment, weather, dull jobs, uncooperative PR people etc. As you may have gathered from my previous posts, I always try [...]
The Sheffield Star
As another example of coincidental spookiness, following a conversation that I had with my parents at the weekend of who I’d like to shoot, this morning I found myself shaking hands with one of the people that I’d mentioned. World traveller and ex-Monty Python star Michael Palin was attending the launch of “Oxford Thinking” in [...]
Behind closed doors
As I said in the previous post, one of the biggest pleasures in this job is getting to see behind the scenes. This can be wildly different in it’s interpretation ranging from literally behind the scenes as a tv programme is being made to being allowed through the “Staff only” door in some important building. [...]
Live and Let Dive..
(AKA in at the deep end..) This weekend saw a return trip to my old home turf of Sheffield as I covered the 2nd FINA Diving World Series at Ponds Forge sports centre. It seems the chlorine gas exposure and relentless week-long shooting of the Manchester FINA shortcourse championships wasn’t quite enough to kill me [...]
Ban Ki-moon is coming to town..
In late April 2008, I got the chance to travel around West Africa with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. Visiting Ghana, Liberia, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire, the trip was a chance for “Spanky” and his wife to check out the work being done in some of the previously-unstable countries in the [...]
Who knows best..
So here’s a weird one.. Last night, I settled down in front of the tv with my girlfriend and decided to watch a recent Derren Brown “Trick or Treat” (Season 2, episode 3 for those who want to watch it..) Tonight’s guest was David Tennant, the current Dr. Who, and after randomly choosing to get [...]
Red carpet blues
When I started out in London, I used to return to Sheffield at the weekend and when I caught up with friends, one of the first questions was always “who’ve you been shooting recently?” After a while, I realised that often the smaller stories proved to be the most rewarding but all people want to [...]
What Adcuz wants, Adcuz gets..
In a move that MAY spell the end of the new sport of giggling at the email attackers, it’s time for a burst of News of the World-stylee “Name & Shame”. Well not quite as I’ll do the honourable thing and hide the names but here’s a selection of emails I’ve had regarding the horse [...]
The ongoing war against passion-driven stupidity
No, not of the sexual kind (although sometimes, I do wonder..) The passion I’m talking about is the love of horses. In my line of work of press photographer, I face a wide variety of subjects, stories and people on a daily basis. This is one of the main reasons why I love the job [...]
