Richard Mills
On the 16th of July, word began to get through of the death of former Times colleague and friend Richard Mills. He died on the 14th of July 2008 while on assignment in Zimbabwe. Due to the delicate situation involved with getting Richard out of the country, news of his death was held until this [...]
Super Cooper
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of getting to shoot Alice Cooper at the ExCel centre in London. I’m sure it must be rather an odd gig for him as he was essentially the “turn” to entertain the crowds at the British Motor Show but he still put on a top show. Considering this guy is [...]
Prepare for take-off..
I have found the answer, people. If you want to do something, whinge about it in your blog and then it’ll happen. On Tuesday morning, I finally got to take to the skies in an air-filled vessel! Huzzah! After the obligatory Hindenberg jokes with the other journalists that were flying, we went for our emergency [...]
Well and truly grounded.
I think I may be cursed. Despite having a keen sense of adventure and love of discovery, the Gods of hot air-related flight clearly think I’m not all that. For Christmas, my lovely lady bought me the gift of flight. To be precise, a hot air balloon flight as dawn breaks over a South African [...]
Out of the frying pan..
Of all the protests that I’ve covered since being in London, surely the prize for most unique chant must go to the “Citizens not Strangers” rally in Parliament Square on Friday; “What do we want?” “To pay taxes!” “When do we want to?” “Now!” A slightly different cry from the poll tax riots of old.. [...]
Capture the high notes
Music photography has always been an enjoyable sideline since my days of drumming, back in Sheffield. Shooting the behind-the-scenes japes of our tour bus and arranging our promo shots planted the seed of having fun with the world of live music and trying to visually record it. Powerful shots are highly dependent on the artist [...]
The Colour of Magic? Erm.. Mauve?
I’m not sure how obvious it is with some of my dodgy colour post-production but I was born with the decided photographic hindrance of being colour-blind. My parents first realised when we were on a family holiday in France and when they pointed to the beautiful poppy field out of the right window of the [...]
Glasto, the Summer Wine(house)
Ahh, Glastonbury number 6. After enjoying the heat of 1995, then four other randomly soaked years in between, I’d promised the rest of Team Glasto that 2008 would be dry and I was right! Yay! I RULE! (aside from a lot of rain at the start..) *cough* Despite lugging my poncho and boots from the [...]
