2011 – my baker’s dozen
Following my hijacking of Phil Coomes’ BBC “News in Pictures” blog last week, I thought I’d put my slightly revised selection from 2011 on here to continue the series that I began last year. I’m obviously tempting fate as I have one shift left for 2011 on the 31st, so calling these my favourites of [...]
The Gobstopper
Apologies for anyone wanting anything to do with photography in this post. August is upon us so precisely buggar all is happening. Having recently picked up drumsticks again for the first time in about 5 years, I was thinking back to my previous job as a drummer in the Sheffield band Elfin (insert any drummer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
