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Yearly Archives: 2013

The importance of family photographs

These are the Gladwin children whose parents brought them into my Caistor studio recently for a family shoot and some individual portraits. Each time I photograph someone’s children I am reminded  just how important it is to photograph my own too. It is astonishing to see how much my son has changed in the last […]

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Tranquility

I’m not normally one for giving titles to images but tranquility seems apposite in this case. I waited for the sun to set and the tide to roll-in and shot this apparent bridge to nowhere using a 20 second exposure and 9x neutral density filter. Meditation book publishers, please call for a quote!

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More retouching for The Times

One of the (few) improved skills I have acquired since spreading my wings out of newspaper photography has been using digital imaging. Every image a professional shoots requires this to some extent. Often it is just the mundane necessity of taking a RAW file and making it press-ready by altering colour density, sharpness etc. Most […]

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Food Photographer of the Year Awards 2013

At last I can show the image that made me a finalist in the Pink Lady Food Photographer Of The Year Awards. My section was “Food In The Field” and shows an escaped guinea fowl living wild in the Lincolnshire Wolds. The picture was taken while I was covering a pheasant shoot for a client. […]

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Margaret Thatcher

Spent yesterday doing imaging on Thatcher’s funeral for The Times. I photographed her countless times around the UK and especially in Downing Street. Unfortunately I can’t find the shots. They must all be filed in The Times Picture Library (my loft). I was in Downing Street when she announced her resignation and still have the […]

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