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Yearly Archives: 2014

Tuition Vouchers – not just for Christmas

Wondering what all those dials and menu settings do on that new digital camera? Know someone trying to improve their skills? I can help you take charge of the camera, cut through the lingo and make it do what YOU want it to do. Lessons are one-to one and entirely tailored to your requirements whatever […]

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The Smiths in 1984

I recently scanned five rolls of  film I shot of The Smiths playing Sheffield City Hall in March 1984 whilst I was at college studying Photojournalism. I had heard “Hand in Glove” and just a couple of others when I knocked on the stage door and asked their manager if I could take some pictures. I was led past the band […]

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Powell in glossy from Brazil

Many thanks to Ricardo & Paula for sending me this impressive magazine from Brazil featuring my photographs of their wedding. This tip-top “ONTOP” magazine features an eight page spread of 37 frames. Eagle-eyed readers will notice me listed in Portuguese as Buckingham Palace’s official photographer!    

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Richard Attenborough

I had the pleasure of photographing the recently departed Richard Attenborough a few times. He was delightful. The last time we met we walked down a church path chatting with his arm around my shoulder. He surely couldn’t have remembered me and yet he treated me like an old pal. A charismatic and forcefully charming […]

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Sir Peter Blake

I recently visited the Royal Academy of Arts and bumped into pop artist Sir Peter Blake so took a few shots of him with some recent works including his Beano lithograph celebrating famous cartoon characters leaving the Dundee school that inspired the Bash Street Kids. Weirdly it was almost exactly 20 years since I last […]

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