Spent a couple of frustrating days in Germany last week trying to shoot the MSC Oscar, the largest container ship in the world, for the Swiss engineering company ABB who make the turbochargers that keep many of these leviathans on the move, before finally getting the shot we wanted.........in Felixstowe.
Oddly enough, two weeks after looking out to sea in Essex I found myself exactly the other side of the Channel near Wilhelmshaven in Germany......with some time to kill
Low tide, looking east across the remains of the 7th century fish traps. Nothing between me and Holland except a wind farm.......
Home made pappardelle drying in the kitchen - I love making pasta, it's dead easy and everyone thinks you're a genius. If only I could say the same of photography.
A nice cover and DPS in this month's Economia - the fruits of our rather stressful shoot described in the interview on Jan 9th. In the end of course, the only thing anyone remembers is whether or not the pictures were any good...........
When it was announced that Cats would be returning to the London stage and that the original team, Trevor Nunn, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Gillian Lynne and John Napier would be back together again after 34 years, The Really Useful Group asked me to do a portrait of them all in situ at the Palladium. It's usually a nightmare working in a theatre - no lights, no power, dozens of technicians and cast all trying get things done and a fifteen minute window during a tea break to get your shot and this was no exception, but I still get a buzz from being behind the scenes at one of these venues. Cats has been running continuously, somewhere on earth, since 1981 - four years longer than I've been working..........
Jamie Foster is the procurement director for Hitachi Rail and here he is being very good humoured about standing about in the cold at the draughty end of Platform 14 at St Pancras recently for a magazine shoot. Here's three facts about Hitachi. The name is derived from the Japanese for Sun (Hi) and Rise (Tachi). They are a multinational conglomerate with a turnover of around £60Bn. In addition to rather swish trains, they also manufacture the world's best selling vibrator. Not a lot of people know that......
After a recent cover shoot for Economia magazine, I was interviewed for Content Cloud about the shoot and life in general. You can read the full interview here: http://desk.thecontentcloud.net/inspiration/snap-happy#.VK_Bu2SsUyU
Back home for a weekend in Wiltshire - I remember buying petrol here when I was a kid........
I had stopped for lunch in a cafe in Faversham after a shoot at the Shepherd Neame brewery when an interesting looking guy on a bike stopped in for a lemon & ginger tea, and after a few minutes I asked if I could shoot a quick portrait of him. Fortunately, he said yes............
Just back from another trip to Sicily where I spent a couple of hours completely alone in the remains of this once beautiful hillside town, destroyed in an earthquake in 1968, and subsequently abandoned - a strange and poignant afternoon....
