HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I'm sorry that this has been a long time coming, but here's the first post of 2009... My blog is something that has suffered a lot lately - I've been really busy with work, playing tennis, getting hangover, and having unscheduled trips to A&E caused by Football...

I'm shooting my first test of the year this weekend, as well as finally trying to get my website updated (something I didn't get hcance to do at Christmas, although I did get chance to do my Portfolios, to the delight of Epson and Hanehmuhle shareholders everywhere...).

Anyway, enough of the ramblings, Happy New Year to you all.

Night Night...

Here are a series of shots from out the windows of the various places I stayed in whilst I was in Tokyo....

Happy... Sacks

Whilst I'm editing/retouching my Japan work, I thought I'd share this just to be getting on with... These are the result of a shoot I did a couple of weeks ago for Wieden & Kennedy for a product Called Happy Sacks. They're available in a range of variants and were the brainchild of Tom Seymour. For more info, and to buy them, click here and scroll down the page to the link.

Happy Landings..

... I'm off to Tokyo for two weeks now - expect to see pictures on here when I get back.

Old School - No2

Following on from my last post, this another selection from the archive... This was a collaboration between me and the lovely Joe Bamber for 2007 D&AD Student Awards. The brief we undertook was to produce a factsheet showing the cradle-to-grave journey that a white good goes on... And this is what we came up with.

Old School - No1

I was having the obligatory clearout of stuff at my parents the other day and chanced across these portraits I shot right at the start of my second year at uni - I remember really liking these at the time, and thinking that I should maybe redo these but with a totally new twist on them sometime in the near future (I've recently acquired a stack of 10x8 film which might be handy for them)...

The models were friends from around the college, housemates, tutors etc.. Until I'd dug these out I'd forgotten that I'd ever taken them, and now I'm very tempted to put three of them (the top three) into my folio... Thoughts?

Testing

I've recently been testing again - for the first time in about a year.. Results to follow!

More Polaroid Shenanigans

I can't quite get over how beautiful these are in the flesh. Starting to get a bloody expensive way of shooting things though.

A classic...

.... evening of photography related drinking last night...

Still, almost got 5 hours sleep in

Birthday Card Making

Prior to my Mum and my Aunt's last birthday (natrually, you never mention numbers when women are concerned...) I took the decision to hand make cards by shooting elements on my SX-70... Due to some short sighted-ness on my part, I ended up stuck in the middle of nowhere (Lincoln) with the camera that always ejects two shots, and isn't always that reliable, as you can see from the shots above. Needless to say, they were probably the most expensive birthday cards in the world, ever...