Went to see Max Décharné and Sam Leith at Crouch End Waterstones last night to hear them talk about their latest books, slang, the English language and dangling modifiers! A really interesting discussion and an enjoyable evening.
There is a brilliant little app called Prisma that has recently been released on Android and Apple for your phones/pads and I've been having a play with it this afternoon whilst uploading the edited files from a photo shoot. Not having a willing victim... err... subject... to take a photo of I did the rare thing [...]
It is with great sadness and disappointment that I have to report that I won’t be at the Crime Festival in Harrogate this year. After four (three in an official capacity) happy years covering the event, HIF has decided to try someone new for their 50th anniversary celebrations. I'm gutted that I won't be there [...]
A photographer friend of mine just sent me a photo she snapped on her mobile, its a picture of part of a page in today's Evening Standard (Thurs 17th Dec). As you can see in the image (below) it's one of my photographs of Cathi Unsworth taken at the launch of her book Weirdo. Brilliant, [...]
You've caught me in the middle of a major update to the website! New galleries, portfolios and a completely new design - hopefully all finished and ready to go live by 31st July 2015. In the meantime, my blog section is still live and here are a few photographs from the Theakstons Crime Festival... Click [...]
Thursday night was spent at the Horse Hospital photographing the Launch Party for Cathi Unsworth's latest book Without the Moon. The book is set during World War II, so a lot of the people dressed up in suitable attire for a night out in the 1940s. With music by Earl Okin and a special appearance [...]
I was just reading a Facebook post by the author Sarah Hilary about posing for photographs and she said "I was simply told to avoid brick walls (as back drops) and to smile sweetly.". Now, some of you who know me will know that one of my favourite expressions when asking for photographs is "Can [...]
I've been playing with a new plugin for Photoshop called Fractalius after seeing a few examples on DeviantArt of images that had a weird wavy live fractal effect. Going through some of my nature photographs I selected a handful of them and processed each of them through the plugin, adjusting the the settings for each [...]
It's been rather a busy couple of weeks: as you'll have read I was at The Village Festival on the 12th July and then (no rest for the wicked!) it was straight off to Harrogate for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Festival 2014. This is the second year I've been the Official Photographer and it [...]
Long weekend starts tomorrow! Not a holiday, but the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, in Harrogate. I'm the official photographer for the event and it is always a great time, lots of excellent writers on stage as well as mingling with their readers/fans. I don't think there is another event quite like this! They'll [...]
Went to a new festival last weekend down in Chalkwell (near Southend) called The Village Green Festival. I was working at one of the events (Dragnet) and didn't know what to expect, "How big can a village green be?" I thought to myself. To say I was staggered by the size of the festival would [...]
Photographed a lovely little event yesterday in Bath at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights. Not only does it have one of the best names I've ever seen, but it is also one of the nicest independent book stores I've been to! Wandering about there are nooks and surprises around every corner and upstairs a [...]
