With Christmas coming someone asked me which Digital SLR camera they should buy for their other half, who had used a manual SLR back in the day, and was now keen to get into photography once more. I blow hot and cold when it comes to discussing ‘gear’. Yes, I’ll sing the praises of my […]
Candid street photography, El Rastro, Madrid
At the end of the year it’s worth going through your photographs and deleting those that will not be needed again, trimming down all the family shoots to just the photos that featured on online galleries and perhaps downloading images from hard drives to DVD discs for archiving. It’s also a fun time to review […]
Vintage portraiture
My calendar is now getting pretty congested from here until Christmas, with several family photoshoots, personal projects and freelance gigs in the offing. There may still be some gaps, though, so do email if you would like to book a shoot between now and Christmas. Anyway, despite my busy schedule, I’ve managed to find time […]
Photographing Keda Breeze’s Hoochie Coochie, The Bizarre and the Beautiful
On 27 October I was lucky enough to photograph Bristol’s brilliant Hoochie Coochie Cabaret, at Metropolis. I’d enjoyed the show many times as a punter and always wanted to have a crack at shooting the show. Organiser Keda Breeze books some of the best cabaret, circus, vaudeville, neo-burlesque with the odd bit of comedy and […]