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October 1, 2016

Headshots with the UK’s ‘Heavy Metal Marine Biologist’

I recently enjoyed taking some headshots/portraits with The Blowfish, an fast-rising TV personality described as the ‘heavy metal marine biologist’. He’s best known, so far, for appearing on popular BBC Worldwide adventure series Fishing Impossible as a main presenter. ​ Shooting at his home, I captured some basic, relaxed images as well as some shots […]

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April 10, 2015

Copper Feel Cabaret at Tattoo Kulture 2015, Weston Super Mare

Down by the seaside at Weston-super-Mare, I took some shots of the Copper Feel Cabaret’s show, which formed part of the entertainment at the Tattoo Kulture 2015 convention.

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December 11, 2012

Promo shoot with artist Jennie Gyllblad

A few weeks back I had the pleasure of producing some beautiful promotional photography for a Bath-based Swedish artist, Jennie Gyllblad who is forging a growing reputation as a comic book artist and freelance illustrator. Jennie, who has a degree in Illustration, loves creating stories and characters using traditional media such as watercolour, gouache, ink […]

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December 10, 2012

Shooting in a Winter Wonderland

Here are a few of my images from a recent magazine shoot for the John Lewis Partnership Gazette. They were taken at a special Christmas event for John Lewis and Waitrose Partners at Longleat, near Bath. The Gazette is distributed to over 70,000 Partners across the UK. Lighting was challenging, sometimes shooting outside in pitch […]

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December 7, 2012

Halloween and Christmas with Voodoo Queen Tuesday Laveau

Due to a flurry of commercial and PR freelance shoots in recent weeks there hasn’t been much time for blogging but while archiving some images I thought a couple of a local burlesque star should be brought to your attention. I’ve worked with burlesque and gogo performer Tuesday Lavaeu on numerous occasions over the past […]

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October 29, 2012

Butterfly fashion shoot with makeup artist Jo Peters

Recently I was lucky to work again with Bristol-based makeup artist Jo Peters, a makeup lecturer at City of Bristol college and something on an online celebrity with a hugely popular YouTube channel. Our model for the shoot was Jess who was keen to try out an idea I’d had making use of lots and […]

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August 30, 2012

Cave Girl pinup shoot with Marianne Cheesecake

London-based Canadian burlesque star Marianne Cheescake has been dazzling international audiences with her fun-packed routines and it was my great pleasure to shoot with her when she was in Bristol. We’d been in touch via email discussing two different ideas and made use of Pinterest to organise our thoughts visually. The first act Marianne had […]

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June 18, 2012

‘Where’s Wally?’ – Performer promo shoot

Here are some snaps from a recent promo photo shoot with Bristol-based performer, Boo, who goes by the stage name, Lou Leigh Blue. Lou focuses on fun, story-led burlesque routines, often with a satirical edge. This shoot was to provide promotional images for a brand new act based on popular children’s book, Where’s Wally? Lighting […]

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May 21, 2012

Somerset flood photography for Waitrose magazine

The Waitrose Chronicle had an interesting story regarding a worker who had suffered her house being flooded in the recent floods. The magazine got in touch to see if I could grab some flood images before the waters receded. Here are a couple of images printed, which were taken by Burrow Mump on the Somerset […]

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