St. Patrick's Day

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day and to promote Tourism Ireland the London Eye was lit green and I was tasked with photographing it.

Shot with a Nikon D3 and D700 with 24-70 and 70-200 lenses.

As part of the shoot I also took some promotional photographs before the England v Ireland match at Twickenham.

I had just finished photographing a group of Irish fans when Richard Branson walked past and was pulled into the group. Never camera shy, he seemed very happy to pose although according to my camera data he was there for 2 seconds!

State of the Arts conference 2012

Spent the day at The Lowry, Manchester, photographing Art Council England's annual State of the Arts conference.

Hosted by Kirsty Wark, speakers included Ed Vaizey MP (Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries) and Arlene Phillips. The conference closed with a performance by Contact Playback and was followed by a reception at the Imperial War Museum North.

The Lowry

Ed Vaizey MP

Kirtsy Wark

Arlene Phillips

Alan Davey, Arts Council England Chief Executive

Contact Playback

Imperial War Museum North

I am Nikon

I think that's what the adverts say?

In the long distant past of using film, I used Nikon film cameras, but like many photographers switching to digital, I changed to Canon, as at the time their kit was the better option for me.

Now over 10 years later with many Canon users going back to Nikon....I have followed suit.

I'm not into arguing about which brand is better. They're both great camera systems and whether I use Canon or Nikon, I'm still the one who has to point them in the right direction.

But to keep up with the competition I needed to upgrade my camera kit.....and at the moment the Nikons seem to be better suited to the sort of work I do, which has so far been proved with the assignments I have shot with them.

So....I'm selling most of my Canon gear....but not all of it just yet. You never know what Canon might come out with in the next few months.

East Sussex

I've been by the sea for a couple of days. My client wanted some images of various parts of East Sussex so here are just a few of my favourites. With a large area to cover it would have been easier not to shoot it in january, with the sun rising late and setting early but at least the weather was good. As I looked out of my hotel bedroom window in Eastbourne to watch the sun rise, I saw a ship silhouetted on the horizon. Never seen a sun rise like that.