A Day in Rome
My wife Sara and I spent our Anniversary weekend in Rome, and for the first time in a few holidays I took my D3 along for the ride and took a few pictures for a day. We visited the Colosseum and the Vatican City and here are a selection of the best ones. (I have [...]
President Obama – A State Visit
On Tuesday this week I decided to take a trip to Downing Street to cover the arrival of Barack Obama to number 10. The American President was on an official state visit to the UK. He and his wife, the first lady Michelle were staying at Buckingham Palace as guests of the Queen for three [...]
Winter portraits
The Buckinghamshire town of Chesham saw some of the coldest winter temperatures on record during the recent cold weather spell here in the UK. One day the temperature reached its lowest at minus 19 degrees celsius. I was tasked by the Daily Mail to go to the town late in the afternoon to collect some [...]
Student anarchy on the streets of London
Last Thursday I found myself amongst the chaos in the heart of Westminster as the student protest march turned from a peaceful one into one of violence and anarchy. The coalition government decided, by a narrow majority, to vote for an increase in the maximum threshold universities can charge for tuition fees from £3,000 to [...]
On Assignment – The Popes Visit
I have just completed a week of filming for Reuters TV. I was not a part of the Pool camera crews but a team of Producers and Cameramen that were tasked with filming everything that happened around the televised visit. Tasks included GV’s, voxpops, interviews and the filming of any demonstrations that happened at each [...]
On Assignment – Catherine Casey’s Shed
The brief for this shoot for the Daily Mail was simply, travel to a location near Farnham in Hampshire and photograph Catherine Casey and her shed on wheels. The only instructions further was to have her smiling with the usual head, mid and full length shots…. Other than that it was up to me to [...]
On Assignment – Vintage Goodwood
I was commissioned by the Daily Mail to cover the Vintage Goodwood festival event at the weekend, and as promised to so many people I took pictures of, here are some of my favourites for all to see. The Vintage festival at Goodwood celebrates five decades of British Cool. The three day music and arts [...]
All Change… At The Top
The night of Tuesday the 11th May 2010 was excellent for me, I had decided at the last minute to see what was happening in Downing Street. The hustle and bustle of the previous few days after the general election had been manic with a hundred Chinese whispers circulating around the Westminster Press pack as [...]
Step up to Power….
Number 10 Downing Street three days after the Tory Leader David Cameron became the British Prime Minister. After 13 years of Labour rule he leads a coalition Government in a alliance with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats. Lets hope it all works out and you deliver some normality and prosperity back to us all.
On Assignment – Sir Willard White
Pictured here is Bass Baratone Opera Singer Sir Willard White, and I have to say he is perhaps one of the coolest people I have ever met… A pleasure to photograph, he was asked for an interview by the Irish Independent on Sunday and I was in turn tasked by National News to photograph Sir [...]
On Assingment – Sotheby’s
I’ve just finished transmitting pictures from a task at Sotheby’s Auction house in London, not an easy job for getting inspiration and like many of these kind of jobs a press release is normally issued to every man and his dog so there are always loads of snappers there and it is a challenge indeed [...]
Ian Tomlinson Memorial
A year after the G20 Protests in central London, Julia Tomlinson, the wife of Ian Tomlinson lays flowers and pays tribute to her late husband who died during the violent clashes with police exactly a year ago. Mr Tomlinson’s family including his son Paul King (grey Jumper) were present near the Bank of England where [...]
Spring Afternoon in Westminster
I took some weather pictures short notice yesterday afternoon with fellow Photographers Zed and Callum in the Westminster Area, Thought I’d share them…
Photocall – Boris opens Olympic Size Pool
London Mayor Boris Johnson opened a new state of the art, £31m Leisure complex containing London’s fist 50 metre Olympic Sized Swimming pool for 40 years. The new complex has been built on the site where a 1930′s outdoor pool used to be called the Uxbridge Lido. It is the first of 150 fitness centres [...]
Photocall – Olympic Ticket Launch
Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles, Help Launch the Olympic Ticket Information Website Service at Trafalgar Square on the 22nd March 2010. London 2012′s first major ticketing announcement was made today in London’s Trafalgar Square. The launch of the London 2012 ticket website means people can now sign up and be the first to find out [...]
Westminster Coroner
I think these are probably the nicest snatch shots that I have taken to date…. Although he did pose up for us!!! Thank you to Dr Paul Knapman (Westminster Coroner) for being such a thoroughly nice bloke and letting Ed and I get some stock Photographs of you.
Photocall – Slimming World Couple of the Year 2010
I have just completed a commissioned PR shoot for Slimming World and I thought I’d share some images. Slimming World revealed their Slimming Couple of the Year 2010 today at The Ritz hotel in Central London. Alan and Jan Coupe from Fareham in Hampshire have lost more than 15 stone between them. Alan, 55, has [...]
