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Most recent entries
- Front cover picture for UHB NHS Foundation Trust
- Launch of new magazine
- Office murals for law firm’s new Birmingham office
- Tree Felling Time Lapse
- 10 year anniversary Images of 2006
- New Birmingham Library
- Royal Life Saving Society
- 10 year anniversary-Images of 2005
- Advertising campaign for Aston University
- 10 year anniversary-Images of 2004
- Environmental Health News front and inside feature
- Dog Photography
- Quantum Qflash
- 10 year anniversary-Images of 2003
- My 10 year anniversary and special offers
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Front cover picture of the QE Hospital in Birmingham, taken for the current issue of Trust in the future, a magazine distributed to members of the UHB NHS Foundation Trust.
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I was recently commissioned to provide photography for a new employee magazine, published for the staff of Grafton GB.
Front cover of issue 1 was was a portrait and inside feature, shot in the snow, on one of there drivers who was based in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
I’ve just shot the front cover portrait for issue 2 in Milton Keynes, which will be published in early Summer.
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St Paul’s Catherdral London
Edmund Street Birmingham
Results of a recent commission by a UK Law firm who wanted murals printed for there new offices in Colmore Business District, Birmingham and Liverpool.
I photographed central Liverpool. London and Birmingham for them last December, the above images are the ones used in the Birmingham office.
I also supplied corporate portraits for their new website, which will be live in June.
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A recently shot time lapse film of tree felling in Harborne, Birmingham.
4300 frames shot over 5 hours.
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In 2006 I secured several long term contracts to supply photography, new clients included West Midlands Police, Advanantage West Midlands, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Kraft UK.
I photographed several major projects in the West Midlands, the re-development of Fort Dunlop and the Rotunda, launches of Sytle Birmingham and Taste of Birmingham and the start of the re-development of 5 ways in Birmingham city centre.
I covered several jobs in sewers and climbed to the top of Hereford Cathedral for English Heritage, I also photographed Zandra Rhodes recording The Archers at the BBC, the pictures were used the next day on page 1 and page 3 of The Daily Telegraph.
Morrissey and the Kaiser Chiefs were musical highlights, the latter were awarded with selling out the NIA in the fastest time.
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The New £188M Birmingham Library is now nearly complete.
It will open in September 2013, replacing the John Madin designed Ziggurat, which opened in 1974.
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Just started working with the Royal Life Saving Socitey, in the next few months I’ll be updating their image library across the UK, starting with corporate portraits of their senior management and staff.
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2005 was a year of openings, launches of business schemes which helped further development of the West Midlands region.
I started a long relationship with several Government organisations, photographed the opening of the new Business school at the University of Birmingham, opening of several retail units in the Bullring, and had a few visits to prisons and hospitals.
The year saw the prime minister Tony Blair visit Birmingham in an attempt to save the MG Rover car plant from closure.
I was also the last person to photograph society photographer, Lord Lichfield, who died the day after I took the pictures of him for The Times.
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Just completed an advertising campaign for Aston University.
Pictures will be used for a poster campaign, starting this week.
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2004 was another busy year. Building on my first year I gained a lot of new commissions from magazine editors.
During the year I photographed the future Archbishop of Canterbury Vincent Nichols, England cricketer Andrew Strauss at his old school in Oxfordshire, Preston from the Ordinary boys, Fred Dibnah and Grammy award winner conductor A.R Rahman.
This year I also photographed the first anniversary of the Bullring in Birmingham and several commissions for Birmingham Royal Ballet.
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Shot 2 commissions for this months Environmental Health News, pictures were used for the front cover, lead story and a feature on the CIEH at the recent Food show held at the NEC, Birmingham.
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A slight departure from my usual subjects, a client recently asked me to shoot his dog for a present.
The dog was only 18 months old and had the energy of 5 dogs.
The finished 30"x20” framed print looked stunning.
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My work and thoughts using Quantum Qflash for commercial and editorial photography are now featured on the Quantum instruments website.
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Until the end of 2013, instead of the usual archive picture of the month, to celebrate my 10th anniversary I’ll be posting a selection of images from each year I’ve been trading as a commercial photographer.
After working for the previous 10 years as a press photographer below are a selection of pictures from my first year of trading.
A busy year, highlights were photographing the opening of Selfridges and the Bullring in Birmingham, shooting fashion in Stockholm, supplying images for several annual reports, meeting a few England cricketers and supplying images for the book “A taste of Oxford.”
I still work for several clients I first shot for in 2003.
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In Feburary 2013 I will have been trading as a commercial freelance photographer for 10 years.
To celebrate I will be offering some very special promotions throughout 2013.
A big thank you to all who have supported me since 2003, below is a small selection of companies I have had the pleasure of supplying some of the 108,879 pictures in my image library.
February special offer.
During Feb 2013, all 1 hour PR photography commissions shot in the West Midlands will be priced at 2003 prices, £125 ex VAT.
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Terms:Discount applies to all 1 hour PR jobs shot between 1st and 28th Feb 2013, discount only applies to full priced commissions.
Full terms
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