This Is City Life - Fashion Editorial.

I had an Editorial fashion shoot in London around Southbank yesterday, it was a great shoot and I got to work with one of my favourite models, Micah Holmes. The weather was perfect for a location shoot,  it's always a bit hit and miss in the UK when you're shooting on location! The Editorial is titled "This Is City Life" and it's looking at all the different styles and people that you find in the city. I'd like to shoot a sequel to this Editorial looking at more styles.

I'll be uploading the rest of the photographs from this editorial to: Facebook

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I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas..Portraits. 20th December.

I had a little portrait session today, I wanted it to feel wintery... hence the hat and scarf.. but during the shoot I discovered how different two photos can be, despite the fact that nothing in the photo has changed except a pose. I love photography and I love working with people.. people are the best, and most versatile subjects to work with.

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Eye See You (portraiture and hands). 9th December.

A fun little shot from a portrait shoot today. I do love portraiture, it's so fun working with people! My two favourite elements of a portrait are the expression of the sitters face, and the positioning of their hands. I think the use of hands in portraiture is underrated, hands are great and they are so expressive. Next time you take a portrait, think about where the sitters hands are.

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A Simple Portrait. 2nd December.

A photo-tour of Southbank and Westminster. 3rd November.

I have the weekend off, so I have been able to do my own thing on this rather beautiful but chilly day! Onto the DLR I hopped to get myself into central London to do some shooting. The problem with taking photos in London is that there are so many things to take photos of I need to plan what I am actually going to focus on photographing. 

My focus for today was South Bank skate park; a skate park which has interested me over the years, it has been something I've always wanted to delve into... so today and last wednesday were perfect times for me to delve away!

Daniel was just mending his bike when I asked him for his portrait, he was doing some pretty sick moves before I took this photo though ('scuse the street lingo!).

After spending a bit of time meeting great people and taking photos at the skate park I headed down the embankment; I was astonished to find a number of people clutching Ice Creams, it was such a cold day.. far too cold for Ice Cream!

Jubilee Gardens (a green space next to the London Eye) has had a make-over and I have never really had the chance to walk through it, so I had a nosey and then perched upon a small hill and watched the Street Performers from afar. I was quite disappointed with two performers who's act was the Cha Cha slide and the dance to Gangham Style, not overly original... it was great to see people joining in though!

Westminster Bridge was crammed, but amongst all the hustle and bustle I found this man pushing a cart full of souvenirs he had been selling.

Thought I'd check out Parliment Square to see if there were any protests going on, and indeed there was one small protest about wanting Democracy in Lybia. The passion and enthusiasm of the people protesting and shouting the chants was quite inspiring.

After my little photo-journey around Southbank/Westminster I headed to Kings Cross to meet Sarah Page, a friend of mine who is a Photographer/Filmmaker, she was in London for the weekend filming part of a documentary she was making. It was great to meet up with her and catch up with all she's been doing and I was able to share with her a little about what I've been doing. 

London can be such a lonely place despite the fact it is full of people, so it has been nice to see a familiar face!

Sarah Page: www.sarahkathleenpage.co.uk/

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The Burger Van Project. 19th October.

Possible new project: Photographing burger vans that I stumble upon during my travels. My Dad used to run a burger van and still uses it for catering events, so maybe that is what has interested me in this subject! I'll see how it goes, so watch this space!

MacBook Air. 11th Ocotber.

I have finally stepped into the world of Mac, after owning the odd iPod and iPhone I have been slowing converting to an Apple fangirl! I decided to go for the 11" MacBook Air, my Sony Vaio Laptop is fairly new and has no problem in running everything I need it to, so I didn't need anything to replace it.. instead I wanted something a little bit more portable so that I could take it with me when I work for tethered shooting and to utilise long and boring train journeys by editing photos! I am also intending on travelling a little bit in the future, and this is the perfect lightweight super-portable option. So far (after owning it for 2 days) I am super happy with it's performance, it has a beautiful design and I can not get over how slim it is! 

Mario. 27th September.

I met Mario today on the streets of Peterborough so I had to get his portrait. 

I'm still sorting through my photos from London as I have had another very busy day today... I'm hoping that I get a little bit of time on Saturday.

Weather-dependant I have a test shoot tomorrow for a documentary piece I am thinking about doing on an estate near to me, so you may see a test shoot from that tomorrow if all goes well!!

Horse Walkers, Spitting Signs, and London. 25th September.

Here are a couple of photos I took today, nowhere near the amount of photos that I have taken today.. but I need to go through them and do something with them tomorrow! For those of you who don't know, I have been in London today as I attended the awards ceremony for the Ian Parry Scholarship, it was an amazing evening which included me having a little chat with Don McCullin, which was such an honour! I will write a little more about it tomorrow when I have time to write a decent blog.

The Fenland Roaster. 21st September.

This is my Dad and Matt, one of the guys who sometimes works for my dad. My Dad's business is the Fenland Roaster, he does hog roasts, lamb roasts and any other roast you could imagine as well as a load of other catering options. This means whenever I eat with my parents the meal is almost always going to incorporate some kind of leftovers from a previous job, I won't complain though as his cooking is great!

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Guitar Girl. 17th September.

I currently feel that my need to take portraits is not satisfied, so I took a little self portrait today to satisfy it for a tiny little bit of time! Tomorrow I shall try and find some time to hunt down some interesting people to photograph portraits of...

The Flower People and Lumen Magazine. 12th September.

I am slowly stepping into the world of freelance photography now that I have finished my studies! I was out and about with a regional newspaper company today and ended up taking a few photographs of this trio today who were responsible for a prize-winning flower display... They were quite enjoyable to meet and I know that there are plenty of people out there who I will enjoy meeting in the future, so I'm quite excited to see how my freelance career develops!

Also, I have a front page on the Analogue Photography Journal; Lumen, there is also a selection of my work featured in the journal alongside a number of pieces by other great photographers, you should check it out: http://www.lumenmagazine.com/

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Welsh fashion shoots and Coke Cans. 7th September.

I'm back... now I am in the land of internet so I can get back into the swing of things by regularly updating my blog! 

For those of you who don't know, I've been in Wales for the past week (and I have been camping for the week before that)... I was not able to post a blog every day as my links to the internet were not that great during my time away. Wales was great, I ended my week by taking photos for a fashion shoot, it was great and I am still processing the photos from the shoot... but I have uploaded a sneak peak:

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People. 1st September.

So, I'm in wales this week.. currently at a conference for Home Educators (as some of you may know I was home educated up until the age of 16). I've not yet had any opportunity to shoot any landscapes yet (got plenty of time to do that during the week), but I have been photographing people over the past couple of days. I've uploaded a couple of the portraits I've taken over the past two days. I also apologise in advance for the lack of blog posts over the week as my internet connection and mobile signal is very limited.

More photos of people, landscapes and general welsh things will follow!

Through These Eyes. 29th August.

Firstly, massive apologize in my lack of Blogging! I have been camping in a world of no electricity, so I had to keep my phone use to a minimum.. which meant I could not use internet on my phone to post blogs. I am home for a couple of days and then I am off to Wales.. but I should have internet access, so don't worry.

Looking forward to getting some good landscapes and portraits whilst in Wales, so keep your eyes open!

Louis Smith makes his city proud. 18th August.

Louis Smith, the Gymnast who won Silver and Bronze medals at the London 2012 Olympics, made an appearance in his home city of Peterborough. Hoards of people gathered around Cathedral Square waiting for the arrival of Louis on his open top London bus, everybody eagerly waiting to congratulate the success of this great Gymnast. I captured a few photographs of this event, he is a Gymnast who inspires the children of this city to get out and be involved in sport. I have a lot of respect for Louis Smith, congratulations Louis, I look forward to seeing you move forward as a world class Gymnast.

GradAcad day 12: The Shard and Bottle Bottoms. 10th July.

I spent the first half of this morning at the Shard, as I needed to do a location RECCE and test shoot before I started working on ideas for the Jelly Brief. The Shard is pretty impressive as it is now the tallest building in Western Europe, it officially opened last Thursday (5th July 2012) with a big light show, but sadly I missed it! The Shard is going to include Office Space, Restaurants, a Hotel, Apartments and right at the top a viewing platform (but tickets for the view will cost £24.50 for adults and £18.90 for children... so not the cheapest view). 

The test shoot gave me a great chance to brush up on my Architectural photography skills, although I currently do not have a tripod in London.. so I couldn't really go to town with the photos! It's definitely a building I want to return to, maybe with the Mamiya and a good strong tripod!

I visited The Shard with Amelie, she's an illustrator who is working on my brief.. I wanted to do some test shooting with a model and I decided to go a bit crazy and cheesy in Lightroom and created a "superhero" version of Amelie and The Shard. 

The rest of today has been spent at my laptop, searching for inspiration through research and creating drafts of work. I have come to a couple of possible solutions to the brief, but I'm hoping to have three ideas by tomorrow as we are having mentoring sessions with people from the industry. 

I made this triptych as I needed to stop thinking about the brief and spend some time taking photos! I noticed that the bottom of my Coke bottle would make an interesting subject and I spent a short time studying how different environments create a different feel to the coke bottle.

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GradAcad day 11: Jelly, Tube Trains and a Project about Springs... 9th July.

We spent the most of today with the Spring Project, so there weren't many opportunities to capture photos during the day.. as the Spring Project consists of: Standing, Sitting, Silence and a little bit of talking! Today we talked about attributes which we consider important to our future careers.. we then thought about how well we were developing the attributes and then went on to consider how we could strengthen the attributes in our lives. It was a good day with the Spring Project, there were quite a few things which I learnt and had time to think about.. and all in all it was quite interesting!

After our day with the Spring Projects we all split off into small groups to go for our briefings, this week we are all working individually and I am working on a brief for the agency Jelly. Whilst I was on the tube to the agency I was standing at the end of the carriage, I realised that even though I was right next to another carriage the two carriages seemed completely separate as no one seemed to acknowledge the existence of the people on the other side... 

Starbucks Meeting Point.

Starbucks Litter Point

Jelly was cool, the offices seemed really relaxed and the room which we met in was filled with sofas and retro/quirky toys. The guy above, Steve, gave us our brief and introduced us to Jelly... I have already started immersing myself in the brief, but I'll refrain telling you what the brief is until I've finished it and pitched the concept! It's going to be a fun week and I am expecting a good few brain aches as I journey through the brief as it is really making me think about how I can stretch my boundaries! 

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