New landscapes from Yosemite valley

Last September I spent a few days in Yosemite valley. It's somewhere I've always wanted to visit and I'm pleased to say it didn't disappoint. Here are a few landscape shots I took while I was there.

London interiors

I shoot interiors quite frequently as part of my travel work. But over the last month I've been shooting quite a few for the peeps over at One Fine Stay, a luxury rental company here in London. I've blogged about how to approach shooting interiors before. Here are a few from the last month.

Prague

Well I'm happy to say that Hollywood has nothing to worry about - I'm just back from spending 4 days in Prague being filmed for an instructional DVD for Canon, and my acting skills still need a bit of polish :-) We were working some crazy hours but director Alun Pughe and the rest of the crew were great. Look for the DVD in October / November.


I only had a couple of hours to walk around and take pictures - here are a few of my favourites, all taken on a Canon 5D2 and 50mm:

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Scilly Isles extras

Inevitably when you shoot for magazines they can't always run all of your favourite images. For a 6 page feature, they might only be able to use 10 pictures, and those have to tie in with the storyline the writer has chosen. So here are some of my favourite images from the Scilly Isles shoot for Lonely Planet Magazine, only a few of which actually made it into the feature. You can see the whole set in much higher resolution in the recent work section of the website.

Scilly Isles with Lonely Planet Magazine

This month's Lonely Planet Magazine is their Islands special issue, and I'm pleased to say I shot the feature on the Scilly Isles. For those of you whose geography is a little rusty, the Scillies are the most westerly part of England - a small group of islands off the South West tip of Cornwall. And to give you some idea of the lead time involved in the magazine publishing business, I shot this assignment in August last year, over 9 months ago!


The job was great fun but not without it's challenges. Firstly, the writer and I flew there in the worlds smallest plane, which meant baggage was at a premium, so I had to pack as light as possible.


Secondly, the Scilly Isles at first seems quite pedestrian compared to the locations I typically shoot. However after a while the place really grew on me. Dramatic landscapes, interesting locals and thankfully some wonderful weather made the shoot a lot of fun and I came away with a set of pictures I was very pleased with.


Here's the layout for the magazine. I'll post some of my favourite outtakes soon. Big thanks to Art Director Hayley Ward and Features Editor and Writer Orla Thomas.

New work online - New York City

I've just posted some new work on the website from a recent shoot in New York. Head over to the Recent Work section to take a look.

Big thanks to models Malliha Ahmad, Christina Galioto and Tatiana Eva-Marie, stylist Angelina Scantlebury and assistants Tommy Evans and Chris LaPointe.

Ice Cave

I'm out in Verbier at the moment, one of Europe's biggest ski resorts, trying to shoot for one of my ski company clients. The only problem we have - which we share with most of the Alps - is that we have NO SNOW!

The last major dump was at Christmas, and since then we've only had about 3cm of fresh. The 45 consecutive days of sunshine we've been enjoying is the most ever recorded in Verbier.

So today I decided to do something a bit different and skinned up to a small tunnel in the mountain that a friend had told me about. The interesting thing about the tunnel is that it's filled with giant ice stalagmites - some of them over 3m tall. It's a rather spooky place and feels like something from the set of Aliens.

I went there first a couple of days ago, but the only camera I had with me was my iPhone. So today I went back and shot it with a 'real' camera... I rather like the results, and hope you do too.

New work from Sweden online

Back in August I spent nearly a month in Sweden shooting for Insight Guides. After a week in picturesque Stockholm I travelled south to the impressive fortress at Kalmar, across to the old university city of Lund, through the fishing villages of the Bolhousian coast towards Norway, then followed the Gota Canal back across the great lakes before heading up north to Lake Siljan and Dalarna county.


I spent four years in neighbouring Norway while growing up, and passed through Sweden on one of our epic family road trips in about 1986. This was the first time I had been back since, and one of the things that struck me was just how wonderfully empty and unspoiled the country is.


Coming from crowded South East England, Sweden is quite literally a breath of fresh air. Outside of Stockholm and Gothenburg there are very few cars on the road, and forests and lakes stretch across the landscape as far as you can see. If you love the great outdoors there is much to like.


I took my old Nikon FE2 along for the ride to shoot alongside my Canon 5D mark IIs for a bit of fun, and you can see the results in the Recent Work section on the website.