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admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:47:54 +0000

More photographs of George Osbourne

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:42:30 +0000

Hiya. Just an update to the post earlier this week. Yet more images of Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne in Blackpool, Lancashire.

George Osbourne photography for Insider Magazine

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:37:28 +0000

This months election special of Insider magazine features my portrait photography of the shadow chancellor George Osbourne, better still I got front page. Nice One.

I found George Osbourne an odd character, confident and nervous, almost like a little boy, very weird.

He is as you probably already know from one of my previous posts the same age as me, 38!, yes 38!, I thought he was in his late forties. I think I have aged better.

Photograph of Edwin Booth at Booths Head Office in Preston Lancashire

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:07:04 +0000

A couple of years ago I was asked by Lancashire Business View Magazine to get a corporate photograph of Edwin Booth for their Magazine. Edwin Booth is the chairman of the independent Lancashire retailer Booths.
I went along with the then editor Andrew Calvert who was to interview Edwin. We arrived at Booths head office which is based just outside Preston, Lancashire off the M6 motorway. As Andrew was interviewing Edwin I scouted the building for an interesting location,there where quite a few.
The offices are a superb example of energy and resource efficient architecture. It employed rainwater harvesting, intelligent lighting based on the exterior light levels and most impressive of all intelligent heating that calculated how many people where in the building and adjusted the heating accordingly.
Back to the photography, Edwin did not have a huge amount of time, so I quickly set up this shot, looking down the spiral staircase. I liked the simple graphic nature of the view and placed Edwin at the point where the two supporting posts would have met.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

A business portrait photography shoot in Lancashire

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:05:06 +0000

A while back I was asked to do a rush editorial photographic job for a business magazine. It was to photograph Peter MacGregor the boss of MacGregor Europe a haulage firm based in Lancashire.

The brief – ’The photographer needs to get a photograph of Ian with his fleet’.

Well it was Friday afternoon in mid December, it was cold and damp, I turned up and not unexpectedly for that time of year all the trucks where out on deliveries.
We experimented with few photographs in his office with a map to show the areas covered, not really what I wanted but that’s all we had to work with.
I suggested we try something outside, I then noticed the roller shutter to the garage.

Fantastic!

I asked Ian to stand against it , arms folded, hands in pockets, you get the idea.

I decided to go with this photograph in the end, nice, simple and graphic.

The editor of the magazine loved it, the magazine designer loved it, unfortunately it never appeared, why?

The magazine was on deadline and they had hired in an assistant designer who just used the first photograph I had submitted, you guessed it the map shots.

Gutted!!!