Downton Abbey

Can photographers become filmmakers and are the two disciplines really that different?

As many of us are beginning to dare to call ourselves filmmakers, just what exactly can  photographers bring to the medium that sets us apart from others with none photographic backgrounds? Landscape, still life, food, car, architectural, interior, nature, sport, fashion, street … the list goes on. For me at least, there is one genre Read More…

Royal Wedding

Behind the scenes with Sky TV at the Royal Wedding for 'You' Magazine

A dawn chorus of alarms and texts wakes me at 4am. The Addison Lee car service driver will arrive at 4.30am. I have that sick feeling in my stomach and desperately want to go back to sleep, having got to bed just three hours earlier. I lie there for a moment trying to remember why Read More…

Social Media

Gone are the days of designing an online portfolio and then updating it every few months

Like many of us I am acutely aware of the importance of being far more visible online and making sense of and using social networking to gain a regular audience, retain it and ultimately generate more work and income from it. This whole subject raises more questions than answer and I’m not sure if anyone Read More…

Wild West

Nearly 20 years ago I made a filming trip that quite literally changed my life

It’s the first official working day of 2011 and I’m in the midst of organising new shoots; stills and video, professional and personal. This year I really want to do more with both still imagery and DSLR video. Professionally, there’s half a dozen projects in the pipeline, but it’s the personal ones that have been Read More…