Arse-kicked by trees.
I have had my backside kicked by trees this evening. I’ve been doing some location scouting for the oft-postponed, never properly scheduled woodland shoot that I started planning months back and never got around to actually shooting. Let me tell you, woodland in summer, even late summer, is a lot harder to shoot in than [...]
KYH: Visual Pushups
I’ve spent my last couple of lunch breaks watching the brilliant new class over at Kelby Training, “A day with Jay Maisel.” Jay is an American photographer based in New York. In the industry he’s well known for his photo walk workshops, as well as for his straight-talking, true-New-Yorker style. During the class, Scott Kelby [...]
Could you lie your head on the horse, please?
First and foremost: A pox on Starbucks that don't have wifi. It's just not on, people. A man needs his connection to the interwubs. I'm writing this in a Starbucks in Richmond, which, as you might have gathered, doesn't have any wifi. You'll be getting this via the wonderful medium of a tethered N95 (because [...]
Eve and Grace
Picture the scene, if you will: A lovely, sunny, June afternoon. Very sunny, in fact. And on this very sunny afternoon I ended up doing a shoot on a white patio with two kids: one seven year-old and one very cranky baby.
Yeah, I got my arse kicked by the sun, as I’ve said before, but I learned a bunch of things, too, so it worked out well. Next time I won’t let the sun beat me.
Slideshow after the fold. Hope you like ‘em.
Hell and Sunshine
Yesterday I did my second ever proper photoshoot (the first one having been at Allhands with Michelle). This time I was doing some family portraiture of a friend’s daughters, one a very precocious nine-year-old and the other having just turned one.
It was, by and large, hell.
