ave maria

Maria – 86 years young!!!!!

Swims every day – is more fearless, free and fabulous than anyone I know….

the hardest fight – from stills to motion

Have just finished my first short film The Hardest Fight and it’s getting a great reaction so, if you have 3 minutes spare in your day, do take a look

HDDSLR hero Vincent Laforet (no less!!!!) just gave me the thumbs up and I’m really psyched!!!!

“Fantastic location and story – very very nice – v”

Also on YouTube

If you don’t already know the work of Vincent Laforet – both as a photographer and a film maker then be sure to check out his site

What I respect most about him is that he is NOT afraid to share information so that others get the inspiration to go make the leap into motion & try it for themselves!!!!!!!

Enjoy what’s left of the summer

jade and joe

I shot this footage with the manual in one hand and the camera in the other!!! I didn’t have a clue what I was doing.
Going from stills to motion I didn’t even know what shutter speed to set the camera on for video…Still, for all its technical ‘mistakes’ I like this little black and white film.

While I was filming Jade I came across Joe – who’d swim the English Channel more times than he could remember.
There’s something about the self deprecating, stiff upper lip, stoicism of the Brits that’s difficult to find elsewhere……….it’s what I love about the culture and the way it celebrates the individuals among us.

my own backyard

sometimes it’s all too easy to ignore what’s in your own backyard…To think that better things lie way over the horizon and that you’ll only reach them if you travel far from where you come from to get them.

sometimes I think the further you travel down this creative road the harder it gets because you wanna get better at what you do, what you capture and what you see and the better you get the better you want to be….
I like making pictures. I take them all the time. Pressing the shutter on the world I see before me makes me feel whole. When I lose that feeling I go back to my roots and I photograph the ordinary things that surround me and embrace me and revive me.
I go back to the basics – to how I first started…To what made me want to be a photographer and a film maker in the first place and I try to rekindle that feeling and take pictures of the simple things close to home.