Category Archives: Photography

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Zoo Story – promotional photos for a play

Steve Leanaghan, who I’ve photographed in a few plays, asked me to take the promotional photos for he and Paul Dyson’s production of “Zoo Story”, set in Central Park. We used the Botanic Gardens in Bath as the closest we had to Central Park.

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stills photographer on Judas Ghost

[all the photos in this post are copyright (c) Falling Shadows Productions Ltd] I’ve spent most of the last two weeks working on the set of “Judas Ghost”, a horror film by successful novelist Simon R Green. You can find out (a bit) more about … Read More

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Beth Porter and the Availables

I’ve worked with Beth a number of times, in several guises! She plays cello, recorder, ukulele, violin, … and she can do the most astonishing dolphin imitation! She also write songs for her group, “Beth Porter and the Availables”, and that’s what we were recording for … Read More

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Playing Up Theatre’s Accrington Pals

This was my third play in one week! Well, two plays and a musical, and all very different. Unusual take on WWI in that it concentrates on the women at home more than the soldiers in the trenches. Several interesting scenes combining the women at … Read More

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Theatre photography – The Decent Rogues

“The Decent Rogues” is a new musical by “Music is Life Productions Ltd“ which is about to transfer to London so they needed some good photos to promote the production. The show was first on at the Rondo theatre in Bath but now had a short … Read More

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Kelvin Players’ production of Natural Causes

Kelvin Players, an amateur group based in Bristol, put on “Natural Causes”, a black comedy about assisted suicide. The entire play is set in one living room, so a bit limiting for photography but the acting was good and there were some wonderful facial expressions … Read More

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The Bookshop Band – photoshoot in a bookshop

I’ve been working with The Bookshop Band for over a year now, shooting both photos and video – I’ve videoed almost every event they’ve played in Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights as well as the recording sessions they did at Ben’s house and Prior … Read More

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photo retouching – before and after

I thought it might be useful for people to see what sort of retouching I do to my photos. Of course, what I do and how much I do varies drastically depending on the type of image and its use – a fashion shot gets … Read More

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black and white photo shoot

I wanted to do a black and white shoot in order to test my ideas, lighting, composition, etc for the parallel world in my film, MindTwist. Charlotte Howard will be in the film, and is doing costume and makeup for it, so she seemed an … Read More

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headshots – Derek Fowlds

I’ve taken headshots for several of the actors I know but recently I was asked to take headshots for an actor that you probably know! Derek Fowlds is an actor I’ve admired since way back when he was Bernard in “Yes, Minister”, so it was … Read More

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fashion photo shoot with Fiona Morrison

Fiona Morrison is a friend of mine (we met during the Jane Austen Festival, which we both worked on). She recently started a fashion blog so I offered to do a photo shoot with her to provide images to fit what she wanted to write … Read More

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family photo shoot in the park

After I had photographed Katie a few weeks ago, her mother asked if I would take photos of the family, to print as a present for their grandmother. There’s a park just across the road from their house so we wandered over there and captured … Read More