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Dog friendly chippy!
When a client asks can you go to St Andrews for a job it’s a no brainer.
With the start of summer it’s always nice to get a trip to the seaside and have some fish & chips, and now award winning Fish & Chip Shop Cromars in St Andrews has created a dog friendly menu, the doggy chippy is offering sausages and puppuccinos for your pets.
I can’t speak for the puppuccinos but the Fish &Chips were amazing and well worth the trip, big thanks to Wendy at Cromars for all her on the day.
Olympic swimmer Duncan Scott
Early start to shoot some portraits of Olympic swimmer Duncan Scott up at Stirling University just before he was competing in the British Championships this week.
Congratulations to Duncan Scott who has just qualified for his third Olympics…amazing achievement!
Bit of hanging around while he trained but at least it gave my cameras a chance to demist in the pool.
Legendry fashion designer Jeff Banks
Out and about this week photographing a true legend.
Commissioned to shoot the fashion designer Jeff Banks with his new range of glasses at Specsavers, Morningside.
Jeff was a pleasure to work with and a total gentleman with that old school demeanour.
*Image shot with a Nikon z7ii lens 24-70 f2.8 at 48mm iso 200, 400/f4*
Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day is back!
Quick job today at the Scottish Parliament, where all the party leaders came together to support Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day.
First Minister Humza Yousaf got in to the full swing of Christmas Jumper Day, donning a hat and jumper.
Followed by the rest of the Scottish party leaders…
Crufts 2022 in pictures
It’s been two years since I last covered Crufts or for that matter any large event, with over 28,000 dogs and 160,000 humans in attendance at this year’s show it is without a doubt the world’s greatest dog show.
As a dog lover I love covering Crufts not just for the dogs but it’s also a great event to photograph with so many photo opportunities over the four days at the NEC in Birmingham.
Walking over 25 miles during the event I certainly got my steps up!
Below are just some of my highlights from Crufts 2022 in pictures
succession season 3
This was one of my more unusual shoots…If you have ever watched Sky TV’s Succession you’ll know what’s going on!
Turns out in Succession Roman Roy bought Scottish football club Hearts to impress his father Logan (Scottish actor Brian Cox), only to discover that his billionaire dad is actually a fan of Hearts’ big cross-city rivals, Hibernian.
So the Hearts manager and players got in to the sprit of the show by wearing specially branded shirts with the the name of Roy family’s infamous company Waystar Royco added to the front of Heart’s shirts, as well as on branding within the club’s Tynecastle Park stadium for Roman Roy’s fictional takeover of the team.
Great day shooting with Robbie Neilson and the team at Heart’s who were all great sports…will now have to go and watch the show!
No flash portraits
Working with one of my clients who who are in the middle of a re-brand and wanted something a bit different for their staff images, something more youthful and engaging…think I managed to capture it perfectly for them!
Just a bit of window light and a reflector.
My new website
Delighted to announce the launch of my redesigned website with a fresh new look, showcasing my skills as a professional photographer in providing a dedicated, high-quality service to all my clients.
The new site is now live and can be viewed at www.scottishphotographer.com I hope you enjoy it as much as I had building it!
Eerie Glasgow – Coronavirus
Glasgow during the COVID 19 lockdown.
I took a walk round Glasgow city centre and then up to the Charing Cross area, I found it a humbling experience, unusually quite no background chatter, peoples footsteps or the normal hum from the traffic. The eerie quietness of the empty streets brought it home, the impact the coronavirus is having on our daily lives.
When I started out I instantly thought of shooting this in black & white, looking at both the colour and b&w images side by side the later easily jumps out as the best image and with less in the image it adds more!
It was like a scene from The Walking Dead!
Crufts 2020
I have a great client in London who I shoot all their Scottish photography for, so when I got a call asking me to be part of the press team for these years Crufts…as a dog lover I jumped at the chance.
I’ve put together a few of my favourite images from Crufts 20.
As a freelance photographer day to day you work on your own, shooting the press photography for worldwide press as part of a team was amazing!
Twenty thousand dogs, four photographers and three journalists and a picture editor on-site at the NEC…very rewarding experience.
Fantastic bunch to work with, long days and early starts for four days and picture of the day in The Guardian.
Hopefully will be back again next year!
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