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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.
Scotland’s apprentices
I had a great time up and down the country photographing some of Scotland’s apprentices from different industries.
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…
Police Bravery Awards
It’s been an interesting time shooting all the nominees for the upcoming SPF Awards, which celebrates outstanding Police Officers for their acts of bravery, commitment and support thought Scotland.
Over the past five weeks I have been all over Scotland photographing the nominees for this year’s awards, with some amazing stories of bravery and great commitment to their communities it’s been an absolute pleasure.
So here are just a few of my favourites from the past five weeks.
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Britney Spears…
Totally forgot I event took this picture, what a surprise for The New Yorker magazine to use it in an article on Britney Spears new book, The Woman In me.
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.
UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) …President
I was commissioned to shoot a visit by the COP26 UN climate change president Alok Sharma who was visiting Whitelees Wind Farm just outside Glasgow for the forthcoming COP21 – Glasgow Climate Change Conference.
I’ve been to Whitelees before and as you would expect for a wind farm is a baron wind swept wilderness even in May!
So decided to get there early and reccie potential locations, as usual you don’t get much time with your subject, and he was doing a live broadcast for C4.
So I set up at the edge of the car park so El Presidente didn’t need to walk to far for his picture…
Very happy with the shot I got and Mr Sharma was very accommodating.
For all those who keep asking for the tech details of my images here you go-
Nikon 4s 24-70mm f2.8 lens – one godoxAD600 flash to the left
ISO: 100,aperture: 7.1, Shutter: 1/250 lens at 24mm shot on raw.
And a big thanks to Whitelees Wind Farm Visitors Centre cafe for keeping us going with coffee and cake.
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