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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*
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.
Day trip to a wind farm…
Great day yesterday out in the North Sea, as they say in my line of work every day is different!
Early start to photograph the Seagreen wind farm 16 mile of the northeast coast of Scotland.
Calm (sort of) seas and a blue sky perfect for photographing Scotland’s largest wind farm which is now fully operational, generating clean and renewable energy.
The Old Manse of Blair
Always nice when you get to shoot some amazing food and get to eat it as well!
Wee trip up to the highlands to shoot at a five-star boutique hotel for one of my PR clients.
The Old Manse of Blair fantastic country house just outside Blair Atholl.
Can certainly recommend the food from the new head chef Iain Nicholson.
Scotland from the air
I love shooting aerial photography so when I got a call from a client to shoot renewable energy sites around Scotland I was delighted.
Five days up in a helicopter and a few thousand frames later…
Flying at first light to locations you just don’t realise how stunning Scotland is from the air.
I’ve put together some of my favourite’s images hope you like them as much as I enjoyed shooting them.
Aerial photography has it’s own set of challenges, from making sure all your kit is secured in the aircraft so nothing falls off mid-flight when you have your camera sticking out a window at over 100mph! Then there’s the technical issues of shooting from the air not to mention working in a survival suit…but I loved every minute of it.
I get asked a lot about the technical aspects of how I shoot, firstly get it right in camera and you won’t spend hours trying to fix your images later! The number of times I’ve heard “it’s ok I can always sort it later in photoshop”.
Firstly, I always shoot in RAW and only use manual, processed in lightroom then any final adjustments done in photoshop.
For aerial photography a high shutter speed is a must as your traveling at speed and with the vibration of the rotors anything over 1000 at f8 works well then it’s just a matter of concentrating on the image.
And of course a massive thanks to everyone at PDG Aviation who were amazing.
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