May 2005
F2 magazine
F2 magazine ( a magazine for pro photographers) have this month published a feature on me. The magazine has one of my images on the cover and 5 pages of images and an interview with me.


If you wish to read the feature - please click here, here and here to download the feature as 3 PDF files, 2 pages at a time.

April 2005
MacIntyre's Underworld
Following on from the TV documentary - MacIntyre's Underworld. We returned to Manchester to cover the funeral of Dessie Noonan - who was the brother of the head of the crime family featured in the first documentary. A notorious "hitman", he was murdered on the streets of Manchester 4 days before the programme was aired. The new documentary is still in production to be aired in the autumn.

March 2005
Greendragons flying school
I was asked to design a series of magazine adverts for Greendragons flying school. The brief was to make the adverts stand out from other advertisements that the competition placed in magazines.? Reports from the client are that potential and existing customers have commented on the impact the new adverts have had.

 

Winter / Spring 2005
Bahia Blanca Leisure
I have designed promotional literature for Bahia Blanca Leisure. This is to promote their Holiday Club on Gran Canaria. A variety of posters, members folder and info pack and a golf holiday brochure. The client has commented to me that their members like the high quality literature and the increase in new members that the promotion has brought in.

 


January 2005
RSPB Aerial Photography
I have been commissioned by the RSPB to photograph the majority of their bird reserves around the country. Over the next 8 months each will be photographed from the air giving a aerial catalogue of all their reserves.





Autumn 2004
Aerial Photography
Autumn was busy this year doing aerial survey photos for 2 landfill site operators. Covering over 100 sites around the country, the images are used alongside the engineering drawings to enable an overview of sites.
July 2004
Hewlett Packard "You take Five" photo essay
I have learnt that from thousands of entries I have been short listed as one of five finalists in their worldwide competition. I submitted five images from La Tomatina festival in Spain


July 2004
Great Chateaux wines of Bordeaux
A personal project covering the 1st Grand Cru wines of the Bordeaux region of France. This started with a tour of the famous vineyards and now still lifes of those great wines.



June 2004
Bahia Blanca - Gran Canaria
3 day trip to Gran Canaria to photograph a Norfolk company's holiday apartments plus working with them in the design of their brochure.

April 2004
A G Pearce (Setch) Ltd
International Fruit and vegetable merchants commissioned me to shoot images for their new brochure. This covered still lifes, the growing and processing of their numerous products.


April 2004
MacIntyre Undercover UK
Undercover series on UK Crime Families. I was tasked with surveillance photos of a Manchester gangster plus other stiils for use within the TV programme.

Feb 2004
Kerela - India
Trip to India to photgoraph the southern state of Kerela. Took in the Backwaters, the coast and tea plantations before a few days in Goa and Mumbai



10th October 2003
MacIntyre UK Undercover
Over the summer been involved in the making of Donal MacIntyre's new undercover series for Five. The series started with an investigation into Care homes for the elderly. "Who cares for Granny". 4 other subjects being covered in the series.

16th April 2003
BBC Leonardo series
Updated: You can now see the stills and read about this fascinating project to produce a hang glider from the one and only sketch made by Leonardo da Vinci.

3rd February 2003
New photos
gliding, paragliding and hang gliding
I have added some stunning new photos to the Airsport website. These are a small selection of those now on file.
8th January 2003
Happy New Year to you all.
Just received some stunning Paragliding images from Jimmy Hall in Hawaii. A selection can be seen on the Paragliding page.
8th December
Tiger articles Published
My feature interview with Valmik Thapar on Tiger protection has been published in two magazines this month.
Action Asia in Hong Kong and Man and Nature magazine in China.
Interesting to see my article printed in Chinese.
6th November
Scuba Diving - Belize
I am off doing travel and underwater photography in Belize. Should anyone be interested in feature and or pics, please email me to view a selection of pics on my return.

Its a bummer this work - but someone has to do it ;-)
  1st November
Website hits
October has seen more hits on the site than ever before. Stats for October recorded 146420 hits.

October 9th
BBC Wild Weather / Steve Leonards Extreme Animals

The ice climbing sequence I shot in Chamonix for Wild Weather is next week. Mountain Guide, Russell Brice climbing with Donal MacIntyre. Wed 9th Oct at 9.00pm

Extreme Animals which I arranged for Rob Whittall / Bob Drury to fly Steve Leonard with vultures is being shown the same evening. I haven't seen the footage but the Director tells me its spectacular. Wed 9th Oct at 8.00pm

 

October 2nd
BBC Wild Weather

Wild Weather series has started and last night showed me flying Donal MacIntyre in the monsoon. Helmet and sunglasses made me unrecognisable, thankfully. Many of the stills I shot on this trip to India have been used by the BBC to promote the series.

 

October 1st
Web site hits

This site is proving to be popular with you all. I received my monthly report from my web server of 71953 hits

September 16th
London Fashion Week

Something new for me, a commission to shoot behind the scenes of a fashion show. Designer, Justin Oh was sponsored by the Cotton Council USA and they wanted reportage type shots of the day. Pretty girls, just wished they would smile a bit.