Tales from Wales. September 26th, 2008
With summertime gradually creeping away, I decided to grab one last chance to shoot some lifestyle sports stock for Cultura Images in North Wales. The weather was a little unpredictable but it came good in the end and we had a ball. We braved snakes, swamps, mosquitoes, and Welsh beer!! I used some Profoto flashes on this trip, one ended up in a lake, luckily the brolly kept it afloat long enough to fish it out before it blew up. Towards the end we stumbled upon some great locations for next summer…bring it on!
Many thanks to my good friends Richard Owen of Sun Valley Canoeing Co, and Jim Adlington of Planks Clothing.
London calling. September 19th, 2008
This was a joint shoot for Snow + Rock, Britains largest outdoor sports retailer, and Cycle Surgery, their biking outlets. They wanted to use the last remnants of summer to shoot some running and biking in London City and the surrounding park lands to appeal to the commuter and the office worker making time for a jog. We also had to shoot some mountain biking in Surrey to appeal to to all those city bound bikers who dash out for some action in the evenings. We had the help of Sam Gardner and Emma Davies. Sam had just returned from winning his first Global Tour event, the Xterra in Japan, and Emma was back from the Beijing Olympic games where she represented Ireland in the Triathlon.
It was, as usual with Snow + Rock a fairly fast passed shoot, dashing in and out of traffic in London, changing on pavements, and racing around in cars and vans getting from one park to the next, but we got some pretty good results, even if the weather was, once again, not quite on our side for the whole time.
