At 3am on the 6th of December I turned the car keys in the ignition and drove off my drive, at 9pm I pulled up on the drive way of Chalet Aurore in Meribel. Over the years I’ve sampled my fair share of accommodation from YHA’s to exclusive Alpine Lodges but nothing can prepare you for the Consensio chalets experience. I won’t go into it in too much detail, but when I tell you the chalet next door has it’s own gondola to take it’s owners to the piste…. you get the idea! I had been commissioned to shoot the interiors of their chalets in Meribel and Val d’Isere, shoot some lifestyle in and around the chalets and, possibly, some action pictures of the staff wearing Faiise clothing. I managed to shoot a fair amount but unfortunately the action was missed as bad weather arrived and we had to be out as the first lucky guests arrived.
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I had been working with Ben Benson on the last few days of the Consensio job so it only made sense to stay on for a few days longer and shoot some stock for Getty, so we headed for Vallandry hoping for better weather. The next morning was grey, cold and misty, so I headed down to the river to shoot some running water with a 3 stop ND filter, this holds light back and allows for a longer exposures, which gives you that dreamy effect. When I got down to the water there were some outstanding ice formations on the roots and branches so I spent a few hours scrambling up and down the river bank. I managed to get quite a few nice shots, I really like the stillness of ice against the movement of the water. In the afternoon the weather broke a little so we went up to Vallandry and shot some portraits of Ben with some new Salomon and Bolle gear, and a few landscape pictures as there was a superb sunset cranking. Then we packed our bags again and headed south.
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That evening we arrived in Alpe d Huez on only the second day of their season to find the mountain with a reasonable covering of snow. The next morning was beautiful so we headed up to try and get some ski photography done. Although it’s early and the snow can be dodgy I do love the light at his time of year, I call it “blade lighting” it gets really intense after 2pm and the other bonus is you don’t have to wait long for the sunset. When the snow isn’t the best I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve to make things look a little better, so the use of wide angles, flash, slow shutters speeds and tight detail was the order of the day. Considering what we had to work with we didn’t do too badly. The next morning we where on our way home…job done.
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Having seen the images that I shot for Profeet, the training shoe company Somnio decided that they wanted to use one for an advert, and here you have it, they are a revolutionary new design and they have this to say about it;
“Somnio is founded on the principle that running shoes should adapt to the individual runner and improve biomechanics. Every runner is different, and we believe that every pair of running shoes should be different too. Somnio needed an image to stand out for their advert in Running Fitness Magazine.”
Somnio Running are in stores nationwide, visit, www.somniorunning.co.uk for info.
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What a crazy couple of months that’s been, it’s just flown past. I had made a few plans to shoot stock at some point, but they had to be shelved. October was spent mostly in the office or down in London, it’s a busy time of year with the Ski Show right in the middle of the month, I also had a wedding shoot from September to deliver and I had to edit 3 private shoots for Getty Images.
With October out of the way I started getting ready for a Mountain Warehouse shoot. Read the rest of this entry »
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A while back I did some stock pictures for Getty Images in and around the house, some of them where of my wife Freya’s feet in a bubble bath. We decided at the time that a rubber duck might just be a little too much, funny how you can get things wrong! We found this book cover on Amazon a couple of weeks ago and it made us smile, not only because they used our picture, but because we have 4 kids ourselves, all under the age of 8 and Freya definitely needs some time out, especially when I’m off on a shoot somewhere.
We contacted the publishers to get the cover image you see above and they kindly offered to send us a copy of the book. It’s been a bit of a smash hit in the United States making it to The Today Show, NBC, and Fox News. I’m sure Freya will read it cover to cover……God help me! Check out their website www.momstimeouts.com
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Profeet September 22nd, 2009
Profeet are opening a new concept store on the Fulham road, and it was up to me to furnish it with inspirational images. So they packed their staff into a minibus and picked me up on the way through to a jaunt around North Wales. Read the rest of this entry »
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I’ve spent most of August on or around the beach with my family in Cornwall and Denmark. The kids have had a great time, flying kites, swimming, building sand castles, catching crabs and generally just being crazy. It’s been great fun, I took a few shots of them along the way, not too many though, it’s more about fun than work. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: beach photography, child photographer, child photography, children, cornwall, crabs, kids, lifestyle photographer, lifestyle photography, lifestyles photographer, lifestyles photography, outdoor lifestyle photograph, outdoor lifestyle photography, outdoor photographer, outdoor photography, sand castles, stock photographer, stock photography, summer, summer time
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During the winter months I try and make loose plan’s for the summer months shoots, I create “wish lists” for images and locations, sometimes the ideas come to fruition, sometimes they get shelved for another year. Read the rest of this entry »
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School’s out and the kids are let loose for a week just as summer time gets into full swing. So what better time to shoot some pictures of children enjoying their surroundings! The Woodhall kids are really starting to turn into the best little models, even if they have started to ask for wages. Read the rest of this entry »
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Back in August 2008 I was in the alps shooting some mountain biking stock for Cultura. It seems that Canon liked these pictures too, they have used one for their web advert for the new iP4600 printer. Happy days 
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The Mayfly hatch was a little early this year in Shropshire and the weather was a bit unpredictable, never the less, I went out and had a cast during duffers’ fortnight. Read the rest of this entry »
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