When it comes to interior photography it doesn’t get much better than this! After battling my way through biblical storms from Shropshire to the Alps I pulled up outside the incredible Chalet Brames in Meribel, France. It has been transformed after a total refurbishment taking almost two years and the end result is spectacular, with superb attention to detail throughout and a beautiful homely feel to the whole place. If you are lucky enough to stay there I can guarantee you won’t want to leave.

Time to shoot a little stock photography for Cultura and I’d got just the spot for it. I’ve waited a long time to shoot at this particular location with the right conditions but ever year something wasn’t right, mostly weather and diary. So with renewed determination for the autumn I kept an eye on the Met Office website with my fingers crossed. Eventually I saw a possible break in the weather coming up. I asked Kevin Harris to come up and model, and after two days sitting out rain and fog we decided to chance it and drive to Wales. By 2.30 in the afternoon we where there and the light was just incredible. After a quick look around we got to work and shot for two and a half hours and I couldn’t have be happier, I’d taken the Rangers with me just in case, but it turned out that we hardly used them, as the large flash in the sky was doing a fine job.

Well here it is again, another year has come and gone and like the first fall of snow flakes in the alps the Snow and Rock catalogue launch heralds the start of the winter. As I said in my post in March, this year was especially challenging with the poor snow fall over the season. We shot it all in Obergurgl where fresh snow was rather thin on the ground, thankfully some of the brief was urban so as you can see from the shot above we had a ball in an underground car park. The Elinchrom’s where on fire for the ten day shoot, this year we used the Quadra flashes as well as the Rangers, and I have to say they where brilliant.

I posted back in June about a shoot I did in Cork, Ireland for Singapore Airlines Silverkris in flight magazine, well happily we managed to get a front cover from the shoot which is great news, I’ve added a few more pictures below from the shoot, which went to places such as Ballymaloe House and Cookery School, Gubbeen Organic Farm, Longville House, The English Market in Cork, which is where the cover was shot, Kinsale, Clonakilty and various other producers and brewers. You can view the actual article here

Here’s a a few shots from a catalogue I’ve shot this month for Mountain Warehouse in Bury St Edmonds and Shropshire. We shot some equestrian pictures for the launch of their new range and we also shot their AW11/12 Outdoor Range. For once the weather was actually on our side and we had a great time at Catherine Peck‘s stables with her magnificent horses. We then headed up to Shropshire and shots some hiking, running, biking and country casual clothing on the Long Mynd and at Lake Vyrnwy   Here a few shots for the country casual ware. 

This month I was back at the Hundred House Hotel, this time I was there to shoot their hotel rooms complete with newly refurbished bathrooms. The rooms are decorated in a French Baroque style and it took quite a bit of post production work to get a descent result. The shot above was a montage of seven images, with a mixture of daylight and tungsten lighting and a splash of flash. The hotel is a popular venue for weddings and you will see most rooms have a swing hanging from the ceiling, I’m surprised there are any tiles left on the roof

Whilst searching through my archive this month I came across a folder from a fishing shoot I did in Cuba many years ago. We had a couple of days in Havana before flying out to the islands so we had a walk around the city and shot some travel pictures, I shot mostly on Black and White negative and I’d never really had a good look at them as they were not part of the brief. Here are a few that caught my eye.