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Quite possibly the greatest team photo ever!

2011-07-16T14:29:47Z

There's so much to say about this shot:

1/ It's the location that was used to film large parts of The King's Speech and I was able to use not just the consulting room but also bits of the furniture, including the iconic sofa.

2/ The large painting of Lady Diana hangs in the corner of the room... impressive and odd in equal measure. Daily Mail readers would love it!

3/ This was a one time, single shot. I just arranged everyone quickly, set the timer, ran in and this is what we got. One single shot with every person captured ok!

4/ Every person may well have been captured ok, however 'one of these kids is doing their own thing!' There's 10 people in the shot including 2 models, as well as an oil painting of Lady Di and yet a certain Daisy Hollingdale (my 2nd assistant) is OWNING this picture!

A big thanks goes to everyone in this shot, all of whom contributed to an amazing shoot!

Back Row (l-r)

Josh - Allora Visuals | Fadi Fawaz | Lady Diana | Me | Karl Gregory

Front Row (l-r)

Emma Rice | Mary-Jane Gotidoc | Lotte | Daisy Hollingdale | Cat Watson

Floor

Our super sexy model for the day - Lauren Mellor from Union

Location - 33 Portland Place

Light test from Vera Simon bridal shoot

2011-07-16T14:27:10Z

A quick light test whilst on set shooting bridal gowns and no-one other than Karl realised what was going on!

Team Photo from the Lingerie Buyer 'English Garden' shoot.

2011-07-16T14:24:48Z

Step ladders and swimming caps!

Hair!

2011-05-31T21:59:22Z

Loving these images from a recent shoot. It's been ages since I shot some beauty and I'm very happy with these! There's quite a few more from the shoot but they'll be sent off to the retouchers soon...

camera grab from lingerie shoot

2011-04-29T17:17:48Z

Girls Must Have

2011-04-27T17:05:38Z

A sneaky peak of some images I shot for the Girls Must Have look book earlier in the year. Great model, team, client and brief! The client was a big fan of not over complicating things, just assembling a good team and shooting things simply, so the fab brief was simply to shoot daylight in the studio and give it a polaroid feel...

Larger images visible in the fashion gallery.

Honda Results

2011-04-12T14:12:48Z

I've just realised I haven't got around to posting the Honda shots up! The press embargo was lifted in March which seems like ages after shooting them!

March Madness!

2011-04-12T14:04:33Z

March was another busy month, shooting, prep'ing, pitching... the normal photographer stuff! One of the shoots was for a lookbook swimwear manufacturer Max Cleavage which we shot in the Clic La Mode Studio. A nice fun shoot over 2 days with a great team!

Emma test - 16/2/11

2011-02-16T22:00:44Z

Emma and I don't shoot enough... it's here that I could throw in a handful of different excuses about needing to shoot different things for our books, not having much time etc etc but the fact of the matter is that we should shoot far more than we do!

Well we managed to shoot a little something this morning and it just proves that we should shoot together more!

A very busy start to the year! Honda and more...

2011-02-15T17:30:00Z

It's been a very busy start to the year! I had back to back shoots all the way through January. No chance for a day off at all in January hence my lack of blog posts, so expect a flurry of updates in the next few days!

I was very excited to shoot for Honda at the beginning of January which was great fun... I'm not able to say too much or release the pictures yet but a cheeky couple of behind the scenes pics are enough for a little tease at the moment! There was a huge team involved with the shoot and only having confirmation of being able to shoot with the CRZ just a couple of days before the shoot made it all quite fun!

I'm very pleased with the results though and will post them as soon as I can.