Faversham and the family shoot

We recently had a great couple of hours with a family who wanted to give their Mum a Birthday present that would last years. What better than a portrait shoot in their home town. Well done all of you, we know it was cold!

Paris...the most romantic city in the world..on Valentines Day!

For reasons that are a bit complicated, I found myself dans Paris on Valentines day, oh yeah, without my sweetheart which I am still paying for. Anyway, it was a beautiful day and the Tour Eiffel never fails to impress me. OK, it was rammed with tourists and people begging, but which ever way you look at it, it is awesome.

Got me some new studio lights

My three Nikon Speedlights are great for location work, but it's good to have some real power in the studio. 

Thank you very much to Danny at Elemental UK who guided me through what would be best suited to my needs and he came up with this setup of their M series units. All beautifully made and delivered in a great wheelie case. Couldn't recommend them highly enough.

And what better subjects to test them out on than three of the four children who decided that a visit to the fancy dress box was necessary before helping Dad out. And by the way, Harry's (the smallest) hair is a wig although for those who know him could quite easily pass as real!

Everybody's talking about....The Snow of course.

Even readers in far off distant and hot lands probably won't have escaped the fact that the UK has been under snow for the past couple of days. Of course we can't really deal with it on any level so 1 in 3 of us have been staying at home apparently.

I saw this picture heading home one evening on a local building site and decided to brave the elements later that evening and head out with strange looks from children and wife disappearing in the snow behind me.