A selection of images from recent architectural shoots.
Category Archives: Commercial
Clive and the SBA
I recently photographed Clive down on Plymouth’s Barbican for the SBA. The photographs where commissioned to illustrate an article on the SBA’s website profiling Clive’s story and the help he had received from them. The SBA is a charity that provides support for solicitors and their dependants in the UK, follow this link to read the full article.
Recent commercial shoots
Some images from recent commercial work that I’ve been doing.
Interior work
I’ve been photographing a lot of property lately, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to put some up on the site. The image above is of the main living area in one of the flats at the Royal William yard here in Plymouth. The room is huge and to get this final image took thirty individually lit pictures, which were then re-combined in Photoshop to produce the finished product.
Part of the joy in being a photographer is going to different places and seeing behind closed doors, so getting to take pictures of this luxury flat was great.
The Flat has a contemporary open plan living area and kitchen, it has to be one of the biggest single room spaces I’ve been in.
Jon
Age UK Exeter 10K Run
A really, really cold day! Everyone seemed to be having a good time, even if they where turning blue…
A big congratulations to Tom Merson for winning the men’s race in time of 00:31:15, with Dan Nash second and Ollie Garrod in third. The women’s race was won by Martha Neal with Clare Hodgson second and Jessica Craig coming home third.
I was on location for SportCam and images of the race can be seen on their site here.
Age UK have the ‘Wrap up and Run’ event’s throughout the country to raise funds and awareness for old people within the UK. You find out more about them here.
Deviation
Photomontage is one of those techniques that I dabbled with back in the day. Many hours in the darkroom printing then cutting out and sticking together, before re-photographing and maybe the odd bit of painting to hide the joins.
Roll forward a few years, add Photoshop and Deviantart is awash with photographic manipulation! I have to say I enjoy mixing images together as much now as I did back in my college years.
For those of you out there who have no idea what Deviantart is, it’s a place where artist’s amateur and professional can showcase their art and idea’s and is well worth a look.
These are just a few of the images I’ve worked up over the last year, I have two Deviantart ID’s for my work.
These images and others can be viewed here.
My professional showcase is here.
Bushblok
During a trip to Namibia I was lucky enough to visit the Bushblok factory and meet some of the guys and girls who work there. I was shown around by Alfred Hendricks (pictured right). Alfred has been part of the team for a number of years and has worked his way up from harvesting Acacia to factory foreman.
Bushblok is project set up by the CCF (Cheetah Conservation Fund) in Namibia, the primary goal being to reduce thorny bushes in Cheetah habitat. We should all be aware that the Cheetah is an endangered species but the Bushblok project highlights a lesser known issue that Cheetah face. Cheetah are reliant on their excellent eyesight and speed but larger bush density means they can have less space to get up to speed when hunting. More importantly a scratch to the eye from an Acacia thorn can blind the animal instantly.
As a side note I picked up a flat tyre on my hire car from a piece of Acacia branch the plant is like steel, solid with little give and thorns that are 4-5 inches in length.
Acacia although native is an invasive species and in Namibia as with many other parts of Africa the wildlife that would naturally keep these plants in check are increasingly being forced into reserves. So the Bushblok was started to tackle the issue, essentially a team is constantly working in the field chopping down and chipping bush. These chippings are then either sold as is, or sent to the factory where it is compressed into fuel logs.
So all in all a great idea and project. I had been out in the field with the team that was cutting bush but all the images I took where backed up to a hard drive that failed. I lost a lot of work to that tech issue, I think humidity was the cause.
If you want to know more about Bushblok and the CCF here are there links.