Guerilla Lighting – Competition Update!
Back in October last year I took part in the Findhorn Bay Arts Festival Guerilla Lighting event at Kinloss Abbey (see this blog post) and as a part of that I entered a number of my images into the photography competition… well I have just found out that one of my photos has been selected as a […]
Towheads on the Move
Just before Christmas I took on what proved to be one of the biggest jobs I have ever done- photographing the moving of towheads (they go on each end of an oil pipeline in the north sea) from Invergordon to Wick, and all points in-between. This is the story of that job. deugro are a […]
Orkney – The Broch of Gurness
On to the Broch of Gurness on Orkney, the third part of my brief visit to the islands. Brochs are an Iron Age building that can look a little like a modern power station cooling tower. Large, circular, tall and tapering they are all over the place on Orkney – although mostly as a ring […]
Orkney – A Personal Visit
I had always wanted to go to the Orkney Isles and in October I finally got the chance to spend a few days there. There is so much to say about the islands that I am going to write a few smaller blog posts now each focusing on something different. In this post, I want […]
Guerilla Lighting at Kinloss Abbey
As part of the Findhorn Bay Festival, 2016, I booked myself on the guerilla lighting event at Kinloss Abbey. It was a chance to photograph the Abbey ruins at night with a whole variety of professional lighting set ups, including a pixel stick! Despite the looming rain and the increasing wind I took my time and […]
ARCA – Asbestos Removal Training Experts
ARCA, the Asbestos Removal Contractor Association, offer a wide range of training courses to suit asbestos removal businesses and the individual worker needs, setting the benchmark for performance. So I was delighted to be asked to spend a few days with them, at their training facility, putting together a library of images to be used […]
Roger Waterhouse – Master Wood Turner
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of photographing a master woodturner, Roger Waterhouse, at his workshop. Roger lives and works at the edge of his own woods and so has a constant supply of materials waiting to, literally, be turned into something wonderful. One technique he showed me was deliberately burning the wood and […]
Heidi Gibbs – The Bank Pottery
Heidi Gibbs is a potter working out of her delightful studio near Crowdecote in Derbyshire called “The Bank Pottery“. She was the latest artist I have photographed for Artsbeat Magazine. Heidi teaches classes at her studio an in local colleges so her work is very diverse with everything from animals to cups & saucers and […]
Commercial and Industrial Photographer for Edinburgh, the Highlands, Lothian and Borders of Scotland 