Aunt Marie’s Kitchen – Tablet and Cakes!
Hazel Caldwell, and her husband Brian, of Aunt Marie’s Kitchen makes Scottish tablet and cakes – and I love both of those!! I could not think of a better place to begin a new personal project documenting small craft based businesses in my new local area. I call this project ‘People and Process’ and it […]
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 […]
Midland Financial Solutions – for Financial Advice
Midland Financial Solutions Ltd. provide independent financial advice to individuals, businesses and to clients of professional firms such as solicitors and accountants. They are in the process of updating their website and images so I popped over to see what I could do for them 🙂
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 […]
The Paper Dress
Even though I mainly work with commercial clients these days I am not averse to helping out students with fashion and art based projects – especially when the student is my daughter Gwen! Gwen had created a paper folded dress piece before for her art course but was never very happy with it so she […]
Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy – New Bennerley Building
The Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy recently opened its new Bennerley Building, a £7.49 million investment in education. English, Maths and Science are already using the building and settling in well. I was given the opportunity to go around the new building, as well as the existing facilities at the school, to take images of everything from […]
Jill Kerr – Lino Cutter
I have been working with Artsbeat Magazine to photograph artists in their studios and the next artist on the list was Jill Kerr – a Lino cutting and print expert. Jill lives in a beautiful house and work in a fabulous studio in the garden. Her work is of the highest standard and it was […]
Eddie Hallam – Master Sculptor
I love watching artists at work and learning about their craft. Artsbeat Magazine features artists every month and I have been lucky enough to be asked to visit various artists in the area and capture them, their studio and their work for the magazine. Eddie Hallam, of Wildlife Sculptures, lives and works in the shadow […]
Vintage Model Company – Magnificent Flying Machines!
When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time building models out of balsa wood and tissue, mostly yachts, and once I built a control-line diesel engine powered plane. I was not that great at flying it but I did enjoy the process of building and the smell of the engine! many people […]
Commercial and Industrial Photographer for Edinburgh, the Highlands, Lothian and Borders of Scotland 