Very pleased to recently receive the achievements of being ranked third in the United Kingdom, and fifth in the World for Still Life photography voted by the esteemed judges at the One Eyland Awards 2019. The judging panel are made up mostly from creative directors from advertising agencies around the world, the exact people you…
This project came about with a chance meeting with a model ( Sofia Jaskowsky ) during a shoot at an exhibition. Swapping details we later got in touch discussing the idea of a collaboration. The project was to involve Sofia’s hand modelling skills and my background in drinks photography. Liking the idea of a lifestyle…
February saw me take another trip to Bristol to the headquarters of the Las Iguanas restaurant chain to shoot some new menu cocktails for Bacardi brands. These shoots are always colourful reflecting the Latin American heritage of the brand. This time the brief was to simply incorporate some fabrics and use hard light creating strong…
Earlier this year I won a commission to do some creative drinks photography for Courvoisier of three of their Cognac’s to run as ads for the Chinese market. These were all shot in the studio following briefs supplied from the agency, and with initial post production carried out adding all the different lighting elements together…
This week we have been shooting the beautiful bottles for the London Essence Company, comprising of their three tonic waters, the Classic, Grapefruit & Rosemary, Bitter Orange & Elderflower and their delicate Ginger Ale. The objective of the shoot was to illustrate the beauty of the multi faceted bottles, the Classic Tonic was the…
As promised here are a few of the final shots from the Patrón Margarita shoot in February at the London Edition Hotel. Apparently Margaritas are going to be BIG this year so get your straws ready, this whole shoot was showing different Margarita cocktails all made using Patrón Tequila. Also while I’m at it I thought…
This week we celebrated the arrival of our five clients from Absolute Productions in India and the advertising agency handling the shoot for Pernod Ricard’s brand Blenders Pride Whisky. It was a fun filled week with brilliant clients, a great deal of whisky was thrown about the studio which meant that arriving in the morning…
We had a second visit to the London Edition hotel last month shooting for Patrón, with the guys from Five by Five, in the Punch room. The shoot was of a variety of Patrón Margarita cocktails all served in Minature Patrón bottles, some of which had the cork stoppers expertly drilled out by Mark with paper straws…
We spent a very messy two days throwing red paint around the studio, shooting hundreds of liquid arcs from which the best selected images will be retouched to form a complete liquid circle. The final image will be used on a bank’s credit and debit cards alongside advertising material. At the end of the shoot…
Well it’s that time of year when we all make New Year’s resolutions which normally fall to the wayside by mid Feb. This year apart from the usual exercise more, eat better, drink less rituals that we all try and subscribe to, I have decided that it is time I took my social media responsibilities…
