News

Giving Back - Being an Enterprise Advisor
I know I spooked a lot of you some time ago when I changed jobs. Everyone thought I wasn’t being a photographer any more when I listed myself as an Enterprise Advisor. If you look on my LinkedIn, I am still an Enterprise Advisor. But no, I wasn’t changing my…

DJI Drones
I spotted this week DJI, which if you’ve followed some of my recent posts over recent times, my drone and my action camera are both DJI. Actually my microphone is DJI as well. So, I’m not a fanboy of any companies these days, but DJI stuff is very good. It…

Porsche Carrera GT - High-End Car Shoot
So, I’ve always had cars in my portfolio. Being able to shoot the first private hire Tesla back in 2015 now, when Phoenix Taxis took that one over. It was a fantastic shoot in the wilds of Rothbury. Roll forward to this year, having a good chat with Karl, my…

New Office
Fifteen years I’ve been taking pictures for money – might be a touch more than that, might even be 16 years. I can remember the time I got my first camera. There’s an easy one to write around that, because it was a trip around Europe in 2007 when I…

Doing It All…
I’ve seen a lot of posts recently, I don’t know if it’s the time of year for it or it’s a push from social media gurus to say that you need to showcase your business in this way. But I’ve seen a lot of posts from photographers and other small…

Marks & Spencer Newcastle - Retail Shoot
So, I do love having my diary all planned out and figured out what I’ve got in the coming week, so I can plan out shoots and do a bit of planning to really get the best out of each of the shoots. But then, now and again, these curveball…

The last six months…
I’ve talked about it a lot of times, I’ve had advice from so many people and I see so many posts – certainly at the start of the year – about business planning and what you’re doing this year and what’s this year going to look like and all of…

Building Connections on the Golf Course
It’s funny… I was sat in a carpark, just about to get all my equipment out of the car for my next shoot, (Pardoe Wray, which you can see the pictures from here). And I think, it’s another one of those FORE Business kind of days. So, I’m sat wearing…

A New Bit of Equipment
I’m sure I’ve said before, I’m a recovering gearhead, which I think all photographers, I think we always like shiny new toys and it’s often how we get into the industry. ‘Oooh that’s nice,’ and then you’ve got to do a bit of work to kind of pay that off…

Catapult - Showcase Shoot
When Catapult got in touch last year, I wasn’t expecting to be necessarily involved in as many projects as I have been. I think we’re on number four now of case studies and promo pieces on projects that they’re supporting at the moment and the variety of work that they…

On ADHD Meds…
There’s been a shortage in the UK of ADHD meds for, I don’t know, at least the last 12 months and up till recently I was quite lucky that it didn’t affect me, in the sense that I’ve been able to get my meds and not had a problem. I…

The Umbrella Project - On Tour
I mention a lot about Celebrate Difference, and they’re one of the organisations I support as much as I can since they’ve supported me so much over the last few years, and even more so since I got my diagnosis for ADHD. So when they launched last year the Umbrella…

City Baths - Location Shoot
I was really happy to have two messages from people around the country through FORE Business, through Michael Stewart and Brian Hardy, both of which I’ve known for quite a while; Michael in person for many, many, many, many, years - it’s coming up 20 years near enough, wow, that’s…

My ADHD Diagnosis Journey
I’m now three-and-a-half years into my ADHD diagnosis. I was diagnosed in December 2021 (thanks, Nic). And that journey has obviously had its challenges, it’s had its pitfalls, it’s had the social media battles about ‘everybody getting diagnosed’ and then people questioning diagnosis processes. The BBC Panorama programme was horrific…

AI Headshots
I seem to be getting adverts at the minute. It seems to be - again… another ‘new thing that it’s another risk to my business and to my livelihood and all that and I’m not going to have a career again.’ And it’s AI headshots. I don’t know if you…

Go North East - Apprentice Week BTS
So if somebody said ‘Go North East’ to me now, I know most of you would think of buses and getting from A to B – for me it’s slightly different! Not because I don’t use the bus, more so that if somebody says ‘Go North East,’ I smile and…

Taylor Wimpey - Community Shoot
Taylor Wimpey’s been such a big company in the local area for that long now and producing some fantastic houses all over the North East and further afield. To be able to shoot for them on numerous occasions now has been really good. This shoot in particular was engaging with…

Selling Kit
I’ve been very good the last couple of years, I’ve been very good, that sounds as though I, you know, it’s a challenge and a race, it’s far from it… Business-wise, the equipment I’ve had over the years has obviously accumulated and more recently, I’ve really honed in on the…

Go North East - Long Service Awards
Over the last 12 months or so, it’s been fantastic working with Go North East, the staple of the North East’s infrastructure and I feel like I’ve worked in many different bits of it now. I think it started off with the award ceremonies which we’ve got again this this…

Quantum House - Golf Day Shoot
As a golfer, I get asked to shoot golf days often and I always like the idea of getting something different and I think most of the golfers in the North East now maybe haven’t had something different, because they’re being shot by me. But for the last few golf…

Celebrate Difference at The Hub, Consett
Around this time two years ago, I was posting very regularly about this new space that was coming in Consett. I say that I was saying it two years ago, I’ve talked about it a lot since and I’ve been just amazed by it ever since. It’s not something that’s…

Chance to Shine - Cricket in Schools
Chance to Shine is a cricket-based charity getting young people, from areas that aren’t necessarily associated with cricket, into the game by taking current professionals and putting them in schools and getting kids to have a bit of a play and sort of encourage the street cricket that goes on…

Phil Mustard - Sporting Headshots
This photo was taken a good couple of years ago – it popped up in one of my one of my memories recently and it was it was a great shoot to be part of. I managed to play golf with the man, the myth, the legend, Mr Phil Mustard,…

Dysart - Location Shoot
It may have been the windiest day I’ve ever been to in Consett, and that’s saying something! If you’ve been Consett before, you know it’s windy a lot of the time - and often snowing! I’m friends with lots of people in Consett and I tell them exactly the same…

Photography to Personal Training - Website Shoot
Around five years ago, I got an email from a student, Sean, from my old school, Prudhoe High School, who was desperate to get into photography and wanted some help to get started on the journey and I said, “Let’s have a cuppa!” We went to the Caffé Ginevra, when…

Using Format