One of my very favourite clients is the Heatherley School of Fine Art. They do some fantastic events throughout the year, and January marks the exhibition of work by the staff in the Bankside Gallery.

(Part one and part two if you missed them.) And so to the last third of the year. I did get one happy bit of news in the summer – having bought the new Canon 1DX earlier in the year,…

If part one slipped past you, it’s here.

Well, that was all a bit rubbish, wasn’t it?

When I ordered my Canon 1DX Mk2s a few months ago, I hadn’t spotted that I was also entering a competition run by Wex Photographic. First I knew was that I’d won it, and I’d landed a day’s workshop with…

This is really part of a much bigger theme of “how we undervalue our work”, I suppose, but I’m sometimes asked a simple question: “can I buy a print of that?”. (It’s about many other things too – it’s about…

Quite a night, tonight…

It’s only mid-January, and surely one of the year’s most memorable events is already done and dusted. I was honoured to get an invitation from Zoe Margolis to come and make pictures as 11 incredibly talented acts gave their time…

A beautiful site, Exposure. And what the legendary event showman – and many other things – Matt Desmier (pictured below) did with it really blew me away. I don’t think I’ve seen a better use of a set of event…

I’d never thought of myself as gullible. Quite the reverse, to be honest. Master of the Snopes. Debunker of the flimsy tale. And all that. Not quite so much now, though.

As I did a year ago, I’ve picked out a few favourites from the year just gone – as much to remind myself of all that flew past as for anything else. Some I’ve published before in one place or…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about costs and pricing for photography. Unsurprisingly, really – I send out a bunch of quotes every day for photography work, big and small. Making the right call is vital to putting food on…