good old cornish boy

Street photography. You never know what your going to get until you wait
Location: Penzance

Sparks will fly

Old school engineering at its best

Inside the world of interiors

Spent a couple of hours today with Darren from Dub Shack interiors shooting stock for his forthcoming new site. Its Interesting to see how the process comes together. All good info too for the interior work I'll need for the Caravelle project www.thecaravelleproject.co.uk

The Bigger picture

Spare a thought for those guys and girls selling the Big Issue magazine this time of year. It must be super tough standing out there in all kinds of weather. Stop and say hello and buy them a coffee, I always do. They're really interesting people to chat too. Looks like Peter Andre's lovin it as well.....

The Leica Q. There's quality, and there's real quality

Ive been a massive fan of Leica for years now. My first Leica was a X2. A cracking little compact unit with outstanding quality bearing in mind the size of it. Since then, Ive been waiting for Leica to produce a mid level unit. Today, I finally got my hands on a Leica Q.

The Q is proving rather hard to get hold of in the UK at the moment, its unreal. However, after pestering Richard at the Leica Store in Manchester for the last few months, my Q finally landed in Cornwall today. Fantastic!! Ive just experienced what it use to feel like as a little kid at Christmas, only this time, Christmas has come early.

 Knowing what I do about Leica, your never going to be disappointed when you open up that box for the first time. It just says quality all over. The build, the finish, is just epic. I know, I'm sounding a little excited at the moment, but lets face it, you would with one of these babies in your hands!!

Make sure you give Richard a call (0161 834 7755) at the Manchester store if your in the market for one of these little gems. He and the team really know their stuff. 

A massive thank you Richard. Merry Christmas

The dark side of Penzance

There's a grainy and dark look to Penzance through my Leica

Laying it down

Paint time

Bit of branding, bit of building, bit of imaging

Don't get me wrong, I love what I do for a living, but from time to time, its good to get involved with other projects

My first introduction to the digital imaging world

Its amazing to think just how far the world of digital imaging has come in the last 15 years.

In March 2000, I bought my very first digital camera, the Fuji Finepix 4700 zoom. This was the bench mark at the time offering the following spec

The 2.4 Mpixel Fuji FinePix 4700 camera

16Mb SmartMedia card

Two rechargeable NiMH batteries

NiMH battery charger

Hand strap

USB cable

• A/V cable
• Software including Adobe PhotoDeluxe and drivers
• Manuals for camera and software

 I cant begin to imagine whats going to happen in next 15 years in terms of the digital imaging world.

What a diverse week

Its been one hectic week this week. From automotive shoots, to interiors and the Cling Film & Cream tattoo project too. Three 5am starts and a few miles clocked up along the way.

First up was Ben and his re engineered T4 custom Doka. There's some engineering work gone into that build. You might of seen it recently up at Camper Jam. It certainly attracted some attention. We set up a great early morning location for this one, the ex RAF Davidstow base on the other side of Camelford. Can't show you too much of Bens creation as its a pending VW Bus magazine feature. I don't want to spoil it for you.

Location: Camelford

After I got the Doka out of the way, it was off to meet up with Jay. He's the latest addition to the Cling Film and Cream project. An interesting story behind his tat's.

I continued along the tattoo theme with the Lovely Leigh. She's was next addition to the Cling Film and Cream project. I spent a few hours with her capturing some of her beautiful tattoos and listening to the stories behind her ink. Great model to work with, so relaxed and professional. Thank you Leigh.

Then I had Simon's Green T4 to shoot. You don't get any greener than this one! Yet again, I'm limited to what I can show you on this one as its penciled in for another one of the forthcoming VW Bus Magazine features. This one has a very different interior to all the rest Ive seen of late.

Finally, it was over to see Ben Williams. He needed some new imaging for the new web site I'm currently building for him, plus some other shots for his POS and print based material. He does build some epic stuff you know. Superb quality Ben.

David sweet panel van

Go and grab yourself a copy of  Augusts VW Camper magazine this month. Davids lovely 1964 ex swedish barn door spliity has a feature running this month