Film stills for Shell

Another memorable one – some stills in-between filming with TV presenters Jake Humphrey and Vicki Butler-Henderson. All the more memorable because of the trips in the back of the Porsche and Maserati, first trying to take pictures with heavily pregnant Vicki driving pretty much flat out, and then the 3-laps at the end of the day with the pro racing driver on set, driving the Porsche completely flat out. Exhilarating and terrifying in equal measure..

State Opening of Parliament 2014

After the rehearsal the real thing. The challenge every year is to get new shots as I’m standing in the same places, watching a meticulously planned ceremony that hasn’t changed for many a year. Usually it’s the people around the edges that make for interesting pictures.

 

State Opening Rehearsal 2014

Trying to catch up here with a few of the more interesting jobs of late..

 

London Mayor Boris Johnson

A morning with London’s ever entertaining Mayor, Boris Johnson, for Square Mile Magazine on a visit to Smithfield’s meat market in East London. He initially received quite a mixed reaction from the workers there, most unhappy at having to pay Congestion Charge to get home in the mornings after working all night, but his slightly ‘bumbling’ style won most over – and you have to hand it to him, he does cycle everywhere, complete with Sellotaped helmet, something I can’t imagine his New York equivalent doing. Positioning of B.J. Meats sign a bit of a godsend, and did his arch-nemesis Ken Livingstone leave something behind?

Oil folk

Blessed with a great sky for some Shell guys at one of their tanker ports

Angela Merkel addressing both Houses of Parliament

Exciting day yesterday photographing the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, visiting Parliament to address both Houses. Love the shot of the ‘duelling lenses’, and interestingly if you look carefully you can see a tiny ear-piece in Mr Cameron’s ear, up until then I’d been very impressed that he’d understood the Chancellor’s speech in German without needing the unsightly, potential hairdo ruining, headphones that everyone else had been wearing!

Moorhouse Consulting

Some portraits of the nice folk at Moorhouse Consulting a couple days ago, great to walk into their office and see some of my previous work for them, black and white street stuff, going up on their walls and being used on the covers of their publications.