Such a great event. my second year photographing this for UKSportpics. Two days of practice, qualifying and racing, the London event of the Formula E World Championships completes the season. With a unique track running around and through the centre of Excel it provides challenging racing and a wide variety of opportunities to photograph this dynamic sport
Delighted to be invited by Studio52 to photograph this unique light sculpture that they designed. I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it before, the design, the engineering and the craftsmanship are quite spectacular and brings life to a space otherwise quite void. You need to read the details behind this to appreciate it more, you can find them on this link to Studio52’s summary here https://www.st52.com/
Honoured and delighted to have been given the 2025 Architectural photography award at London’s Surface Design show for my image of Old Billingsgate Rooftops in the City of London
https://www.surfacedesignshow.com/surface-design-awards-winners-2025
First assignment of 2025 and quite a special one to photograph Square Mile Farms operations at the Orangery in New Oxford Street. So grateful for the opportunity to document this very special space and their activities for them.
More on Square Mile Farms here on their website https://www.squaremilefarms.com/
The start of the year is a great time to review work and one thing I have noticed is that during my architectural and interiors assignments just how important the details are. They add context, quality, colour, graphic and purpose and capturing them as images helps our clients with the narrative that allows them to illustrate the project and its value as a whole.
These images come from a wide variety of assignments over the past two years and I would be more than happy share the detailed story behind them, or take look at a few notes on my approach at the foot of this post.
My approach to capturing this type of image recognises the following; (i) an understanding of the project brief, (ii) a good eye, (iii) speed (iv) and understanding of light (v) a notebook and (vi) a proven method of capture. I always walk the space to set out my key shots that will need time to curate. At the same time I look for the those points of detail that will support these key images. These are pretty much all taken handheld using a camera and lens combination that has fabulous stabilisation allowing me to shoot down to 2 seconds when required.
A pretty special event every month London’s fire-spinning community converges by the Thames, with the fire spinners doing their thing just after sunset on Ernie’s Beach in front of Gabriel’s Wharf. Keep an eye out on their Facebook page for the next event
https://www.facebook.com/groups/londonfirespinners
My first visit and certainly a challenge to photograph… so many different options, my approach this time see below.
My initial idea and used to take these images. Long shutter speeds (c.3 secs) to capture the light trails and also set the fire spinning into its setting with the River Thames and City as a wonderful backdrop. Olympus EM1 II with 12-100mm f4 lens and combined stabilisation …one of the best for hand held long exposures
The Serpentine Pavilion 2024 by Minsuk Cho, Mass Studies is rather special, demonstrating physical, personal and cultural space, and one of the best Pavilions of recent years at the Serpentine in my view
Stockwell Bus Garage opened in 1952 and at the time featured Europe’s largest unsupported roof span designed by architects Adie, Button & Partners now listed Grade ll such an iconic building and I can’t believe I haven’t visited it before.
A dream assignment for me mixing work and sports. Quantity Surveyor’s RLB in preparation for the surveyors sevens tournament in May brought staff from across their UK offices to Saracens home at the Stonex Stadium in North London. Warm ups, touch rugby and netball followed by a social at the F1 experience in the evening. Such a great way to bring people together, promote team works and demonstrate some of the RLB principles
Links
RLB Rider Levett Bucknal https://www.rlb.com/europe/
Surveyors Sevens https://surveyorssevens.com/
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