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The cat's whiskers...
A trip to the Birmingham NEC this weekend for The Supreme Cat Show. It's the feline equivalent of Crufts and over 1300 cats all in one place should make for good photos. Should being the operative...
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Potted history and parsnip wine
Chatting on Facebook today I was reminded about my days back on the local evening newspaper, The Northants Evening Telegraph. To be specific, working with their gardening correspondent Nick Warliker...
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Sad to say I haven't been able to post about my last 2 weeks worth of work as the stuff I wanted to comment on hasn't been published yet! So instead, I thought I'd comment on this. It's an article by...
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Religion and clementines
God's light fell on me this week, along with several centimetres of snow at Luton in Bedfordshire.I was there to illustrate a background piece on the story about Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, the...
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Happy Christmas!
It's that time of year again. Happy Christmas to all my blog readers and here's hoping for a happy and prosperous new year. My card this year shows the Jesus Hospital in Rothwell, the little town I...
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Sven,Sven,Sven
Foxes play Citizens at Leicester today, or if you prefer, Leicester City FC are at home to Manchester City FC. Leicester's Manager is the one and only Sven Goran Eriksson who I photographed at the...
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Lessons from a life well travelled
(Number plate on this photo digitally removed) Traveller Noah Burton. Lessons from a travelling man. Well, perhaps more observations of a travelling man.I've been an editorial photographer for a long...
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Let there be light
Sometimes in this job things simply don't go to plan. Like this week when the subject of my shoot arrived just as it was pretty much dark-nine minutes after five at this time of year isn't a great...
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Good news-there's no bad news
I've lost count of the number of times people have told me that newspapers are only ever interested in the bad news. It's not true of course, but the sad thing is that they tend to remember the bad...
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Lady Luck and Supergran
Oops! I seem to have missed one of my weekly blog posts :-( I had intended to write a piece about how luck plays an important part in a photographers work. In fact leaving this for a week has proven...
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The truth is often stranger than fiction
Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction. Some of the things I've seen, you just couldn't make them up. Like this week's job for The Sun via the excellent Barcroft Media who are always...
View ArticleConversation at the chemists
Whilst waiting at the chemists for my prescription this weekend I was amused by the antics of somebody visiting to have their passport photo taken. It was a woman along with her husband and teenage...
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Into the vortex
Last week was one of those where despite being busy, I have nothing to show for it on here as my pictures have been held over and not published yet. Probably something to do with the fact that...
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Whether the weather
Continuing with my theme of the weather- sometimes it can be a hindrance if you are a photographer, but at other times it's possible to turn it to your advantage, as I did this week. I was...
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Where there's a wall there's a way
I'm not a big fan of brick walls as backgrounds but sometimes it's all thats available-and in this case just what The Guardian's picture desk had asked for! My photo shows security doorman Uzi who...
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Zombie Friday
Friday 29th April was THE big news job in London. The Royal Wedding-Prince William marrying Kate Middleton. I was a tad disappointed to be shunted off into a siding and not actually covering the...
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It Asda be right
Yes, it Asda be right. Here are two photos I took of chef Chris Lawrence yesterday for a well known supermarket chain,(!!). On the right is straight out of the camera and on the left a tweaked version...
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Chelsea blues
I've woken up today with a bruised arm and feet like Billy Hayes from that film 'Midnight Express' after he has the soles of his feet beaten by Turkish prison wardens. Yes-my annual visit to The RHS...
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Pippa'd to the post
One of those jobs this week where The Telegraph found out at the last minute that Pippa Middleton was competing in the GE Blenheim Triathlon at Blenheim Palace. Unfortunately I arrived shortly after...
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Road trip
Last week saw me in Jack Kerouac mode, with a three-day road trip up and down Britain. I've always enjoyed travelling so The Telegraph's assignment was right up my street. The trip started in Suffolk...
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