The Humber Bridge, near Kingston upon Hull, England, is a 2,220 m (7,283 ft) single-span suspension bridge, which opened to traffic on 24 June 1981. It is the fifth-largest of its type in the world. It spans the Humber (the estuary formed by the rivers Trent and Ouse) between Barton-upon-Humber on the south bank and Hessle on the north bank, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

This images where taken on an evening visit to the local camera club, it’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to shoot a landscape, as i’m always shooting people,  therefore I took the opportunity to revisit my HDR technique.

Enjoy the images.

What was Photos by Design up to on the day of the Royal Wedding? Well we were out at Anderby Creak on the East Coast of Lincolnshire doing two Photo Shoots, one for Didgesoundtherapy www.didgesoundtherapy.co.uk and also a Cherish the Dress Shoot, which you can catch up with in a future post…

Gregg Chapman, gave us a simple brief, shoot us on the Beach and make it look like Australia…. Hmmm…. not a small task,  but I think you will agree we did our best….

Enjoy the Photos….

Gatton Drum Company offers a very unique product, a Rolls Royce product made from Corian.  These Drums have to be seen up close to see the craftman ship and attention to detail.  Then there is the sound…. phenominal!

I had the pleasure in shooting a new campaign for Lincoln Based owner and craftman of Gatton Drums, Craig Cockrell.  Over the course of the shoot, we covered the whole range of drums and they do sound as good as they look!

This is what Music Radar had to say about Craig and his Gatton Drum, February 2010:

For the products of a young man just beginning his career as a drum maker, this pair of snares are incredibly accomplished. While they’re made from an unfamiliar material, any reservations we had about Corian evaporated the moment we played them. 4/5 Stars.

http://www.gattondrum.com/

info@gattondrum.com

07738 262 360

 Enjoy the images from the shoot……

This shoot took place at one of the offices located at the Mailbox in Birmingham, I cant disclose the name of the office for secuity reasons.

The day allowed us to work with a number of models and make-up artists.

The models appearing in the first part of the shoot are Karmy Panesar from West Bromich and “Fletch” from Enfield.

The model in the final pictures we shall called “lashes” until I can update the blog with her true details.

This was an experimental day, utilising flash and natural light, portrying a lifestyle, magazine approach for the first two models and a fun, bold approach to the third.

Finally, the random shot in the middle of the images is my colleague….. who shall remain nameless….

Enjoy…..

The opportunity arose recently to get some photos of a local body builder.  I’ve wanted to capture some male images for sometime, but the opportunity has never arisen.  A chance meeting in the gym and a few phone calls later and the session was arranged.

Gridded light was used and a low key background to give the images depth and a harder edge.  Experimentation with the light and angles delivered some great shots and considering he’d never been in the studio before, we finished the session with some very respectable images.

enjoy………

Hi All,

As I mentioned in my previous post, it’s been a while since i’ve covered any track days, but this is the first of a two part installment.  5th February saw me at Mallory Park at an event organised by Focused Events, http://www.focusedevents.com/index.asp .

The day was blustery, but no rain which made it an excellent day for track driving.  A little dull for photography, but managed to cope with the poor conditions.

You will notice a lot of images of a yellow 205 Rallye, I make no apologies for this as I was there primarily to cover my cousins day, but I took plenty of the other Track Day cars as well.

As always enjoy….

Over the next few weeks I will be bringing more track day shots to the site. My relative has his own track day cars and shooting moving objects makes a change from people…

Enjoy…

An Early Evening Walk produced some stunning Sky’s…

Enjoy

 I got asked to work with a local artist on some images for his soon to be released album.

Identified a few local locations and set off with the Trusty Nikon, Speedlight and Softbox…..

Got some great images…

Enjoy

Hi All,

Been awhile since I’ve updated the blog, it’s been a little cold to be out and about, but today has proven an excellent day to go out, relax and get some great images.

Only about 10 miles up the road from Lincoln is the Newark Air Museum located on part of the former World War Two airfield of Winthorpe in eastern Nottinghamshire close to the border with Lincolnshire.

you can read more about the Museum here: http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/ 

A great place to visit…

Enjoy the photos..