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New photos

This afternoon I attended the ever fun Dr Sketchy drawing session in London; for those unfamiliar with these events, they’re a mixture of burlesque cabaret and silly sketch assignments where the focus...

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New camera and pics

I recently decided to splash out on a brand spanking new Canon EOS 5D Mark III as an extravagant gift to myself, along with a couple of new lenses, including a Canon 17-40mm f/4 L, a Canon 70-200mm...

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Vuvuvultures

I shot Vuvuvultures live at The Lexington in London last night, and have uploaded my photos to my Flickr account. The band is totally worth checking out if you like edgy rock, so head over to their...

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New gig photos

I’m currently taking a well-earned break from VFX studio work for a while, and am using the time to catch up on some gig photography again. Last night I shot a few metal bands playing at Underworld in...

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Agnostic Front shoot

Last night I shot NY hardcore legends Agnostic Front live on stage at Underworld in Camden, for MetalMouth.net. The gig was great fun with loads of energy and I had a good time shooting until the...

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Firewind shoot

Last night I shot popular Greek power metallers Firewind and their opening band, the Norwegian/German outfit Leaves’ Eyes, at the O2 Academy in Islingon, London for MetalMouth. Power metal isn’t...

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New photography site

Since I’ve been shooting so many gigs lately, I figured it was high time to establish a band photography identity online that’s separate to this site. You can find it over at High Voltage Shots!  

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Latest…

As projects in Soho are pretty slow right now, I’m still between VFX gigs, so I’m teaching an eight week course on painting environment textures in Photoshop, over at CGWorkshops, while I wait for...

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Painting

So I figured I’d get stuck into a bit of painting again, as I haven’t done any in, well, years. About a decade ago I read a really great book called Calenture by Storm Constantine, and something I...

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2013 Reel

My latest showreel is now online! Click the image below to open the Quicktime clip (76Mb) in a new window.

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Goodbye Steve Jobs ;_;

Today the world said goodbye to a true visionary who changed the face of modern computing, and took a niche product brand and turned it into an international household name. Steve Jobs will be greatly...

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Hello 2012

Happy new year everyone. To kickstart 2012, I’ve begun the process of collating and updating my numerous old texturing tutorials, which were in dire need of some attention. I’ll begin putting them back...

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New photo on Flickr

I attended the annual London Tattoo Convention over the weekend, and snapped quite a few shots of all the decorated people there. This man was doing traditional hand-tapped tribal tattooing.

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