GKN Global annual report
The brief was to shoot a series of very graphic black & white shots at some of GKN’s multinational global businesses. The schedule for the shoot meant shooting in locations not only around England but France, Germany and America too. The subjects were all heavy industrial and extremely complex. This meant a lot of pre planning and a great deal of travelling to complete all the locations and subjects the client required. Continue…
Graphis book Icelandic landscape selected for inclusion
One of the landscape shots from my shoot in Iceland that has been selected for inclusion into another edition of the Graphis Photography book.
This particular shot is of the Svartsengi Geothermal power station at the Blue lagoon.
The Blue Lagoon
Developing creative style
A second Rotovision book project again with writer Terry hope. This one on Architecture, developing style in creative photography, using my award winning landscape series on Bodie a ghost town in California as examples.
I’ve written about the way I compose, my technique & the way I work with light.
Developing creative style
Composition.
I was contacted by writer Terry Hope who told me he had seen the black & white portraiture series I’d done of americans which had been selected for inclusion in the Association of Photographers awards. He was busy writing a photographic book about composition for publishers Rotovision and really wanted to include my shots in the forth coming book.
Portrait Ron Bambridge composition
Californian ghost town of Bodie.
I entered images from my recent Californian shoot around Gold rush country into the 15th Association Awards.
An assignment for English Heritage annual report, designed by Wordsearch, had me producing a series of images to show some of their substantial regeneration and rebuilding projects around the country. I met some fascinating people during the shoot and discovered some amazing architecture. I also got an insight into the work that EH do. Just three pictures shown here. First one is the incredible interior of Wiltons Music Hall built in 1850. Discreetly tucked away in a quiet East London street the entrance is hardly noticeable, but once inside, the stunning interior of the worlds oldest music halls is revealed.
Californian portraits in gold rush country.
During my previous trips to California, I’d ended up in some very out of the way places on my route, where I’d often come across really interesting people. Whenever I did, I asked if I could take their picture and most of the time, all were very happy to allow me to do it.
I’d always prefer to find an interesting backdrop or interior if I could. With these four portraits I love the the directness in the way they posed.
Winner in the Environmental series category The London photographic awards.
Californian gold rush landscapes. I’d been researching the Gold rush areas of California and found some particular areas I wanted to see and explore. I became fascinated with the history of some of these places and how they became abandoned after the Gold that had been discovered there, ran out. The picture here shows just three shots from the work that I produced appearing in the London photographic awards book that year. I won the environmental series category with this series of images.
My Singapore barbers chair winner environmental colour category LPA.
On assignment in Singapore shooting for a client in London. I had just one day free to explore the city. It’s an amazing place, but very modernized with not much of the original architecture still standing to see.
I did though manage to a find few very old streets and see some extremely interesting things. This shot is actually of a barbers shop setup in a street market.
Singapore barbers chair
It was complete with the barber himself, but unfortunately he was camera shy so I couldn’t get the shot with him in. I still love the image though, lots of detail surrounding the amazing chair! I entered the shot into the London photographic awards, and was awarded Winner of the Environmental colour category for the image.
Winner of the still life series category in the London photographic awards.
I kept spotting some really interesting tiny mushrooms on walks I’d taken. I decided to try and photograph them with my large format 5X4 Sinar camera, using 5X4 sheet film. Not easy trying to get a camera that big on the ground, and level with a tiny mushroom, but as I would have to extend the camera bellows out quite considerably to fill the frame with the mushroom, I thought it would give a really nice look with a shallow depth field.
I entered the shots into the London Photographic awards and was awarded winner of the still life series category. This picture is the double page spread from the awards book.
