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Football fever pitch

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Football fever pitch

It is a fair guess to say that many of you will know the England football team beat Colombia on Tuesday to secure a place in the next stage of the World Cup. Those of you who don’t live in England will probably not know that chants of “it’s coming home…” can be heard all around me (it being the cup, home being back in England for the first time since 1966). Since this is the state of my adopted country, I couldn’t resist sending you a football photo.

It’s not the World Cup, but I like the drama of this shot. You know that the poor goalie can do nothing to stop what happens next. I shoot all sorts of private events for clients and this was definitely one of the most fun for me to photograph. It was a five-a-side

football tournament organised by BW Workplace Experts to raise money for the music therapy organisation Nordoff Robbins. Eighteen teams participated in three hours of matches, all in the name of charity and good competitive fun.

If you have an event you need photographed, don’t hesitate to get in touch to see how I can help you out.

In other news, I will have two photographs on display at the Artists United exhibit at Fitzroy House, High Street, Lewes. There is always an interesting collection of art at this is annual event that raises money for our local, community-owned football club (more football connections…), so make sure to catch it if you can. The exhibit is up from Thursday to Saturday, 12-14 July.

For the summer solstice, I give you flowers

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For the summer solstice, I give you flowers

I like using the ability of photography to show worlds that are often hidden from view. I do this when documenting building projects that are obscured from the public by hoardings, or when photographing work environments and private events.

In a completely different way, photography can record situations that we can’t physically see with our eyes. For example, recently I was visiting my friend’s allotment when she was watering her roses.

My camera was able to catch a moment of calm and stillness within the chaos of the water spray. I felt like it almost gave me a little peak into the secret lives of flowers.

If you would like me to capture with my camera worlds that are important to you, please get in touch. More of my landscape photographs can be found here.

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Sideways rainbow found in Eastbourne

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Sideways rainbow found in Eastbourne

Following the ‘new’ theme of my previous photo of the week, here is a shot from the new build construction section of my website. As well as photographing the renovation of heritage buildings, I also document all kinds of construction sites. This is the Arndale Centre, a shopping mall going up in Eastbourne. Every month I chart the progress being made for my clients to share with their stakeholders.

I am sure I have said this before in my blog but finding interesting colours on building sites always makes me happy. Getting both colour and reflective puddles at a shoot makes me doubly so. I have found some beautiful, unexpected colours and light at the Arndale Centre during my visits. It is surprising what you can see on a construction site if your eyes are open to it.

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the grain store: my new documentary project

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the grain store: my new documentary project

I always enjoy starting on a new project. I am documenting the change of use of an old grain store to a holiday apartment and studio with disabled access. One of the interesting things about this project is that it is right smack in the midst of the South Downs outside Lewes. The South Downs Way used to go straight past the building and now runs up on the hillside above the site.

I started photographing the building in January, with howling winds and freezing hands.

On my third visit, in March, the surrounding fields were covered in snow. Last week, the skeleton of the building was revealed under a warm afternoon sun. I like this stage of a renovation, when the blue of the sky looks like it is the roof of the building. Do have a look at the earlier photos as well, you can find them here. I was very tempted to use one from the beginning of the project that was dark and atmospheric and wintery, but I thought a warm spring one was probably more appropriate.

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Dappled light of the Stephen Lawrence Trust Centre

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Dappled light of the Stephen Lawrence Trust Centre

The construction work at the Stephen Lawrence Trust Centre is complete, so my part in the project is finished and the blossoming of the Centre into a co-working hub for up-and-coming architects has now begun. It has been a joy to photograph this building and to watch it spring to life. I come away feeling grateful that my skills could have a very practical application in helping a charity that I believe in deeply. What more can one ask for.

For my final shoot, I needed a particular light to capture the sense of welcome of the building. When the sun comes into the foyer in the early evening there is a

transformation of the space. The shadows cast by the Chris Ofili window screen onto the white walls are reminiscent of sun filtering through a forest canopy. This dappled light also helps to define the volume of the space, increasing an awareness of the unusual triangular shape and high ceiling of the room. The new orange corridor that welcomes you through to the back of the building is even more vibrant in this light. The combination of great architecture (David Adjaye), great art (Chris Ofili) and great design (Gensler’s interior design team) have coalesced to create magic. You can see more photographs of this project, and how far it has come in the past year, by using this link.

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Crash bang(er) at the Banger World Qualifier

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Crash bang(er) at the Banger World Qualifier

I love the work I do. Then there are days when I really love the work I do because it exposes me to new experiences that I would never have had otherwise. On Easter Monday I went to photograph a race track in the middle of the countryside for my monthly feature in our local Viva Lewes magazine. The races on show were both contact and non-contact classes and included historic stock cars, Rookie Rods and the Bangers world qualifiers.

The day was as wet and miserable as early April can be, but the weather did nothing to dampen the spectators’ and participants’ enthusiasm. This spectacular crash happened during the second Bangers race. The driver had to escape through the gap where the windscreen would have been (none of the cars have glass windscreens) because his door was rammed by another car. More event photography can be found here.

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