It was a happy accident, not a term often used with the word Ferrari, we were in discussion with a client for another job when he asked if we photographed events. Having spent most of the year photographing events for a number of different organisation our positive answer lead to an offer to photograph an event he had organised for some of his customers.                                                                                                                                                             

Each year as a thank you to his customers he organises a special event, and this year he had hired the Ferrari garage and 4 drivers to give his guests a day to remember, driving a couple of different Ferrari’s.

Our job, was to capture the event. This entailed hanging around in a room filled with gleaming Ferraris and photographing the customer smiling and having fun.

Of all the jobs I’ve done this year, this must rate as a photographer’s dream, first off the cars look fantastic, you could spend a day just on one car, and not get board. Secondly I would think it would be impossible to get out of a Ferrari after driving one for the first time without a massive grin on your face, without exception every customer looked like they had just won the pools as they stepped out of the car, all I had to do was a quick pose and snap the shot.

The only smile bigger than the customers was mine as I photographed smiling faces and gleaming cars.

Chaps, I’m kicking around an idea for a Leek Blues Festival sometime in October

This message appeared on my face-book page early last year, I knew very little about Blues music and had only photographed 1/2 a dozen gigs, and was now being asked to help arrange Leeks first Blues Festival, along with a group of artists and music fans.  Now 18 months later I’m sitting here recovering from the 2nd Festival, a monster 5 days over 18 venues with 50 bands, my personal score is 22 bands photographed and over 2000 shots taken 1 16 hour day and 4 18 hour days, and I’m knackered.

I’m also now a big fan of Blues music, in awe of all the performers I’ve seen over the past few days, extremely proud to have been a small part of the group that organized the event and even prouder of my home town for supporting the whole thing in such a big way.

The whole festival has taken months to organise, 100’s of man (and woman) hours making sure that both bands and venues had all the support they needed, raising funds and spending them wisely, producing marketing material from poster, maps and flyers to beer mats, badges and plectrums, and all this work was done for free, normally after a hard day doing their proper jobs.

And now its all over with just the memories, hangovers and pictures to show for it. But what great memories, what great pictures and what great hangovers we have have got. I’m going to put my feet up for a few days and then finish off the last of the pictures from Saturday night and Sunday. Then we can start to do it all again if your up for it.

A very busy week, for a start it’s been sunny for the first time in what seems years so each morning I’ve been rushing off to get some local shots. On top of that I’ve done profile pictures for a local business, a training session for a very nice man called Mr Trafford (photography must be in the genes) and spent 2 days photographing a local food festival and running a stall, with lots of help from Caz.

One of the joys of being a photographer is meeting so many great and interesting people and I’ve met loads over the course of the last 2 days, a big thank you to all the stall holders for putting up with me sticking a camera in their faces while they were hard at work, and also for providing some great food and drink. Now to work on the pictures and get ready for a shoot this afternoon.

Nice use of my photos in last weeks Sentinel, coverage like this can only help to sell a house,  having professional pictures makes this kind of spread more likely.

Well it’s finally here the new improved web site, only a year in the making.

A big thank you to Dave and Ewan at Thrive Creative, any errors on here are down to me, but they sourced a great framework for me to hang my images on and worked hard to make sure it runs smoothly.

This is the first of a number exciting announcements that have been in the pipeline for a few weeks, I’ve waited for the website to be finished as the blog gives me just the place to get my news out. So have a look around and tell me what you think.

The 2013 views from around the Staffordshire Moorlands calendar is now out and can be purchased direct from myself for just £5. I will be at the following markets in the run up to Christmas.