Author archives: Luke Richards

  • A week in the life of the IB

  • Revision: it involves reading, discussing and turning things over in your mind. So how on earth do you bring that to life with photography? At key points of the year, Elite IB provides revision courses – and expert tutors – to steer students through the International Baccalaureate (IB). Re[...]
  • Engage portrait shoot

  • Even the most serious of businesses needs to show its human side. Engage (formerly Chase Solutions) offers ‘field services’. I must confess, I wasn’t quite sure what that entailed when I was asked to carry out portrait photography of the senior management team, plus some premises and lifestyl[...]
  • Argus II Update

  • One of my latest videos has just been screened at the Royal College of Medicine. As you can imagine, I’m rather chuffed about that... Last month, you may remember I wrote a post featuring Keith Hayman of Fleetwood, whose blindness has been alleviated by incredible new Argus II technology. You can[...]
  • Hope Academy Update

  • The portrait and architectural photography I undertook for this Warrington School is now featured heavily in the school’s prospectus. If you’re a longstanding reader of these pages (in which case, thank you) you might remember that last year I spent a couple of days at Warrington’s Hope Academy c[...]
  • The Norwegian Job

  • I’m a commercial photographer in Preston. So naturally my latest commission was in Norway. I’m not complaining. There are some questions that, as a professional photographer, you just say yes to: Want to work for Hewlett Packard? Yes. Want to shoot an Olympic champion? Yes. Want to go to[...]
  • Life Through a (New) Lens

  • I’ve been working with Second Sight Medical to tell the story of a Lancashire man who’s been given a new life thanks to a set of very special glasses. Meet Keith Hayman. He’s 65 and lives in Fleetwood with his wife Sandra, son Alan and grandson Kyle. Keith has been totally blind for 25 years,[...]
  • Seeing the light

  • When DIY photography really won’t cut it... Not every company gets a professional commercial photographer in when they need a few shots taking. When the photograph is going to sit in a corner of your website on a blog post, or is the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a case study, that’s generally fin[...]
  • Commercial photography on a grand scale

  • You could tell the world about your production facility’s capacity. Or you could show it. Knighton Foods probably isn’t a name you know. But I’d put serious money on you having eaten or drunk their products. They’re the people who supply instant dry powder food products to retailers, manu[...]
  • Fighting fit photography

  • I’ve been in London, on a shoot for a project which is helping over-50s get active. If you’ve visited these pages before you’ll probably be familiar with Mytime. They’re the leisure and fitness organisation helping to keep more people active via their network of leisure centres, swimming pool[...]