Category archives: Client Albums

  • 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[...]
  • Free range photography

  • How do your turn commercial photography into a Christmas dinner? Like this... Between 2009 and 2013, Lancashire County Council ran a successful funding programme for local rural businesses. This year a similar programme – LEADER - will aim to help rural businesses connected with farming, ente[...]
  • Shooting real life

  • Real is good. No staging. No posing. Just your customers/people/products doing what they do in a genuine, authentic way. Real life can lead to some wonderfully powerful commercial photography. But then, it also has a habit of tripping you up. The camping experience at Stanley Villa Farm Campi[...]
  • Hi-vis commercial photography

  • How showing the scale of my latest project required people and the latest in a growing collection of hi-vis jackets. You wouldn’t think it, but commercial photography seems to go in cycles. For some reason, you’re chosen to shoot lots of similar subjects for lots of different people, with see[...]
  • Why do you need a corporate portrait?

  • I’m being asked to cover more and more corporate portrait shoots in Lancashire and across the North-West. That’s good news for me (obviously) but it’s also good news for our local businesses. Because it means that more and more people are getting the message: for a whole host of reasons, your portra[...]
  • Why shoot food on location?

  • You’d think shooting food would be easy. After all, it doesn’t have a mind of its own. It doesn’t wander off between shots, and it doesn’t stand at the back feeling camera shy. In that sense, photographing food is easy – but there’s a big difference between taking a snapshot of the meal you get serv[...]
  • The commercial photography guinea pigs

  • That’s not a figure of speech. There were guinea pigs. And dogs, rabbits, hamsters and fish. Pets at Home has opened the doors to its brand new store in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, and I was there to cover the PR photography. A new store is a big deal for any business. When you have the size and[...]
  • Photographing my photography

  • As a Lancashire commercial photographer, you cover a lot of ground. And because you’re always moving on, there’s rarely an opportunity to revisit your earlier work. Recently, Maxmedia helped me put that right... Maxmedia is a design agency (working out of Ribchester) with a difference. It wor[...]