Hi everyone! Hope you are having a lovely June so far? Welcome to my June ’25 news. I start with a trip to marketing company Mosaic Group in York. Kath Knowles, freelance brand designer, commissioned me to produce both lifestyle and headshot photography for the company’s new website.
I was invited to spend the day with Mosaic. We created some quirky fun headshots that really show the personality of the people and the company. We used three different background colours, playing around with lots of different expressions and poses. Although the office dog took it rather seriously, he does look very handsome :-). We then took a walk around a small part of Mosaic’s twenty five acre nature reserve. There, we captured shots that illustrate the beautiful surroundings and their amazing green credentials, before returning to the office to cover lots of office lifestyle and culture shots.
Last summer the British Red Cross asked me to create photography to illustrate their First Aid courses. The BRC’s marketing department organised the models, props, and locations. Most importantly, they ensured supervision by a qualified BRC first aid expert to make sure everything was done and shown correctly. It was quite an educational photoshoot for me. Hopefully, I’ve learned a few tips! This was one day of many. I’ll look forward to showing you more over the following news articles.
Another look at a few images from my photoshoot with Kirklees College. We visited the Health and Social Care Department in Huddersfield to photograph the students with the nursing mannequins. The mannequins are amazingly advanced. Students can learn all sorts of techniques in a safe and controlled environment. These images will be used for the College prospectus. Additionally, to illustrate the online pages.
I was asked by Will Stirling to help produce some lovely photography of the students at the JCB Academy in Uttoxeter. The purpose of the photoshoot was to help illustrate a history book to celebrate 15 years of the JCB Academy, which specialises in engineering and manufacturing. My brief was to capture portraits of students in the environment of the school and also to photograph the students engaged in activities – happy and focused. It’s a really amazing school and I was so impressed with the facilities on offer and the whole ethos of the school.
CroBio are a really interesting innovative company that may well make a massive difference to the world. Their goal is to ‘create an environmentally sustainable solution to alleviate global agricultural drought and help reverse the effects of climate change, through durable carbon drawdown’. I met them at CroBio’s lab in Macclesfield...
Read moreI spent a day with a lovely family to create images for MCS Certified, my brief was to capture natural images of the family, in their home, living their lives and to have subtle references to ‘energy’. The star of the show - is such a chilled little guy who takes everything in his stride. We all worked around him, giving him space and down time whenever he needed it - he really is an amazing little person.
Read moreI spent half a day with Joe and his team at Soteria Fire Protection in Huddersfield to create branding photography for their website and general promotion and marketing. Soteria provides expert fire safety solutions across the north. We started with headshots against a mid grey background, wearing branded t-shirts of all the staff. Then moved onto more editorial style portraits of Joe
Read moreI visited a lovely school in my home town of Huddersfield - Moor End Academy. The pupils were really easy to work with and glad to be involved. I worked with Susan, who organised the schedule and helped me on the day. We were looking to get lots of photography of the students working hard, interacting with each other and enjoying the school environment...
Read moreHarper Green School is part of Leverhulme Academy Trust and we worked together to create positive, happy and natural shots of the pupils engaged in lessons and interacting with each other. Occasionally adding in a posed portrait that will work really well alongside a quote or a case study in the prospectus.
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