LATEST UPDATE... March 2013... I got a bit carried away with the airbrush and stencil kit...

I've changed the look of the website. It is also now easier for me to manage so expect to see this page being updated much more often than I have been. Over the last few months I have been asked a few times for logos of my name to go with website links etc. so I decided it was time to design something. I wanted the look of it to have some sort of association with music so I followed the time honoured tradition of stencilled band names on flight cases and equipment and gave my own name a similar treatment.

These, and others in a variety of different sizes, will be available from the new 'logos' page by clicking the 'everything else!' button above!

PREVIOUSLY...

TESSERACT - THE HAUNT (COMPOSITE IMAGE).

17th October 2012... TessearcT's worldwide debut with vocalist Ashe O'Hara at the helm. The band chose to do the show at one of my favourite venues... The Haunt in Brighton. It is a venue with a very high ceiling and a large bank of lights that are capable of creating really atmospheric scenes. For a special band playing such a special gig I really wanted to create an image which fitted the occasion. This meant making the most of those lights!

This one was created from 64 specifically taken individual photographs and it's full size is actually nearly five metres wide. See the individual photos and read more here.

MARCH 2012...

Here's one of two pics of Shawn Milke from Alesana that I've uploaded to these pages. I had the great pleasure of photographing Alesana's awesome headline show on the final night of their recent European tour with We Came As Romans, iwrestledabearonce and Glamour Of The Kill. I also wrote a review of the evening too and both the review and photoset can be seen at Planet Loud dot com.

I chose to feature the shot below because I felt it showed something of Shawn Milke the real world person aswell as Shawn Milke the rock personality from the magazines, videos and recordings. When this moment occurred at the gig it made me realise that touring musicians are only human after all and they do have lives off the stage! It also made me realise the kind of sacrifices in their personal lives that these guys often have to make. When you think it through even further I think this image says quite alot about Shawn Milke the man himself. He certainly gets my respect.

In the image we see Shawn on his knees head thrown back with guitar held aloft and soaking up the adoration of a crowd going wild. He's in full 'rockstar' mode. What interested me was that you can see the back of his guitar and attached onto the back are a couple of very personal items... a baby's ultrasound picture and a pregnant lady next to it. Now, I don't know the circumstances of Shawn Milke's life and relationships... and that's not the point anyway... I just found it really interesting that, whatever the background story, those pictures are understandably a very personal thing in his life. So important to him that he needs to have a connection with the people in them at all times. Even when on stage miles away from home he has the ability to remind himself of these people and be with them at least in spirit whenever he needs to... Seems like a cool bloke to me.

If you'd like to see the other shot of Shawn Milke click here. It's not as 'deep' as the one above, just a close live shot, but still worth a look! :) And don't forget to check out Alesana's latest album 'A Place Where The Sun Is Silent'. It's a musical work of art.

FROM AFAR - Video recording... day one of three. What a blast this was! I was given free license to snap away while the band recorded their first music video. Just one condition - try not to get into shot! Click here for the pics...

A Special Mention... I've just uploaded a picture of Craig and Ross from Twin Atlantic taken on their tour bus whilst being interviewed for Planet Loud. I thought it was worth a special mention as it's not the usual way you would see these guys. Check out Ross' jumper ;) If anyone fancies a peek have a look here.

FROM AFAR - Atheoryforyou EP recording.

There are few greater honours for a music photographer than to be invited by a band into the studio while they make a recording. To be trusted enough for access of that level makes it a real privilege. Even better when that band is From Afar... one of the brightest new bands on the post-hardcore scene. It is therefore with very great pleasure that I present a photoset of From Afar taken while they recorded guitar parts for their soon to be released EP Atheoryforyou. Click here for the photoset.

The "MVP's".

Just when you thought you'd seen the last "best of 2011" chart I decided I'd make one of my own... the 2011 "MVP"s - The "Most Viewed Photographs" on my website during 2011! Not that scientific and guesstimated a bit but essentially correct. I also did a Google image search experiment just to add a bit of credibility to it all :)

The 8th, 9th and 10th MVPs are below. Who got the number one spot? Click here to find out!

No. 8. Jon Kindler - The Chariot
No. 9. Chad Sterenberg - La Dispute
No. 10. Jeremy Bolm - Touche Amore

"Jon Kindler" ranked 16th in the Google image search. The image of "Chad Sterenberg La Dispute" was ranked no. 1.
The image search for "Jeremy Bolm Touche Amore" ranked the photograph at no. 3.

Featured Band: TELLISON

Back in the Summer (2011) I had the opportunity to shoot a live Tellison show at Camden's exellent Dingwalls venue and there was no way I was going to miss it! Click here for the photoset from that show, and also... soon to be added to these pages... "Tellison... Life-sized"... an actual-size image (4metres x 2metres approx) created from photos taken at the same Dingwalls show.

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