Monachyle Mhor

  A magazine asked me to supply images of the Chef and owner of Monachyle Mhor, a lovely hotel near Calendar. Tom Lewis is a real character, speaks really fast, laughs  a lot and manages to keep 5 conversations going at the same time. I wanted to try and bring that to the photograph but also create a sense of the landscape that he works in. He uses a lot of organic produce, in particular Venison which he shoots himself, guts himself and cooks himself so the landscape that provides him with his ingredients was important.

 

 

Glasgow Caledonian University – Postgraduate Prospectus Cover Shot

  Glasgow Caledonian had to find a cover shot for their Postgrad prospectus, typically they had a pretty good brief and all we had to do was get the shot. The cover design was sketched out in advance so I knew that we needed a small group of students in the foreground with possibly another small group in the background. They wanted bold colours on the left hand side of the frame to push the viewers eye to the right. Knowing the campus well we chatted through the options and then settled on this area. It was a corridor with lots of light on 1 side making for a potentially unbalanced shot so it was necessary to use flash in very specific areas of the shot to bring a sense of balance back.

 

After a half day shoot we had a good bunch of potential shots in the bag but this was how the cover ended up

Angus College

  Angus College needed some stock photography of their construction courses, there was no specific brief – just supply generic images for use in prospectuses and adverts. I spent a day working with the lecturers and students who were all great to work with.

 

Jewel and Esk College

One of my education clients is Jewel and Esk College, as part of their green initiative they encourage cycling to work. This image was used as a press photograph as well as in their prospectus, it was taken on a very cold day with a pretty bad sky. Not ideal!