I have just posted a new gallery showing the Chinese New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square and Chinatown from last Sunday.

Today, I had been planning to visit the Wildlife & Wetlands Trust in Barnes, London but then it was suggested that we go up to Trafalgar Square and China Town to see the Chinese New Year celebrations. My trip to shoot wildlife especially birds will have to wait until next weekend … hopefully the weather will be ok then.

There are a lot of people in Trafalgar Square watching various acts on the stage and In the streets around China town, there are a number of food stalls outside the shops and restaurants alongside the queues to get into the restaurants. Along Gerrard Street, there were chinese dragons bringing New Year greetings to each shop or restaurant along the street. It was so busy that photographing the dragons was challenging – I know what it may be like for the press photographers.

Yesterday, I was back in the studio for the first time this year and it has been about two months since my last studio shoot. December is always a busy month leading up to Christmas and catching up with friends … plus I used my spare time to catch up with some of my post processing too.

This was the third shoot that I have done with a fabulous model, Carolyna. Having a professional model who is easy and fun to work with always makes a shoot much easier and dramatically increases the quality of the resulting images. I am looking to explore some different lighting combinations including the use of coloured gels to produce different images with both colours and shades.

I have spend a fair amount of today post processing which is going to take me some time as I shot a huge number of frames. When I have completed the selection and retouching, I will post some of them but in the meantime here is one of the images in this blog.

After such a great shoot, I hope to be working with Carolyna again.

I have been looking through my recent studio shoots and added a few more shoots to my Studio and Location gallery. These images represent a some collection of my studio work with additional examples of my studio work can be found on Model Mayhem and 500px.com.

I don’t have any more shoots planned for 2011 and am starting to think about my shoot schedule for 2012 as well as the themes for future shoots. I would like to do more location shoots but this will have to wait until the spring when the weather gets better. If you are interested in modelling for me them please feel free to email me.

I have been struggling to keep up with my post processing over the summer with lots of studio and event shoots every week. I know it is entirely my fault and I have just about managed it with the exception of two particular shoots – Laos & Cambodia and London Pride.

Well I have finally managed to complete my London Pride 2011 gallery which brought make many happy memories of an absolutely fantastic day back in July. It was a beautiful sunny day with the streets of London packed with happy people who enjoyed being photographed.

If you like my work the please feel free to contact me.

We are back from Croatia having had a great time and really good weather especially for the time of year. It was a combination of photography and relaxing rather than some of the full on photo tours that I have been on – many thanks to Helen, my wife, for organising the itinerary.

After flying into Dubrovnik, we had a longish car journey to Trogir, just north of Split where we stayed in a small family run hotel in the heart of the old town. I don’t think that Trogir has changed much for hundreds of year with narrow alleys and old stone buildings.

From Trogir, it was a short ferry to the beautiful island of Hvar and a hotel right on the harbour front. There was a mixture of yachts and small fishing boat in the harbour with cafes overlooking the scene. The town of Hvar is small and easily photographed in a day so there was plenty of time for relaxing and eating some amazingly fresh fish. It was here that we had our only rainy day but even that was fine and the light was good too. Then we travelled back to Split for a day which was enough to see Split old town before heading back to Dubrovnik.

In Dubrovnik, there are few (if any) hotels in the old city and we stayed a short bus ride away in a lovely little bay in one of the other districts of the city. Despite the recent siege and war, Dubrovnik is a beautiful old city with amazing city walls which you can (and we did) walk right around the old city. We also took a boat trip to see the walls from the sea which emphasised how tall they are. A selection of photographs from this trip are in my new Croatia gallery.

After glorious sunshine since Saturday, today the weather has changed and it is very rainy … in fact, it is a gloomy day. This is a photograph from our hotel which overlooks the harbour and if you image this in bright sunshine it is easy to understand why Hvar is called the St. Tropez of the Adriantic. Luckily, it is not too busy at this time of year as I think it would not be as nice with masses of people.

I have still managed to get out between the showers and take some photos without getting too wet. Plus it has been an opportunity to catch up on post processing (something I am not usually good at whilst I am away) which having a beer or two. All in all very pleasant.

I had previously posted some photographs from the British Motorcycle Club meeting at Brands Hatch in July and I have now added some more images from their last meeting of the year which was also at Brands Hatch at the end of September.

It was a beautiful sunny Sunday and perfect day for racing as well as photography. Being the second time that I had photographed motorcycle racing, it was certainly easier than the first time – I think that I managed to get some good pictures. Brands Hatch is a great circuit to photograph as there is good access and sight of the track as well as the option to go into the pits during some meetings like this one.

Last weekend, I tried a new studio out in East London called Murder Miles Studio which is run by Amber and Adrian. They were both extremely helpful from the booking right through to the shoot on the day making sure that I had everything.

The studio is amazing with lots of different shooting options arranged into a number of different chambers which can be booked independently. Each chamber is well decorated and equipped for different themed shoots. First, I used the chamber with office and lounge settings followed by one of the other chambers with bar, diner and boudoir.

The other main chamber (which I didn’t use) is geared towards fetish and alternative shoots and extremely well kitted out with dungeon, prison cell and medical settings.

In conclusion, Amber and Adrain have created a fantastic space to shoot a very wide varieties of styles and all very reasonably priced to hire – great job!

Thanks to Anita De Bauch for her two recent blogs from our photo shoot at the end of July.  The first blog was contained some of the individual shoots of her and then the second blog ,Pas de Deux, includes both Anita and her good friend Madame Bink.  It was amazing working with two of the top fine art nude models and I created lots of really amazing images with them.

I have also started to post a few of my images on 500px to great another online portfolio for my work.