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Just finished a BA Hons reading English at Sidney Sussex College. I now spend most of my time clicking in and around Manchester, venue hunting for shoots and looking where to go next with a camera! (Suggest somewhere to me!)
Favourite photographic subjects:
*Travel Photography
*Moving Light
*Urban Decay
*Religion
I shoot with a Fuji S6500fd and a little Samsung NV8 Also playing around with some instant polaroid thing (Fujifilm Instax 200). Will see how that works out... Some of the older photos (in fact most of them) were taken with a wonderful little Fuji F470 (monsooned-to-death in the Himalaya, RIP).
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~NEWS~
Back in the North! First of the northern shoots now online with REWIRE. Manchester / NW bands / Model Portfolio boosters get in touch!
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Sidney Sussex College Weddings - photos up. Do not order panoramic through the site - contact the photographer!
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C.U.O.T.C. Royal Engineers Wing Dinner (2008) photos now up!
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All comments, suggestions and (constructive!) criticisms greatly appreciated. Just click on the 'contact photographer' bit in each album. Prints can be purchased through this website. Booking prices for promos, headshots, societies, weddings, shows, recitals, bands, gigs and everything in-between can be discussed via email though the site and commissions are always happily received (if not already booked). Have a browse through the portfolio and get in touch!
For licensing and publishing contact the photographer with a decent offer.
The Dashwood Cup (mono)
Mono set from the first annual Dashwood Cup between the Rugby 1st XV of Sidney Sussex College and the Sidney Old Boys in honour of Dr. Dashwood; Porcs patron. The Old Boys won. Brutally.
If ordering prints I recommend 'matt' finish. For square prints and panoramics please contact me before ordering.
Far more substantial colour set to follow soon.
Date taken: 8th March 2008
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Life
People
Sport
S.L.A.G.S. - The Sidney Loving and Giving Society
S.L.A.G.S -
The Sidney Loving and Giving Society annual dinner.
Some pictures come with coloured borders as specified. The white line around the photos, and the watermark, do not feature on the printed photo. The prints and frame borders were made as A4 so look good up to that size without any decrease in quality.
Enjoy.
MORE PHOTOS ON THE 'VIEW ALL PHOTOS' SECTION (link on top right)
Date taken: 05/03/08
Categories:
Cambridge Life
People
RAG Charity Auction 2008
Sidney Sussex College RAG Charity auction 2008.
Custard wrestling, pole dancing, personalised sonnets, fresher strip, personal trainers and auctioneering galore! Generated over £1000 for several good causes.
PHOTO SALE PROFITS TO RAG CHARITY
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Life
Cambridge Views
Dance
People
Performance
Sport
Tiger Boxing Club
Cambridge band 'Tiger Boxing Club' during recent rehersal. Coming soon to a FOP near you.
Date added: 1st Feb 2008Date taken: 01/02/08
Categories:
Cambridge Life
Cambridge Views
People
Performance
Portraiture and such
Well, somewhere inbetween that and candids...
NB. These photos are examples of my work in portraiture and are not for sale.
Portraiture taken through various seasons over the past few years in Cambridge and elswhere. With thanks to my girlfriend Amanda and everone else. If anyone wants their photo removed, let me know.
Available for commissions.
Categories:
Cambridge Colleges
Cambridge Life
Cambridge Views
People
Performance
Rewire
Shots from the Manchester venue Retro Bar featuring the boys from 'Rewire'.
Visit the band on:
www.myspace.com/forlostwords
Go have a listen!
Date taken: 16/12/07
Categories:
People
Performance
Agra
A wonder of the world:
The last of my India photography taken on an absolutely amazing day in Agra. The Taj Mahal and the increadible yet under-appreciated Agra Fort.
I have selected my favourites in the 'best photo' sample section. Please look at all the rest for a wider view of these two modern wonders of the world! Further details to follow. Enjoy.
Date taken: September 2007
Categories:
Flowers
Landscapes
People
Travel
Wildlife
Vexations (mono)
19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Sidney Sussex College Music Society presents:
Vexations - Erik Satie
1 piano
10 pianists
20 hours of continuous music
performed by:
Paul Kilbey, Jamal Sutton, Jesper Carlson, Kim Ashton, James Freeman, Tom Athorne, Sarah Latto, Lydia Slobodian, MatthewTait, Will Buchanan, Joe Scott, and Emily Smith.
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Although Erik Satie wrote Vexations in 1893 its premiere had to wait until 1963, when the experimental composer John Cage organised a performance in New York. Quite why the piece had to wait seventy years for its first performance is, one is forced to admit, not really a mystery. Logistically it is a nightmare, commercially it is ridiculous, and musically it is a trail of endurance for performers and audience alike. However, since its premiere, a considerable number of performances have taken place, some of them lasting as long as 28 hours. Work has even been done studying its effect on the brain. Was all this what Satie actually intended, when he flippantly wrote:
"To play this motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, in the deepest silence, by grave immobilities."
at the top of his score? We will never know, and therein lies the vexation.
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These are the mono series taken during (some) of the 20 hour performance. The music was un-nerving and bloody weird, I thought the photos should be too!
SSCMS website:
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/sscms
Date taken: 19:00 24th Nov - 14:30 25th Nov
Categories:
Cambridge Life
People
Performance
Old and New Delhi
The first few photographs taken in our final stop and base-camp in the Indian Capital. Drip feed upload so, as ever, check back soon for more pictures.
Photos currently in album taken on Shatabdi Express from Amritsar to New Delhi station (free bottled water, tea, soup, curries and icecream!), walking through the grubby, buzzing and totally peddle-tuc-tuc-grid-locked-heart of Old Delhi toward (and around) India's largest mosque: the Jama Masjid. Shots of Delhi from a minaret in the mosque, and an Old Delhi marching band! Photos of the metro leading to New Delhi; the government cente and India Gate, Humayun's Tomb south of the city, a few pictures from the central bazaar Pahar Ganj (including a very good jalabi stall - I ate them and survived - woo!) and the first few pics from the Qutb Minar - the victory column celebrating the arrival of Islam in India.
Enjoy and check back soon for more Delhi, Agra Fort and the Taj Mahal!
Date taken: September 2007
Categories:
Landscapes
People
Performance
Travel
Wildlife
Amritsar
The first few photographs taken on the second leg of our journey:
After an emotional goodbye to our students and a long (and somewhat nauseating) taxi trip we reached the nearest railway station (Pathankot, approx. 83km from Dharamsala) to begin our journey proper. From there four hours on a local train brought us to the capital of Punjab, our residence for the next 72hrs: the magical, mystifying Amritsar.
Amritsar stood in such stark contrast when compared to the cold, quiet tranquillity of McLeod. As we descended from McLeod to the valley bellow we could already feel the change in temperature. The sky was clear, no cloud or mist to protect us from the blazing Indian sun. Progressing through the Punjab on the local train line we had our first proper introduction to Indians. Until now we had, after all, been living in little Lhasa. Colours became brighter, more intense and contrasting. The three primary colours of McLeod (Red - robes, Green - trees, Grey - mist) disappeared into the clouds we left behind us. The sun beat down on our new palate; pinks, blues, oranges, yellows - all of them splashed so lavishly everywhere.
We arrived in Amritsar. The air tasted hot. The smell of pine and incense gave way to spices and diesel. Every part of the city was alive, crawling, dashing and throbbing with movement. Compared to the little Tibetans the Punjabi men soured like Titians, sword in hand (or 'on belt' at least), striding through the bustling, dirt-encrusted streets, instilled with the pride of India's greatest warrior caste. We stayed in a hotel overlooking the site which we had travelled all that way to see: the Harmandir Sahib, the Golden Temple; the holiest shrine of the Sikhs. I spent most of my brief time in Amritsar taking laps of this temple. The other two in my party had fallen quiet ill on the journey across and were on a strict medicinal diet of hotel lobby food, cold glass-bottled coca-cola and twenty-twenty cricket. They made sure I was getting my daily dose of the latter, but the temple was of more appeal.
One evening took us to Waggah outside Amritsar, one of the few remaining open borders to Pakistan. Here, an elaborate mock-aggressive display of military pomp, peacock fanned hats and pythonesque foot stamping is enacted in a crowd-pleasing show of Indo-Pakistani unity. The crowd was probably the most colourful mosh-pit come rugby scrum I've ever been in. The display left me utterly buzzing with the energy of the crowd, albeit in slight need of a chiropractor. Other pictures show the free meal offered to 30,000 pilgrims per day in the temple (Daal fried, curried chick-pea, chapati and some sweet cake thing - tasty!), one of the luminescent and terrifying temple guards, the night-time procession of the Sikh holy book, pilgrims, and a few shots from the grubby and fascinating surrounding streets. Enjoy!
Date taken: September 2007
Categories:
Landscapes
People
Travel
