Sometimes Black and White just works

The plan was to create an ‘Oil Painting’ mood. I think we succeeded. Hope you enjoy them to. WH.

Out-take

Friends

Sisters

Snow white and Rose red - they'll kill me for that!!

Happy

Elegant

Private

Family

The headless lady was popular at certain types of party

Wow, what a fun party that was. Many people who I would not have remembered until we met again – but that’s where the joy of photography comes in…sometimes.

Close...

...much closer

"He thinks I'm Driving" "She thinks that's Vodka"

"Two more of those and I can get her that tattoo"

Luckily she was caught by Elastic girl

I married a Mannequin!

Yeah, it's as big as my thumb

and the best thing is...he doesn't speak English

..nor does his friend.

"...and listen, Connery" I said "your jealous because Seve asked for my autograph first..."

"...of course I can fake it, I am an actress..."

Pretty Cake - somewhere in there

Rule No: 27 - Never miss an opportunity for public speaking

Once a Show Girl...

..."and one more thing"... "I said the Pole dancer wants your number"

No - I keep telling you - there is nobody in there !

It's alright, he's with me...

It suddenly dawned on her that it might not be Michael Jackson

They thought I said "show me your Botox'

Dwarf paparazzi are all the rage these days

Every Freddie look alike has his day

Right party, Wrong part of Town

'...and can I get off my knees now..' he begged

I know her but can't place her right now

"self-strangulation can put a kick back into your life" he said to her eternal fascination

Winner of the Stupid Shorts and Shoes contest 2010

Always make other people run !

Delighted to welcome the boys back after shooting with so many girls. We had a very happy time as we spent half an hour shooting the lads as they larked in the mud, graciously accepting my ideas, including getting wet sitting on the leaves in the woods. It rained throughout but that did not deter our shoot at all.

Looks lovely but they were trying to push each other off the bank behind.

Nice flat light but low levels resulted in shooting at fast ISO to keep the shutter speed up.   I also added to the entertainment by falling flat on my face as we climbed through a broken fence.

Twins as well as brothers

My knees look like they did when I was about eleven but the D3 kept itself together very well!

Simply changing to B&W can help an image

Fooling around brings out new angles

D3 Continuous Focus is brilliant

Simple Annabel Williams rules work

Never leave a pensive face behind

Brothers again

Happy from below the eyeline

Abercrombie

Fitch

Its like the set of Mid-Summer Night's Dream

You need someone to talk about stuff with...

We have field tested the new look but feel free to add your comments

Its been a very long time. Somehow after getting back from our brilliant Cornish Hols, our feet never touched the ground. Shireen joined the business between school runs and has been invaluable in liaising with our lab and framers. Cromarty has grown and still sees the studio as his home. We have had a great first year, with some very interesting adventures and now we will share them with you. 2010 is the year of the new brand. We have worked with all our agencies to bring a whole new Wild Highlander brand to you. Fresh, Young , Orange and Black and with a unique URL. Our web and network teams believe that we are the first people to register a mobile phone number as as url. So if you have our logo you have all our details. I expect that this will catch on. But On with the show and welcome to 2010 and the New Wild Highlander.

OK (As I also admire the audibly haggard R2 late evening twinset), lets start with obscurity. My link is Queens of the Stone Age ‘No One Knows’. Why (apart from the genius of being the band that released the album Music for the Deaf) is that Stone word – Ah ha – very tenuous you say – but not so.

Queens of the Stone Age supported the Rolling Stones in LA and Las Vegas on their 2006 Bigger Bang tour and caused some controversy. Frontman Josh Homme (sic) suggesting that the Rolling Stones only released albums these days to remind people they are alive and not because they had anything creative to offer. Why not bite the hand etc etc.

WHY THIS SONG? As it happens a great song with a classic metronomic riff worthy of many of their peers and even Peers (Sir Mick) that lifts them to the heights that encouraged Dave Grohl to play with them and record their ‘Songs for the Deaf’ album.

FYI – Just announced – the new super – weird – group called Them Crooked Vultures consisting of Homme, Grohl and John Paul Jones of Led Zep fame. UK Tour dates just announced.FYIPlymouth Pavilions (December 10)Portsmouth Guildhall (11)Blackpool Empress Ballroom (13)Birmingham O2 Academy (14)Edinburgh O2 Academy (15)London HMV Hammersmith Apollo (17)

Anyhow – its a starter for ten. Queens of the Stone Age with No One Knows – any takers??

All bar the Photographer at Becky's Falls

We had a great time as a family on holiday – phew!! I never thought I would get away with writing that.

We stayed in this country, mainly in Cornwall and nowhere for longer than two nights. We saw King Arthur’s Birthplace, had lunch in Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant in Padstein, and lunch in Rock, went back in time 50 years in Coverack including an emergency visit to the Vet at midnight in Helston. We ate the best food possible with Rick and Gina at the Bay Hotel, saw the Red Arrows in Falmouth and swam in the bay at the Three Mackerels. We had large 99 cones, petted wild Dartmoor ponies and scrambled up and down the rocks at Becky’s Falls. We had sunshine, sunburn, windburn, squalls, rain and gales. We ate three different varieties of spaghetti pomodoro, had thai, seabass and indonesian – but no curry! We bought too many sweets and ate barely any of them, we bought crocs. We went swimming, walking, climbing, paddling, jumping and scrambling.

We had a great time as a family on holiday.

Ambush Preparation

Ambush Sprung

Very deceptive

Very long way away

Baywatch

Dogwatch

Still drifting

Taking Shireen for a Walk

Just very dangerous. Cute but very dangerous

Also cute but not as dangerous

Rambler - that's largly walking as a far as I can tell

What fun we had

Largely Unnatural

Coverack 50 years ago

We spent a lovely two days with our friends in Coverack at their hotel ‘The Bay’. We were very lucky to be allowed to stay as their rule is no children under 11. Even with the best will in the world we were not getting away with that!

The Bay and the Bay Hotel

Our hosts made the most superb lunch the next day of the freshest and tastiest morsels and then we hit the beach. The Heir is now two and able to swim – with a few limitations…

A little wave

But she kept her sense of humour which showed great stregth of character

happy and soaking

Certainly enough to go for a jog along the beach

Young Triathlete of the Year Coverack 2009

settling down in the end to pathfinding for mummy and daddy

House, Holmes and Hedge

We had a fantastic visit, that was like a time and space warp. We could have been in the south of anywhere and at anytime in the last two hundred years.

Father and daughter

Mother and Daughter (not by Shirley Valentine Davies but by The Wild Highlander!)

You would swear it was water...

Just had a fun afternoon with Ollie making smoke signals in the studio. No right or wrong answers just a singed smell of battle and these images.

and on...

we're chokin' here

Faces in the dark

and in yellow

and in blue...

All good fun – who needs wall art??