Light Blue for Schools

As you go on, you find yourself reflected in your achievements, in others perceptions and even in dark corners. If you put anything at all into your work, it will shine back at you.

Classic Brown for portraits. Spontaneous moments are where we excel.

The questions are: Is it what you thought it would be? Is it enough? Is it what you want? We have had a wee bit of that and decided to clarify the answers and build a plan for the Wild Highlander. Articulate the things we care about and the way we care about them – then it is true for us and will be true for everyone.

One of my favourite images I have taken - to date.

Greater clarity would not have made for a better moment. Genuine feeling is a must in our style.

Wild Highlander is about people. It always has been about people. Through all the diversity of images on our site, 90% of them are of people. It is not that we love people, ( although we probably do), it is that we love what people are – fascinating, evolving buckets full of surprises and stories.

We try to make people look like they are and like they are perceived. If we can do that then – job done!

What you do not see is often more important that what you do. The mind fills in the blanks.

Even our Commercial work, like this chocolate advert, is driven to catch moments

Isn't this how every boy is seen by his mum!

There is consistency in our style but not cloning. We do not shake the face of one client into the frame of the last picture. But we do shoot in a similar style consistently and largely unwittingly. s our only reason for taking photographs at all.We have incorporated some legacy images not shown here before to introduce the brand diversity before we update you on many stories that we simply ran out of time to discuss last year.

This image shortlisted this client into the New York finals of the Ralph Lauren Modelling competition.

It is this creative freedom that sits at the essence of what we do – we have discovered. And it is this freedom that we will continue to place at the centre of our world. In creating our new look we have tried to release that looseness of style. A style that we had straight-jacketed in a fine edwardian script and the monochromatic elegance of our look to date.

Trying to make the brand reflect where we wanted to be rather than who we are.

Sometimes you find you have taken a picture that comes into your "I wish I'd taken that" category - and be thrilled you did. Found, not Posed.

Every Dog has his Day !

Taken in natural light on a cold winter dusk with a door light slightly shining from the left. Tribute to Nikon and the D3 Sensor.

Looks beautiful in a natural oak frame

Just light from a stairwell window. Nothing special but the day itself!

That closet is now trashed and we stand basking in natural light. The branding you see in the previous blog post and you will now see tranforming all of our communications and activities is designed to reflect that loose creative freedom that is our only reason for taking photographs at all.

Lisa Kwei (pronounced KWAY). First album is due out in June. Beautiful Singer who has served her apprenticeship.

I am proud if this image. It tells the esact story I was looking to achieve.

Don't know how this got so right but studio madness takes over sometimes

The Godfather. Looking hale and chipper but muttering ...'get on with it'

Ulorin Vex shot courtesy of Yerbury. An Honour.

We have incorporated some legacy images not shown here before to introduce the brand diversity before we update you on many stories that we simply ran out of time to discuss last year.

Athena eat your heart out

when a model is not a model ...

A very unadventurous look at skintone with an eye cocked to Mapplethorpe

Writer, Actor and Director Graham Pountney

No-one, and I mean No-one, has ever looked better with no front teeth.

In Memoriam

A celebration of life

Ulorin Vex and a wild blue scarf

Cool and beautiful with great smoky eyes. Reading Vogue all your life pays off.

Catch you soon…

Keep Alert for the unknown

It has been a busy few weeks for Cromarty. he has learned to commute, to wait, to walk on a lead, to guard a house, to greet strangers and ward off unwelcome ones, he has learned to paddle, almost to swim, the taste of seaweed and the pleasure of hurling it across the beach. he has found out that he is not a Great Dane but has a bigger heart and brain. He has met with vets, hotelliers, gardeners, babies, traffic and dogs. He has paraded down Padstow high street (it took an hour including all the adoration), and scampered across the cliff tops at Tintagel. He has enjoyed dog food, dog vomit, bird shit and rabbit droppings. He has met with wild horses and dined at the White Hart. All in all a satisfactory holiday for a 13 week old dog.

Ahh! The taste of sand.

Where does the water comes from and where does it go?

Ma Beach

Shall I? Shan't I?

I Shall

You never mentioned the tide

Tide's out - I'm out!

INTERESTING

CURIOUS

BITE vs CHEW

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!)

Never trust a man with a lens

Still a bit of fine flesh and a bit of hard tack soon settles a chap down.

Nothing tastes finer than dried birdshit

One more week of captivity and then my fitness regime – aka walking the dog – begins.

Rats and Rabbits...maybe a bird or two

I am rather looking forward to getting out there with him. Not walked with a purpose for a while.

Foxes...down with foxes

He should be ready just in time for our hols. Not at all sure where they are as yet but they will be windswept I am sure.

Stud

Will be back in a couple of weeks…

Sunshine and posing - what the summer was made for

I appreciate the kindness of the Academy for Contemporary Music for letting me shoot the band. Any future work with them will by subject to their copyright and not available here.

An acoustic opener set the scene

It is always important to have a cool bass player

Allegedly a band lineup - less backing vocals and drums!

...backing vocals and drums

The start of a great floorshow

energy, momentum and great music

can't stop the girl

or the boy

even in their quietest moments they were superb

This is a great band that is only just at the beginning of their cycle. Like a fine wine with good bottom and great potential – ready for drinking now but as for laying down for leter – that is not up to me!