Studio Work
“FREEDOM”
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…
SMOKE SIGNALS
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. › Continue reading
THE GODFATHER
It was a great pleasure to be visited by the Mike Crowe on Wednesday. He came to have his photograph taken and then for lunch. I shall not write too much about him now as he will think I am drafting an obituary but suffice it to say we think he is the best. This picture is one that he probably wont like as he seems to prefer colour but I believe that it shows him is a good light.
Mike Crowe
Planet Cake!
I am really excited to share with you some of the images that we crafted for Rachel and her team from Planet Cake! It was an all-round success after some very hard work and a few flashes of genius!
Soft and seductive with pink rose petals
We met at the National Wedding Show at Olympia in February › Continue reading