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…

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??

Soft and seductive with pink rose petals

We met at the National Wedding Show at Olympia in February where they were being mobbed by aficionados and admirers. We agreed that it would be fun to bring some of their new offerings down to the studio and spend a day ‘cake-shooting’ – so we did.

It is really important that you are not guessing the flavours

We set up the studio, building a  massive polystyrene archway under which we could bounce a load of light but still leave ourselves free to shoot long through to different backgrounds. Cake types  were styled in different ways so that a theme begins to emerged.

The sugar orchids are astonishingly lifelike

It was not possible to  shoot all the styles that they cover on their site as many of their cakes are only on the planet for a short time!

Reflections add depth and show the attention to detail

Ross and Oliver worked through the day, from scenario to scenario to create a collection of images that help bring Planet Cake to the boil. Rachel was thrilled, decided that we had created a style that she likes and that we will continue to build up images of her collection over time. We are thrilled too!

http://www.planet-cake.com/

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