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...

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…

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??

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!

Father and Daughters bonding experience

Steeper than it looks

Wetter as well

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