A new portrait from a recent visit to the Cawdor Road estate in Eccles. I’ll post more examples of recent portrait work in the next few weeks.

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The hulking Elland Road is both reminiscent of my boyhood memories of Maine Road and of stadia in the Eastern Bloc. It was freezing the day I took this and I was hanging grimly onto a rusting chain-link fence. It felt like 1979 with the spectre of Thatcherism. Leeds suffered more than most clubs after their dalliances in the markets, it’s good to see them recovering.

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Stock Photography

I have 244 images on the stock photography site Alamy (you can see them here). Unfortunately, Alamy has 17.58 million images to choose from reducing your chances of being on the first 20 pages for any given search topic to almost nothing.

I’d almost given up hope of making a sale when I casually checked to find the above image was bought for use as a double-page spread in a German tourist brochure netting me $176.28.

Free money (if you disregard the return flight to Rio de Janiero and the ferry transfer to Niterói).

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I was commissioned to take some pictures of Connell Brothers demolition of the Manchester University Refectory on Oxford Road. I like playing with Tonka toys (full size).

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Simon is a hotelier and owner of the Feversham Arms, Helmsley which was recently voted AA Hotel of the Year 2009/2010.
I went up there to take some pictures for Insider magazine and found Simon to be such a game fellow that he was prepared to get nearly naked in North Yorkshire in December and allow [...]

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