Double Page Spread in Natural World

Hampshire Wildlife trust contacted me and asked if I could provide them with a landscape photo of one of their reserves - Noar Hill - for publication in the Natural World.

Natural World is The Wildlife Trusts' UK membership magazine, it is published three times a year, in March, July and November and is mailed to almost 300,000 households in the UK.

Noar Hill is unsurprisingly a hill...with an undulating landscape created over many centuries by successive excavations for chalk, the unusual topography meant the area was unsuitable for modern farming and the land was left for wildlife. The reserve is now considered to be a nationally important haven for wildlife as it supports such a wide range of downland plants and butterflies. I am running an orchid photograpphy course there later in the year if anyone is interested....

Anyway...I a took a shot of the hill (from the edge of a nearby field) and submitted it to the trust consequently it was used as a double page spread in the current (March 09) issue of the magazine. Here is a small version of the magazine layout, if you want a better look you will have to get hold of the magazine!

Shooting on a Plane

Every now and again I get a really unusual shoot opportunity. This one has to rank amongst the best of them, British Airways wanted some shots of their nice new terminal, their staff in a studio and best of all the inside of one of their planes - a 777 (if you're into that sort of thing it's BA's largest passenger aircraft). So three different shoots with three different locations for one of the largest and most prestigious companies in the world. Not bad going!

Unfortunately I can't share the air-side shots with you as they are confidential - and needless to say, on no account would I waste 5 valuable minutes of the time my Client is paying for by sitting in the pilot's seat of a multimillion pound aircraft and pretending to be Biggles....of course I am probably unlikley to find another client who also has a 777 sitting outside their office....however if Boeing call I'll be ready....

Here is one of the terminal just to give you a taste....