Barcelona Photo Blog
This is where I write about my professional work, and the personal images and words about what I love shooting as an enthusiast.
Jordi Petriz, from Telescope to Microscope
The beach seemed as good as a place as any to start the job. Jordi Petriz was the subject.The theme was where he liked to go when not in the laboratory… I really was hoping to spend time in the laboratory, the potential for over-the-top lighting and all that tech. Hey ho. The client was…
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Beach Sports in Barcelona
I came to a conclusion a while ago that sports photography might be an ideal speciality for me. It has the advantages of fashion, hopefully without some of the problems. That is a subject for another day! Basically, you are photographing people who look good doing interesting things and one would hope wearing colourful or dramatic clothing.…
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Home Studio; Cost Effective Portraits
I would love to have a studio. But I don’t particularly want to spend my life working in one; I still prefer the idea of environmental portraits. But, at times the ease of a studio is very seductive. So, home studio or even pop-up studio, call it what you will. If the results are good…
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Grace Farms; Old fashioned Liberalism Reclining in New Canaan
One day we took a trip out of NYC to visit Grace Farms, located in the very biblical sounding New Canaan. Grand Central Station was impressive and as always manic; the train journey not. A lot of people complain about the service in the US but I like it and starting from Grand Central is…
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Carlo Scarpa, the Most Famous Architect You Never Heard Of?
I had never heard of Carlo Scarpa until I started planning a trip to Italy with my girlfriend, an architect from NYC. She is a big fan of his work. Am I just being lazy? For sure. However, it’s also true that I just don’t have much patience for all verbiage that gets written or…
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A Jewellery Shoot, 3 Stories and a Lot of Drama
These images from a jewellery project have gone up rather late in the day, the truth is the job was intense. I walked into the meeting as a photographer and left as the production manager. I should have been more suspicious. Basically they handed me a budget and then did the equivalent of running to the hills… taking the images…
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Dar Roumana, a Gem Hidden in a Labyrinth
Dar Roumana is within the Medina of Fez. I had been to Morocco one time before, also for work. That was in Casablanca, working for Harvard, you can read about it here. I wouldn’t say I am a fan of Casablanca, my disappointment compounded because I loved the film. The reality is that it’s very…
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Photographing Warehouses and Workers for Bunzl
These jobs came via a UK based agency called AAB Design. The first job was for Bunzl. Their warehouse and offices are near El Prat Airport, I was there to photograph the space and the workers. The second time was maybe 2 years later, near Cabrera de Mar. The company was Cemelin and Bunzl had recently…
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Several different shoots over several days for NTTcom
I have done several sessions with NTTCom covering various different disciplines. Firstly there was the usual corporate headshot type of photography. On another day I was there for an in-house conference, where the top brass from the NTTCom at the Tokyo headquarters flew in to inspire the troops. This lasted half a day and then…
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Pia and Her Family Do Barcelona With No Selfie-Sticks in Sight
It happens occasionally that you get clients who don’t want to spend their day out using selfie-sticks, preferring instead, have someone take the photos for them. It is hard to work out the progression of photography in this regard; in the old days you went on holiday, took photos and sometimes got a stranger to…
