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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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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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City Light; Those Magic Hours When You Can Take Your Studio to the Streets
I would like to take the idea of ‘Magic Hour‘ and turn it into Magic Hours. Maybe ironically, what I am suggesting might fly in the face of something sacred to many; that moment when the natural light is just perfect (and alas fleeting) for beautifully lit portraits. My magic hours are when the natural light, by chance…
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Linear Curves; How Making Your Images Look Really Dull Might Be the Way to Go
This is the title for my article about linear curves and HDR in Capture One Pro 8/9 on the website PhotosApps.Expert. Read the full article here.
Homage to Catalonia? (A Touch of Gaudí in Texas)
A little side job I had whilst in Texas (for a wedding shoot) was to photograph the house that Zack built (He was the groom and designed it as well). I stayed there for about a week and in a few sessions took photos for a book they wanted to make. It was an enjoyable…
Apartments & Interiors
I love doing architecture and interiors because it is a completely different process to photographing people; each can perhaps act like therapy for the other if you are feeling a little burnt out or jaded. These pictures were for a friend who wanted to rent his apartment on an exclusive site, I was flying out…
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Sagrada Familia, Never-Ending Story
This was for an article in the Metropolitan magazine. I knew nothing about the story or the person nor had I ever met the writer. The pictures were taken in the summer but the article did not appear till October. I am not a big fan of the Sagrada Familia, to tell the truth, I…
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Argentina, Chacarita Cemetery, Cap Fed
I returned to Buenos Aires this April after being away 4 years. I was lucky with the weather and on the few occasions I took out my DSLR it always seemed to be perfect, most of the shots here have not had a great deal done to them, the most drastic effect being a tonal…
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An Afternoon on Montjuïc
It was a Monday but a national holiday, normally I don’t really take much notice of these, but it was such a lovely day and besides, some idiots thought this would be the perfect time to dig up the road yet again below where I live so I headed for the hills to get some…
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An Evening in Gatwick
I was flying to Tobago for a wedding (I was best man). The way things transpired I ended up having to stay overnight, having flown in from Barcelona. The groom (Andy) suggested trying the Yotel situated in the South Terminal, it is one of those Japanese style ‘pod’ hotels that you can rent by the…
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Arquitecture: Ogilvy, NYC
I was lucky, through my friendship with Yeesan, to get access to the Ogilvy building in Hell’s Kitchen, an old chocolate factory near the river. Yeesan worked on the refurbishment, she works for Gensler. Her contact there (Cynthia) was great and very helpful, though, I suspect she thought I might be slightly mad when I suggested doing…
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Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Day 3 in New York, yesterday was Saturday and the weather was great, sunny and whilst hardly mild, nowhere near as cold as the Friday, the day I arrived. This Sunday was very moody and dark, perfect weather for cemeteries and luckily near to where Yeesan lives is Greenwood which is pretty big and impressive.…
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Architecture Photography: El Prat, Terminal 1
I was flying to New York. You cannot help but feel exited by such a journey, it is true for me that nowadays most flights are pedestrian affairs, not really much to get excited about, but being in this sparkling new airport at dawn flying to NYC is something special. Though I do think someone should…
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Airport Architecture
I love photographing modern architecture and whenever I am in an airport I often find plenty of inspiration, they are invariably modern, spacious and well lit. Of course it is not always that easy these days to take photos, the usual idiotic response from officialdom is that when they see a ‘pro’ type DSLR you…
The Forum, Barcelona, Take 2
This trip to The Forum was with Naomi whom I am was teaching some photographic techniques to, we had done various theory classes and also shooting portraits with flash etc. I knew she had a certain reticence towards the idea of photographing modern architecture and I had persisted in suggesting it was an interesting thing…
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Modern Buildings, Poblenou
These pictures were shot for a story about the modern architecture of Barcelona, the idea of the story was that the traditional inclusion of things like balconies had stopped and the facades of most buildings are now sleek and brutal. The editor asked me to get shots of buildings looking ¨knife like and stabbing at…
Industrial Photography at the Forum with Barcelona Raw
This was the 4th excursion for the group Barcelona Raw, which I set up the beginning of 2009. We decided to return to something more industrial and brutal after our trip to Montjuic where we messed around doing portrait shots. We arrived just as the rain was easing off but it would keep returning sporadically throughout the afternoon.…
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Desalination Plant, Barcelona
As part of a story on environmental issues I had to go to the new desalination plant near Llobregat. I was quite excited about this as I am fascinated by big machinery and modern architecture. It was pretty interesting, I loved all the bright primary colours used for different pieces of machinery, in the shot…
Liceu Opera House
These pictures were taken as part of a series about supposedly haunted places in Barcelona… …Anyway, as always it was an excellent excuse to get access to places not normally that easy to see. I managed to get through the usual bureaucratic labyrinth and met a nice woman who said I could have 20 mins…
