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A Portrait Project #56 – Lizzie Rayner
January 30, 2023 - When you find out there is a Professional Long Course Triathlete in you home town, my mind straight away started putting...
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A Portrait Project #55 – Nicola Hope
January 30, 2023 - I first photographed Nicola all the way back in January 2016, the fourth shoot in this project.
And to be honest I shou...
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A Portrait Project #54 – Theo May
July 18, 2022 - Do people make a place or does a place make its people?…. I first moved to Malmesbury in 2005, I had been working here f...
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A Portrait Project #53 – Andy Pointer
July 13, 2022 - I am still here… but like so many of us, its been a bit tough! So you haven’t heard from me for a while, small fry issue...
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A Portrait Project #52 – Kian Pollard (again!)
December 30, 2021 - If you saw my last post – https://rupertbarker.com/a-portrait-project-51-kian-pollard/ – you would have seen Kian’s magn...
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A Portrait Project #51 – Kian Pollard
August 21, 2021 - ‘A Portrait Project’ is back…. it’s been a while…. too long but I don’t need to go into what we’ve all experienced and s...
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A Portrait Project #50 – Louis Harvey – 2020 British Champion
October 27, 2020 - I actually shot these images in late September…but never posted them, I seem to be suffering a crisis of creative confid...
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A Portrait Project #49 – The Pollards.
May 19, 2019 - I’m really excited to be able to bring you this set of images from my ‘A Portrait Project’, The Pollards, The New Guardi...
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A Portrait Project #48 – Louis.
May 16, 2019 - A Portrait Project #48 – Louis. As soon as I heard about Malmesbury’s own British Championship Karter, Louis Harvey, I’v...
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Malmesbury Amateur Boxing Club – 24.11.18.
December 05, 2018 - I’ve never photographed boxing before……..so when I got a message asking if I could take some images at Malmesbury Amateu...
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The Long Players – Purple Rain
December 02, 2018 - If you happened to be walking past The Kings Arms in Malmesbury on 18th November and wondered what the flashing lights a...
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A Portrait Project #47 – Jodie.
September 05, 2018 - A Portrait Project #47 – Jodie. Refresh, reboot, reinvent……after some navel gazing I’ve decided to remove the “Weekly” p...
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Weekly Portrait #46 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Megan.
May 11, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #46 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Megan.
Megan lives on the same street as me, she featured...
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Weekly Portrait #45 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jo.
May 01, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #45 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jo.
So I might need to change this to the Monthly Portrait...
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Weekly Portrait #44 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah.
March 16, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #44 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah.
I first photographed Sarah in October 2015, after re...
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Weekly Portrait #43 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phillip.
March 08, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #43 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phillip.
One week of a crazy work deadline and a second int...
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Weekly Portrait #42 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Clare.
February 09, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #42 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Clare.
I didn’t shoot a weekly portrait last week I was com...
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Weekly Portrait #41 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ceri.
January 25, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #41 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ceri.
Yesterday I got to spend a fantastic couple of hours...
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Weekly Portrait #40 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Luke or Syd.
January 19, 2018 - Weekly Portrait #40 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Luke or Syd.
It’s back…….
So my Weekly Portrait Project is...
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Wedding Portraits you’d never take on your big day – or ‘Trash the Dress’
October 06, 2017 - I’m not a wedding photographer, but there is something really special about a bride dressed for her Wedding Day. So why...
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Tipsy Waggon – The Mobile Premium Bar
September 19, 2017 - Here is my second complimentary commercial shoot, part of the 6 shoots I’m offering to businesses, large and small, base...
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Buttons – Children’s Clothing
August 20, 2017 - I undertook my first complementary commercial shoots in July (just) but with a super busy family time I haven’t had a ch...
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Fujifilm GFX 50S
June 23, 2017 - So I proviso this blog post with the fact that I’m not a photographer chasing the latest and greatest pieces of equipmen...
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A family photoshoot in the woods – ‘behind the scenes’
June 07, 2017 - As a new feature here on my blog I’m going to start showing a more detailed view of my Private Commission family portrai...
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Paddling-Pool-28.05.17
May 29, 2017 - Second day in the paddling pool, time to activate the sprinkler……..
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Paddling-Pool-27.05.1017
May 27, 2017 - So you can blame me for the change in the weather, I was the one who ordered a new paddling pool in the middle of the he...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – March 2017
March 14, 2017 - It’s been a while since I photographed any dogs for Happily Ever After but on Sunday, Cerian drove up from Bristol with...
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Weekly Portrait #39 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Robin.
December 13, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #39 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Robin.
Corrective Farrier and partner at Willow Equine. Hor...
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Weekly Portrait #38 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Martin.
December 09, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #38 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Martin.
Tree surgeon and purveyor of sound advice. Thanks M...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #8 – Sean.
December 08, 2016 - Eighth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to their FB pag...
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Weekly Portrait #37 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Julian.
November 23, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #37 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Julian.
This weeks Weekly Portrait comes to you with the ai...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #7 – Rebekah.
November 16, 2016 - Seventh instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to their FB pa...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #6 – Chay.
November 14, 2016 - Sixth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to their FB page...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #5 – Tom.
November 08, 2016 - On this tumultuous day, how about an image of a naked vet with a rescue dog to cheer you all up? Fifth instalment of sho...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #4 – Alex.
November 06, 2016 - Fourth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to their FB pag...
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Weekly Portrait #36 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Uncle John.
November 02, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #36 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Uncle John.
This weeks Weekly Portrait Project is a deeply...
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Weekly Portrait #35 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Natalie.
October 19, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #35 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Natalie.
I first met Natalie when I photographed her family...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #2 – Thomas.
October 13, 2016 - Second instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to their FB pag...
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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #1 – Gareth
October 11, 2016 - Some of you will have read or seen posts I’ve liked about the Calendar project I worked on for Happily Ever After Dog Re...
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Weekly Portrait #34 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Niki.
October 11, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #34 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Niki.
Niki and her partner Robin run Willow Equine just out...
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Weekly Portrait #33 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave.
October 06, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #33 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave.
Meet Dave, creative director by day, musician and pro...
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Lesser Spotted Tri-Horned Scarlett.-‘From my old blog’
October 03, 2016 - Originally posted December 17th 2014.
I was looking for something and happened across a post from my old blog that requ...
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Weekly Portrait #32 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Janey.
September 22, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #32 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Janey.
I met and photographed Janey in June, I always felt...
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Meet Anneliese Bushnell: Making a bald statement – ‘From my old blog’
September 20, 2016 - So this blog post was originally written in November 2014 – Anneliese is fighting a different battle with cancer now and...
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Sisters – First Frame
September 06, 2016 - Today is Scarlett’s first day at school and I know your Facebook feeds will have been full of the little darlings in the...
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Weekly Portrait #31 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Bev.
September 01, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #31 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Bev.
Owner of a new and truly fantastic addition to Malmesb...
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Weekly Portrait #30 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave.
August 24, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #30 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave.
Another introduction through Facebook led me to Dave’...
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Weekly Portrait #29 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Andy.
August 14, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #29 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Andy.
Chairman of Malmesbury Marlins swimming club, Andy wi...
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Weekly Portrait #28 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ami.
July 28, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #28 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ami.
Musician, artist, gardener and all round creative soul...
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Weekly Portrait #27 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Alex.
July 12, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #27 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Alex.
Running her ‘Shisha Tent’ at Boondocks Festival last...
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Boondocks 2016
July 10, 2016 - The best thing about Boondocks, Malmesbury’s own home-grown festival, is………………………………………………..
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Weekly Portrait #26 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Kathy.
July 07, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #26 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Kathy.
Kathy – Writer, Interior Designer, Property Develope...
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Weekly Portrait #25 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jodie.
June 22, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #25 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jodie.
So yesterday I was up near Blackpool to photograph J...
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Weekly Portrait #24 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Catherine.
June 17, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #24 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Catherine.
Multi-Instrumentalist Catherine, singer, songwri...
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Weekly Portrait #23 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jane
June 09, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #23 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jane.
Another connection made via mutual friends on Faceboo...
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02.06.16 -Newquay
June 02, 2016 - Day 5 – The girls asked for a day away from the beach today so we agreed but told them we had to walk the dog before we...
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01.06.16 – Perranporth – Weekly Portrait #22 – “People I now know” Kylie.
June 01, 2016 - Day 4 Today is a joint blog post, Weekly Portrait Project and Happy Birthday to Kylie. Auntie Katie and Grandma came dow...
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31.05.16 – Holywell
May 31, 2016 - Day 3 – Sun still shining, but a pretty strong onshore wind kept us out the surf today, ‘belly boarding’ to resume tomor...
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30.05.2016 – Trevaunance Cove – St Agnes
May 30, 2016 - Day 2 lots more ‘belly boarding’, building of giant sandcastles reinforced by Scarlett with boulders (which Thor thought...
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29.05.2016 – Perranporth
May 29, 2016 - Day 1 of a long overdue holiday, Kylie, Tallulah, Scarlett, Thor and I have an addition to our usual clan, Molly our nie...
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Weekly Portrait #21 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phil
May 25, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #21 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phil
So this is the first, second appearance of my Weekly P...
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Weekly Portrait #20 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – El & Tig
May 19, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #20 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – El & Tig
A double portrait for our dear friends El and Tig...
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Weekly Portrait #19 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Neil
May 10, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #19 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Neil
Malmesbury’s live music man and Citizen of the Year 20...
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Weekly Portrait #18 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Tallulah
May 03, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #18 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Tallulah
Ever since we came home from Auntie Natasha’s 40th...
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Weekly Portrait #17 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Miranda
April 26, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #17 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Miranda
So I had already planned to photograph Miranda in t...
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Weekly Portrait #16 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Xenia
April 19, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #16 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Xenia
Xenia – Russian belly-dancing princess, thankfully lo...
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Happy Birthday Tallulah.
April 16, 2016 - Happy Birthday Tallulah!
Six years ago today I became a Daddy for the first time, thank you to Kylie (my wife) for sque...
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Weekly Portrait #15 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Gareth
April 13, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #15 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Gareth
So what do you do when your Weekly Portrait sitter i...
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Weekly Portrait #14 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah
April 04, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #14 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah
Sarah is an artist, a portrait painter of animals dom...
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Happy Anniversary Roy and Xen
April 04, 2016 - Happy Anniversary Roy and Xen Roy featured in last weeks ‘Weekly Portrait’ see it here if you missed it (Weekly Portrait...
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Weekly Portrait #13 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Roy
March 28, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #13 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Roy
Roy – Prog, Rock and Blues musician, photographer and d...
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Weekly Portrait #12 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Michelle
March 21, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #12 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Michelle
Michelle from Perfection Health and Beauty – Count...
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Weekly Portrait #11 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Mark
March 16, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #11 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Mark
Member of the Tsalagi (Cherokee) Nation – Spiritualist...
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Weekly Portrait #10 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Joanna
March 08, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #10 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Joanna
Ceramic Artist – Meet Cleaver Mosaics – and self pro...
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Weekly Portrait #9 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Scarlett
March 01, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #9 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Scarlett
Time to introduce the first member of the family to...
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Nissi is looking for her forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue
February 23, 2016 - Nissi is looking for her forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue
Who can say no to those ears?
Nissi was rescued...
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Weekly Portrait #8 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dan
February 23, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #8 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dan
Painting under the name Paynes Pinstriping: check out hi...
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Indie needs a forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue
February 22, 2016 - Indie needs a forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue
Indie was rescued from Romania after being patched up for a...
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Weekly Portrait #7.5 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – JJ
February 18, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #7.5 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – JJ
Special treat for you – a second Portrait this week. I...
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Weekly Portrait #7 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nav
February 16, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #7 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nav
Taking me on a new journey again, this week I got to mee...
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Weekly Portrait #6 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nicki
February 10, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #6 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nicki
My open brief portrait project/journey moved on again...
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Weekly Portrait #5 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Cerian
February 03, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #5 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Cerian
I told you this brief was open – week five and the workin...
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Weekly Portrait #4 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Nicola
January 27, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #4 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Nicola
For those of you who missed my first three instalments or...
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Weekly Portrait #3 – “People I know” (Working Title)! – Weasel
January 19, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #3 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Weasel
For those of you who missed my first two instalments (whe...
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Weekly Portrait #2 – “People I know” (Working Title)!
January 14, 2016 - Weekly Portrait #2 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Ben
For those of you who missed my first instalment or are new t...
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Weekly Portrait #1 – “People I know” (working title)!
January 09, 2016 - For 2016 I have set myself a little challenge/project – I am going to shoot a self initiated Weekly Portrait. Under its...
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Bat Girl Smoke Jump
January 06, 2016 - Reworked an image from last summer for some new promotional material. What do you think?
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Portrait Head-swap! Using Photoshop to blend two images.
November 26, 2015 - I think this is probably the first technical post I have made about my work and process. I just wanted to put out a piec...
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A call for help – Please help the Dogs of Dubrovnik
November 09, 2015 - Please can I ask you all to sign this petition to help Sandra, she is possibly the most dedicated person I have ever met...
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Stinky Murphy and Series 1 Landrover
November 06, 2015 - Whilst in Cambridge at the weekend we had to wash stinky Murphy,
he seemed to like all the attention and stood happil...
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Alopecia, a portrait to help.
November 02, 2015 - A few weeks back I learned via a Facebook post a previous client and fellow Malmesbury resident – Sarah – suffered from...
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John Holder and Murphy
November 01, 2015 - Fantastic and busy few days! Thursday drive up to Cambridge for the beautiful wedding of Harriet and Ant on Friday (phot...
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I love an engagement shoot.
October 13, 2015 - I love an engagement shoot, especially when its my cousin Sarah and her fiancé Olly. Also helps when you have a incredib...
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Girls and Treehouse
September 30, 2015 - Strange mix of technologies today. Here are Polaroid photographs of T & S on the steps to their treehouse (I know it’s n...
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Character Portrait
September 29, 2015 - An image from Saturdays Portrait shoot at Roundway Hill. A bit of an outtake/intake. Love it when clients are so involve...
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Batgirl and Spidergirl
September 27, 2015 - Today Scarlett and Tallulah decided to spend the afternoon as Batgirl and Spidergirl, much posturing and dramatic leapin...
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Roundway Hill
September 26, 2015 - Its been a long time since I’ve been up Roundway Hill, used to ride mountain bikes and motocross bikes up there ‘in my y...
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Business Portraits
September 25, 2015 - I’m shooting more and more business portraits, they don’t have to be tight and dull, there is always space for good ligh...
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Jelly_Cat
September 17, 2015 - Jelly_Cat!
After a fanfic 10 minute portrait shoot, I waited for the sunshine to shoot Solar Park number 2. Sun came ou...
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Best place to sit!
September 16, 2015 - Scarlett likes to find the best place to sit. Mummy sorting out her work diary, her feet are the perfect place to sit an...
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Tired Topknot and RIP Colin McRae
September 15, 2015 - Spent all day chasing the weather – and cursing it! I know it won’t change when you shout at the clouds but photographin...
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Boondocks Festival Malmesbury 2015 – my take in 16:9
September 09, 2015 - Wow that was a busy Summer Holidays, work diary and family life mixed, matched and left very little time for me to start...
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I'm not a Gear-Head but.........
January 13, 2015 - January is my usual time for looking back over the images from the year before and I have noticed a change this year. I'...
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