Welcome to my online portfolio. I hope you enjoy looking at the photos.
- LATEST NEWS! -
2012 - Richard Noble, Andy Green, 1000mph! - I'm taking a sabbatical from the animation work for a while so that I can joint the Bloodhound SSC Land Speed Record team as their film-maker, photographer and artist. It's a big challenge but these sorts of opportunities don't come along often - perhaps once in a lifetime. If you'd like to follow my adventure please visit BloodhoundSSC.com and the Flickr gallery.
2011 - Auto Art Advent - a sketch a day leading up to Christmas
2011 - Etsy Store now open - new, easy way to buy my prints and sketches
2011 - Keep up to date with twitter and facebook
Most of the time I’m a freelance director for Aardman Animation in
Bristol. But a few times a year I photograph motorsports events for
websites, magazines and increasingly the event organisers. I’ve always
had a deep passion for cars, motorsport and car design – it’s in my
blood – one of my Grandfathers worked as a racing car mechanic and the
other photographed the Auto Unions at Avus in 1934.
I often look for events with a rich history such as Goodwood or
the Le Mans Classic. With my photos I hope to recapture some of the
flavour of the glorious past. Other times I’ll choose events which will
offer interesting photo opportunities – endurance races which will
offer night-shooting and possibly dramatic weather. The glamour, speed,
noise, smell, the dedicated teams and breathtaking engineering – all of
these things I find hugely exciting and are what I try to capture with
my photographs. I’m not interested in making sure I have a picture of
every car in a race – it’s all about the atmosphere.
I shoot with Canon 5D and 20D cameras using mostly prime lenses. I
also love experimenting with other ways of capturing images – whether
it’s with plastic cameras like the Holga or Gakken stereo pinhole
camera, or with my self-built tilt-shift lens and focal plane shutter.
I’ll use anything that helps capture the mood and makes my photos
different from those of all the other photographers covering an event.
In the past year I have occasionally been putting the camera aside in
favour of pencils, pens and brushes. It's an interesting new challenge
but I'm pretty pleased with the results so far. A few drawings and
paintings can be found in the 'motoring art' gallery. If you have any
questions, comments or would like to hire me - and of course I don't
only photograph and draw cars - I'd be delighted to hear from you.
