Raising a Barn and Finding Serenity

Raising a Barn and Finding Serenity

  As a cold and slow January ends, I feel it is time for some change...   After working in web design & the digital space for over 28 years, I...

Simply, Joni Mitchell

Simply, Joni Mitchell

The Name-Drop Diaries #02 In December 1990, The List magazine called me and asked me to go to The City Arts Centre in Edinburgh to photograph the...

Kathleen Jamie’s Site Goes Live

Kathleen Jamie’s Site Goes Live

'Just went live with a new website for Scottish poet and non-fiction writer Kathleen Jamie. Working with her own handwriting to create slideshows...

Highland Threads Goes Live

Highland Threads Goes Live

I have had the pleasure of working with the team at Museums and Heritage Highland on a new website to promote museums in the highlands of Scotland....

Brigid Collins Artist Site Goes Live

Brigid Collins Artist Site Goes Live

I've spent a few months working with the artist Brigid Collins on her new site. This has been a very welcome activity in these strange pandemic...

Bonne Année et Bonne Santé 2020

Bonne Année et Bonne Santé 2020

Wishing you all a prosperous and safe new year. We've had a great year here in Nérac. Studio Faire creative retreat goes from strength to strength....

Building Chateaux In The Air

Building Chateaux In The Air

'Building castles in the air' : It's hardly been a daydream this past year or so. I've been incredibly busy (and lucky) shooting some pretty damn...

Bonne Année et Bonne Santé 2019

Bonne Année et Bonne Santé 2019

Welcome to the New Year here in Nérac, South West FranceWe're having just a slight breather before we embark on a very busy year ahead.   ...

2018 : Summer Update

2018 : Summer Update

What a summer it's been, already! There's few more months of sun and laughter to come. Studio Faire has flourished massively in this, our first year...

Flying cameras in Nérac

Flying cameras in Nérac

I recently acquired a camera drone. Not just any camera drone, I have the DJI SPARK! Having longed to purchase a product from DJI over...

Showing (off) in Agen

Showing (off) in Agen

Stills, on a wall, in a gallery.... in FRANCE! So happy to announce that I have my first ever exhibition hanging in France. My show: CHUTES! is...

Settling in to life in Nérac

Settling in to life in Nérac

We've been 'townies' for 6 weeks now! I must admit, living in the town is a welcome change to rural life. Back in Scotland, we lived in a small...

New pals in South West France

New pals in South West France

This summer, Elloise Bennett got in touch regarding shooting her chambres d’hôtes in Nérac for publicity purposes.

Now Available En France!

Now Available En France!

We have lived in the Lot-et-Garonne in South West France for over a month now.

WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT HERE!

Taking it to the bridge with Lindsey Lavender

Taking it to the bridge with Lindsey Lavender

Lindsey Lavender is a fantastic painter. Her work ‘examines the urban environment seeking simple, overlooked observations with a fascination for the mundane but necessary’.

Rachel McCrum, the poet. A study.

Rachel McCrum, the poet. A study.

I spent a great few hours in my wee studio in Barrel Cottage photographing Rachel McCrum, the poet.

Rachel won our Studio Faire competition for a FREE photo shoot. We’re pretty glad she won.

A return to form…

A return to form…

I recently had the privilege of spending a few hours shooting students at Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) at Edinburgh College.

My first fashion shoot in 20 years!

My first fashion shoot in 20 years!

In July 2015, I decided to get back into my original passion… photography, I started experimenting with flash kits, locations, portraiture and corporate mug shots.

Braw Beard Oils Promo

Braw Beard Oils Promo

I shot a promo with Braw Beard Oils in Glasgow’s Griphouse Gym. Griphouse is the home of WolverDean Reilly and is Scotland’s premiere mixed martial...

Promo Video for The Proclaimers

Promo Video for The Proclaimers

Very happy to have been commissioned to shoot the latest promo video for The Proclaimers new track ‘You Built Me Up’ from their 10th studio album...

Blueflint : This is a Story

Blueflint : This is a Story

A rather splendid Sunday morning in March was spent with Edinburgh's Blueflint in a wee bar off Leith Walk called The Strathmore on Iona Street. The...

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