| I am a photographer with some 20 years experience operating in-and-around the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire counties of the UK. What’s more, I’m a father of two young children and I’ve owned rescued dogs for over 16 years – two of life’s necessaries when trading as a photographer of children and pets!I use film exclusively (though between 2006 and 2009 I shot some digital for a while) and love it for my craft – in my opinion there is no substitute for the effects of a carefully chosen, carefully exposed and carefully developed film. I take a small and professional number of quality natural images using some of the finest optical lenses (Carl Zeiss), a V-System Hasselblad camera and carefully selected professional films, mostly from the Fuji range. I can and do have the film scanned digitally too for clients to e-mail to their friends or upload to Facebook. |
High altitude photography |
| In 2009 I became a World Wildlife Fund published photographer with the publication of my ‘Holly Blue‘ butterfly photo in the 2010 and 2011 ‘World Wildlife Fund’ butterfly calendars. I am not a studio photographer. I capture more natural, unstaged “lifestyle” shots out in the great outdoors or in more comfortable indoor locations.I predominantly use professional Fuji film with a Nikon F5 and\or a Hasselblad 501C/M camera with Carl Zeiss lenses – the undisputed finest optics in the world. My favourite films are Fuji Pro 400H, Fujichrome Provia 100F\400X chrome slides and for Black and White work – Fuji Acros 100 and Neopan 400NC. I write an informal online blog wherein some of my favourite landscape locations are documented, along with a variety of write-ups relating to recent shoots, or activities, or the photographic world generally. |
Taking shots at a wedding using my Nikon F5 (taken by Steven Bradshaw (c) 2010 |
A traditional-technique photographer of weddings, children, pets and landscapes