Trafalgar Square At Night

I spent last night on the roof of the National Gallery and the Canadian Embassy photographing Trafalgar Square as it hosted an outdoor screening as part of the London Film Festival.
As you can see the view was spectacular.





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B-Boy World Finals

As the official photographer I've been covering many aspects of the build up to the B-Boy world championships in the UK for the past few months, from the regional and national finals right up to the world finals itself, which took place last weekend at a packed-out Brixton Academy.
Watching B-Boy battles (essentially break dancing to hip hop beats) is spectacular and the highlight of the various competitions, with include everything from popping to one-on-one contests, is the crew battles. Featuring the best 8 teams from around the world, it's been described as a James Brown concert meets a boxing clash and the intensity when two crews line up to battle and out do each other is incredible.
The eventual winners were the USA (posed in second photo from top), who narrowly beat Korea in the semi final and defending champions Russia in the final.
Seeing the best break dancers in the world in this environment was one of the best spectator events I've ever come across.
There was even a world record which I was on hand to help photograph for the Guinness Book of Records. Roxy (bottom photo), from UK crew Soul Mavericks, set a new record for the amount of head spins in a minute: 71! It made me dizzy just trying to photograph it.

















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Daily Mirror Front Page!

My photo of Stephen Gately in his last public appearance before his death made the front page of the Daily Mirror today.



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Stephen Gately Dies

I took these pictures of Stephen Gately arriving at the Pride of Britain Awards with Ronan Keating just five days before his death was sadly announced on Saturday night.
Why he died appears to be a bit of a mystery at this time, but here he looks healthy, bright and happy at what was his last public appearance. It really does bring it home home when someone you've seen and photographed so recently suddenly dies.




Here's how the News of the World broke the sad news, using my photo.



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Lil' Wayne Plays Hammersmith Apollo

I'd not knowingly heard the music of Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil' Wayne before this gig, but knew of his fame in the US, so thought it'd be a good one to cover.
Poor lighting aside, it didn't disappoint. Although really not my type of sound Lil' Wayne was hyper on stage and the fact he'd come out 30 minutes late added to the edge he and the charged-up crowd gave the night.
My best shot of the night was this first one below of him jumping. Had the light been less saturated and red I think it could have produced a crisper shot, but given the conditions I was very pleased with the frame.







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