V Festival

Glorious sunshine and heavy schedule shooting big, commercial artists was the order of the weekend at V.
Artists such Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Pixie Lott and Dizzee Rascal have been getting big amounts of media attention with their antics on and off the stage, so in terms of potential photo sales this was a cracker. Add bands as huge as The Killers into the mix and it leaves little time to do much other than run around from one stage to the hour shooting, editing and knocking back the odd beer. There wasn't even time watch England winning the Ashes unfortunately, but hey, if I'm not going to be seeing that, a festival is about as good a place to be.
The downsides to the weekend were Oasis pulling out, missing out on shooting Amy Winehouse playing with The Specials (although only one photographer was present for this as she only appeared for the encore when we were all shooting someone else) and Lady Gaga ridiculous 90seconds of photographing per song rule.
Overall, for a festival I wouldn't pay to go - the commercial feel to the festival means it pales in comparison to gatherings like Glastonbury and Bestival - it was well organised and good fun.













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New Logo

Here's a potential new logo I may use for my new website, which is under construction. Still playing around with things, but the whole outlook of the site will be hosted by Photoshelter and is looking a lot more professional.



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Europe Road Trip

August is a relatively dead month for jobs with so many people on holiday, few events are planned.
With this is mind, I decided to take 8 days off and go driving around Europe with my friend, Norwegian journalist, Hans Torgersen. The images below are some of my snaps are we travelled through Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and France.










One of the highlights of the journey was a stop off in France at the restaurant of one of France's most celebrated chiefs, Alain Chapel. These couple of pics show us enjoying a glass of champagne in the garden on a hot summer's night. A nice thought ahead of getting back to finding some work in London this August.



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