Amy Winehouse In Court

The world of Amy Winehouse is nothing short of crazy and her appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on an assault charge proved just that.
Amy photographs are used worldwide so it was no surprise to find 50 plus photographers from different fields and news crews awaiting her arrival from 7am onwards. Showbiz photographers were out in force as well as paps and news photographers making a real cross over of different genres and a lot of snappers we'd not normally come across.
Her arrival was pretty straight forward - we were all behind a barrier allowing her easy access to walk with her father and solicitors into court.
However, mayhem ensued when she came out for a cigarette break as paps broke from the behind the barrier to sorround her and it was during this small time period that I got my best pictures of her. In seconds there was a media frenzy around her, with her security forming a ring around the singer as she stood against a wall and casually puffed away.
Thinking on my feet I climbed some stairs to the side of her to get a better view. The image below shows the scene.



Knowing I need her to look up in my direction to get a decent photo I called to her a few times, she heard me, looked up for a second and I got a couple of great images.




The next day, the picture of her smoking was used in the Metro (below) and I'm hopefully these two images will be used a lot more in the future.




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Mojo Awards & Westlife Book Launch

I had to endure an hour of hundreds of girls and women singing along to Westlife as they queued to meet the boy band at a book launch at Waterstone's. So it was maybe better that Westlife only posed for photographers for around 15 seconds, before going on to sign books for their adoring fans. In that short space of time, it wasn't possible to get them all to look into one of the several photographers cameras at the same time, so the group shots didn't amount to much (bottom photo). Alongside that and a few individual headshots, it was all that could be had.
Much better was the Mojo Awards later that evening. Mojo magazine of course deals with a more discerning, older audience than most music magazines, and it's well respected - tonight it drew in such classic artists as John Lydon, Lemmy, Nick Cave, Jimmy Page, Genesis (all pictured below) as well as younger artists Duffy and Alex Turner and Miles Kane of The Last Shadow Puppets (also below).

The Other Boleyn Girl Premiere

Freezing temperatures marked the Royal premiere of 'The Other Boleyn Girl' in Leicester square, not helped by having to hang around for 40 minutes for Charles and Camilla once the celebs had moved on from their red carpet walkaround to the warmth of the Odeon cinema.
Complaints of the cold sooned dwelled however thanks to the appearance of Scarlett Johansson, who looked great.