El Dabaa, Egypt

A portrait I took on Egypt's North Coast during a shoot for The Devil's Garden back in July.

Flanders, Belgium

A couple of landscapes taken last week on the WW1 battlefields surrounding Ypres. Top: The Caterpillar Crater near Hill 60 created when 1st Australian Tunneling Company detonated explosives beneath German trenches. Above: a ploughed field hints at how the landscape may have looked during the war.

Portrait: Thom Sweeney

A portrait I shot for B.B, ESQ of tailors Thom Whiddett and Luke Sweeney in Thom Sweeney's Mayfair premises last year.

Landscape: California

Taken last November facing the Sierra Nevada from Mono Lake. Click image to enlarge.

Portrait: Marc Vallée

A portrait of photographer Marc Vallée from a shoot held at the end of last year. The location was Leake Street, near Waterloo station, where Marc shot his Writers series.

Mexico

Here's a selection of pictures from my recent travels in Mexico. Most relate to either the Day of Saint Jude or the Day of the Dead. All taken on a 5D Mark II and a 40mm.

Coming soon: Mexico, USA & Canada

As soon as I get a moment I'll post some images from my recent trip to Central and North America. Until then, here's one of the first pictures I took in Mexico City...

Portrait: Mark Makela

An image I took of photojournalist Mark Makela in Hampstead earlier today with Canon's new 40mm 'pancake' lens. Mark's been over from the U.S. covering the Olympics and his photostory, The Unseen Olympics, can be seen at www.markmakela.com

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Still life

Noticed this in the kitchen yesterday.

Corporate headshots

One of the 40 headshots I took yesterday plus the set up: 2x Canon 580EX IIs and 2x medium Lastolite EzyBox softboxes. Shot on the 5D Mark II and 85mm f/1.2 L II.

Portrait: Adrian

A portrait I made last week in relation to my Falkland-Malvinas work of photographer and former Royal Marine, Adrian Brown.

Portrait: Eben Upton

Founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi foundation, Eben Upton, from a shoot in Cambridge last week.

Robert Lawrence MC

This portrait of Robert Lawrence is the first image I've made towards a body of work that will focus on British and Argentinian veterans of the Falkland-Malvinas conflict.

For an action fought on Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence - then a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards - was awarded the Military Cross. He was seriously wounded in the final hours of the conflict and his story dramatised in the 1988 film Tumbledown.

Lawrence is now the manager and co-founder of Global Adventure Plus, an organisation that aims to help physically and mentally injured ex-service personnel.

Portrait: Iain MacDonald

A portrait of film and television director Iain MacDonald from a shoot earlier today.

Portrait: Brian David Stevens

A portrait of Brian David Stevens taken on London's South Bank yesterday.

The Strand, London

Late afternoon on London's Strand.

Outtake

An outtake from a corporate job I shot earlier this week lit with my Canon 580EX II's and the Lastolite Ezybox.

Hard drive find

Greg and Danfung - London, October 2009.

Lumiquest Softbox III + Gary Fong Lightsphere

I've recently been testing various lightweight lighting solutions. This was predominantly a reportage shoot that required a few formal headshots so I just used my Canon 580EX II flashes triggered by a Canon ST-E2. The pull down projection screen was a handy bonus.