Category Archives: Corporate Documentary Photography

I Can’t Compete With Children

Fota Island Resort is one of those clients you have to cherish when they come along*. They are capable of some really original ideas**. When did you see a hotel do anything like this? Much though I’d like to say … Continue reading

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Housekeeping

Non-photographers would be astonished at the amount of hard disk space photography consumes. It’s an insatiable beast. I don’t want to bore you, but I do need to throw some numbers out there. My own office system has at its … Continue reading

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Filed under Back Up, Corporate Documentary Photography, Photographs, Photography, Where I'm coming from

Life Is What You Make It

Life is funny at times. Not funny ha-ha, but funny odd – though of course it is at times funny ha-ha as well. Two weeks ago, my family and I were involved in a car collision. Nobody was hurt. Our … Continue reading

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Java Republic – My Kinda Client

It is nice to get presents in the post, especially when they come as a surprise. Even more so when they have been sent by a client. Last year I produced a series of documentary photographs that were intended for … Continue reading

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Filed under Children, Chocolate, Corporate Documentary Photography, Food Photography, Happy Customers, Videos

Up High

I learned the other day that vertigo isn’t the fear of heights. In fact, you can suffer a bout of it while you’re sitting down. Excessive drinking can bring it on apparently, or the symptoms, at least. So they say. … Continue reading

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Behind The Scenes At Fota Island Resort – Part 2: The Golf Course

One of the key attractions of a stay at Fota Island Resort is its original championship-level golf course designed by Christy O’Connor Jr and Peter McEvoy. The great and the good of golf have played here. Padraig, Monty, you’d recognize … Continue reading

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Behind The Scenes At Fota Island Resort – Part 1: The Staff

Photographing behind the scenes at Fota Island Resort was one of my most fulfilling assignments ever. The reasons are plentiful. So much so that listing them all would shorten your will to live. So I’ll restrict myself to two of … Continue reading

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Ugly

Mostly as a photographer you’re asked to produce beautiful, or at least attractive, photographs. You don’t often hear a client say: “Make me/my child/my wedding/my product look as pig ugly as possible. The pigger the better.” Even documentary photographers aim … Continue reading

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Documentary Photography Isn’t Always About People

Doug Menuez is someone I really admire. I refer often to his article On Chaos, Fear, Survival and Luck, which is a wonderful piece of writing that every professional photographer should read. He has also forged a career as a … Continue reading

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Adrift

A lot is going on at the moment. I sense a sea change coming in my career. More than sense it; I’m driving it, but it just hasn’t crystalized yet in a way that I can articulate, so it’s hard … Continue reading

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