On location with Bright Shadows....

I first photographed Bright Shadows at Jagz last year and they recently got in touch to produce some images for their forthcoming CD and general promo use.
The top images are from our session in Reading town centre on a Sunday morning, i had spotted these brightly coloured door a while ago and had made a mental note to use them in the future ( i always have some locations tucked away in my brain for future use)

We had started at 8am on a Sunday morning at the very top of a very empty Oracle car park, after unloading all the gear and setting a light up i managed to take one test image before a security guard came over and asked us not to take any more pictures as we had no permission-fair enough, so thats how we ended up in front of some very colourful doors.....

The monochrome image below was taken a few hundred yards from my house, it is a large grey wall that lead into a tunnel, Helen was wearing white, Raji was wearing black so the mid grey wall was ideal-no point in making this a colour image!

To hear more about Bright Shadows, click here,
Their CD Launch Party is on the 22nd August @ Marilyn's Loft Bar, Monroe's, St Mary's Butts, Reading

Brian Gittins

I recently photographed Brian Gittins at the Firestation in Windsor, he was very funny in a strange type of way and took to wearing an animals head throughout the show which made things a bit tricky to get his face in shot without some deep shadows on it

Made me laugh though....

Graham Steel Showcase

I recently attended a showcase evening run by Graham Steele (www.grahamsteelmusiccompany.com/)
Among the acts were, Matt Merry, Kira, Gun Hill Riffs and The Room, all really great and all very different, below are some images from the night....