Making business portraits fun

One of the nice things about being very experienced in your job is that you're relaxed and not stressed. I've been a photographer for over 25 years now so when I am photographing somebody I am completely at ease and this makes my subject feel at ease too. This is an important part of my skill set that has just crept up on me over the years and now I'm often told that it's a real selling point, especially in the world of corporate photography where my client hasn't got an hour to get to know me. 

Hospital Art.

Last week I was working for Willis Newson, the UK’s leading independent arts consultancy working with health, community and education partners in public spaces. We were photographing many art installations around the Bristol Royal Infirmary, including these amazing Acoustic Baffles that will stop echoes around the central atrium.

Stonehouse Engineers.

It's always a pleasure to work with engineers, I find them very good company and generally generous with tea and biscuits. My morning with CLG Engineering was no exception, CLG have a broad scope and make things from, bits for oil rigs to parts for skateboards.

Palace Visit.

Representatives from local tech companies who are joining Bristol and Bath Science Park Chief Exec Bonnie Dean on a visit to Buckinghham Palace.

L to R

Nigel Restin, Tom Griffin, Nicola Ray, Glen Smith, Bonnie Dean and Steve O'Brien.

Picture by Clint Randall www.pixelprphotography.co.uk

2013 Christmas Drink Driving Campaign

Inspector Kevin Roseblade

I was delighted to be asked by Gloucestershire County Council to help them out with some pictures to promote the launch of their Christmas Drink Driving Campaign. The campaign, Eat, Think, Be Merry, kicks off as an average of three drivers a day continue to be caught under the influence of alcohol while driving in the county

Showcase Awards

It was a pleasure to work with BBC Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry again at Gloucestershire County Council's Grow Gloucestershire Showcase Awards at Cheltenham Race Course. The awards recognise talented young people who have contributed to businesses through work experience, apprenticeships or internships.

BBC Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry

	BBC Reporter, Steve Knibbs co hosted the event and was brilliant, I have worked with Steve many times when I was working on the Western Daily Press and I knew he likes to chat, but I had no idea he had such a talent for public speaking.

One of my clients, Cam Systems, had the great idea to send their Customer Liaison Officer, Alfie Hughes to Chris Mullins Tyres, Gloucester to work there for a day to better understand the work they do. This made a nice set of pictures that were published in the trade press.

Hospital Art

As an Arts Council contractor I get to photograph some nice art, but this little job at the Bath RUH was special. Some of the kids in this art class were pretty poorly and to watch them enjoy an art lesson was touching.

	RUH Bath patient Angel Anto (7) enjoying a creative workshop with artist in residence, Edwina Bridgeman.

	RUH Bath patient Chardonnay Bowen (9) enjoying a creative workshop with artist in residence, Edwina Bridgeman.

Culture, Health & Wellbeing Conference at Bristol's City Hall.

Dancer Helen Musser from the Inner Ground Dance Company at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Conference at Bristol's City Hall.

	Ali Brown from the Knittifi Workshop, a collective of knitting artists at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Conference at Bristol's City Hall.

	Singer and Quartet, 'Bewitched' at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Conference at Bristol's City Hall.		L-R/ Joachim Roewer, Cliodhna Ryan, Kenneth Rice, Deidre Moynihan and Malachy Robinson.

Bringing Creativity to Life class at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Conference at Bristol's Watershed.

	Linda Boyles (left) and Ali Russell playing lunchtime games at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing Conference at Bristol's City Hall.

Phil Vickery MBE

I had the pleasure of photographing Phil Vickery when he visited one of my clients showroom . We spent some time discussing his mashed up ears, apparently when a rugby player has them operated on to look better, they don't work as well. The body adapts to interpret sound with the damaged shape and struggles to adapt if the shape is suddenly changed, so Phil is sticking with his. I wish I did a close up pic now, but he would have thought that was a bit weird.

Phil Vickery MBE  former English rugby union tighthead prop and member of the England squad in the Everhot Cooker Showroom.