BBC Countryfile Presenter Adam Henson opens Bishops Cleeve Anaerobic Digester

As a PR Photographer in Gloucestershire I get to meet lots of people and quite a few TV personalities. But it's always a special pleasure to work with BBC Countryfile's Adam Henson, I've worked with him on jobs for one of my regular clients Countrywide .

Yesterday he was opening a new anaerobic digester near Cheltenham for local company  Andigestion Ltd, I also got to meet Norman Grundon who is the chap who owns all the Grundon lorries that we see up and down the country.

BBC Countryfile presenter and local farmer Adam Henson sharing a joke with Norman Grundon.

Photographing the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel array

The clients looking happy despite their soaking moments earlier.

Last week I went to Castle Donnington near East Midland's Airport to photograph the UK's biggest roof-mounted solar panel array on the roof of Marks and Spencer distribution centre.

Here I am looking a bit wet and wind swept.

More than 24,000 panels spread across the building's roof - which is the same size as 11 football pitches. Anyway it sounded like a straight forward job. So I set off with reflectors and light weight studio lights, my plan was to get the sun on the clients back and fill in with studio flash to get either a dramatic stormy sky or travel brochure blue one. A nice man from M&S led the way up an internal ladder toward the roof, when he opened the hatch water cascaded onto us, I felt like I was getting out of a submarine. It was absolutely chucking it down, windy and cold.

You can't be a professional photographer in the UK for 25 years without learning how to deal with our climate. So we went for a cuppa, and as soon as it eased we did a 5 minute shoot and dashed back in for cover. The point of my tale is that when things don't go to plan it's good to have an experienced safe pair of hands to save the day. With a little bit of photoshop I got the sky looking respectable and every one was happy.

Sods Law, it was gorgeous as soon as I had said my goodbyes.

Renegade Media Founder for PR Week

It was great to get a call last week from my old mate Mark Terry-Lush who is the founder of Renegade Media. He needed some corporate portraits of himself for a feature that PR Week was doing on him, Mark's no oil painting so he was very pleased with these pictures ;-)

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.

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.

Corporate Brochure

I had some fun working with the folk at The Warranty Group recently. Formerly known as Aon Warranty Group, it is the world's largest single-source provider of extended warranty solutions. They were a great bunch to work with and they were extremely happy with the corporate brochure, happy days.

Gloucester Apprentices

Apprenticeships are booming. More than 60,000 people have applied for construction apprenticeships over the past 12 months, an increase of more than 10,000 on last year. So I was asked to photograph some of the apprentices at Gloucester College.

Business booming for Gloucestershire man who sent out 600 CVs

John Powell and his wife Hannah from Huntley, Gloucestershire who set up their own valeting business with help from mentor Grant Cozens from Gloucestershire Enterprise .

AFTER sending out 600 CVs to potential employers without success, jobless John Powell refused to give up.
He decided to sell the family car and held numerous car boot sales to raise the money he needed to launch his own business.

And now John's successful mobile car valeting service Mirror Finish has become a shining example how determination can pay off.

David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science, visits Gloucestershire Uni

David Willetts, right,  the minister for universities and science and Stephen Marston, Vice Chancellor of Gloucestershire University, Cheltenham in their Radio Studio.

                 David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science

The pothole killer.

 Gloucestershire Highways booked me to photograph their new weapon against potholes. They are on the way to filling in an additional 22,000 potholes by the end of this year, thanks to six extra ‘find and fix’ gangs and the use of a ‘JetPatcher’. The JetPatcher machine blasts out hot road material at high speed to deliver a suitable repair in double quick time.

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.

UNESCO Competition Win!

I was thrilled to receive an email from UNESCO last night telling me that three of my PR pictures have won a UNESCO competition and will be displayed at a United Nations event in Shanghai, China.


The theme of the competition was "Work has many faces".

Diário de Notícias

I was ever so chuffed to be asked to do a feature for the Portugese national daily paper the, Diario de Noticias. The story was about young Portugese professionals leaving the country to start life in the UK. This lovely couple Marco and Marta flew here the day after their wedding and got on their feet by working in McDonalds. Three years later they are living in Bristol and are successful freelancers, Marta as a Graphic Designer and Marco as a Web Designer.