Nothing like a Group B rally car to wake the neighbours, add in some superbikes, some pro bikes racers, an aeroplane and a runway and things become positively rowdy!

When I was (much) younger and for a limited time in the early 80's Group B rally cars were a thing, a truly insane thing and I was lucky enough to be in the Cumbrian Forests to hear these crazy machines tearing up the gravel, literally. Yeah yeah Subarus were good and rightly became iconic but these things were proper angry weapons!

A 6R4, on song is a truly sublime noise, we were kind of restricted with noise at this location so when the venue owner was issuing his final telling off to the location manager (unbeknown to us) we sent the car off to get some B Roll footage - it seems that a 6R4 gets noisier as the land owner gets angrier - what a shoot!

I have known Emily since she was born so I was delighted to be able to help out with her final degree collection, she recruited some mates to model, secured the locations and off we went!

I was fantastic to see Emily's work, the shear amount of work that has gone into this collection, from dying fabric to knitting plastic bags, embroidering building plans, while keeping relevant to the brief, attention to detail and quality of work is simply outstanding - just beautiful!

We had a lot of fun, plenty of Mum Bev's catering and brews annnnnnnnnnddddd.......

Emily got first, a first in every module as well as being awarded overall HE Creative Lancashire Student of the Year -  smashed it Emily, awesome work!

Ian

Resilience.
"A collection based on 2015 Storm Desmond and its effect on my home. The garments represent the stages of destruction and the journey to rebuilding. The garments show the journey of the water, debris, construction and the new house."

Emily White.

Following a disturbing number of deaths over the last few years in the areas Lakes and rivers, a few folk got together to make a series of films to try and help promote water safety.

This one was fun, pretty much first light at Rayrigg Meadow on Windermere to try and demonstrate what a difference a 'Tow Float' makes when in the water. It's a very popular entry point to the water for swimmers and SUP'ers.

Hopefully it helped!

Some of the most special times as a family are spent camping, or glamping, or - just on holiday, working with Alex and his team at Stanley Villa Farm this Summer has been the best fun, families having a really great time, roasting Marshmallows, Fishing on the Lake, eating Wallings ice cream, playing frisbee and generally living their best life!

Our images provided marketing content for the website, images for email marketing and TONS of content for social media channels! 

Fantastic place, great guests, fun, fun, fun!

2020- you sucked but lets look on the bright side, it also offered opportunity!

I spent loads of time with my son and partner, I did work with some great people, in fabulous weather, restrictions were tough but lens angles and a different approach worked out well. 

Everyone was bought in to doing the 'right thing' and working through guidelines if unsure, no questions, no argument.

Lets face it, this video is 6 mins of your life that you won't get back, I am actually quite proud of what we managed to do though the lockdown - most of these images / videos will have helped business trade though, adapting to online sales, others you might have seen with graphics on e-mailouts and websites, Instagram and Facebook pages, national and local press and so on.

I padded it out with more images than I normally would as I didn't think there was much to show......We had fun, always, its the law!

Grab a brew, hit full screen, turn it up!

Occasionally I work for estate agents on some high end properties, great to know that a good job was done and that between the photographs, particulars and marketing families can move to their dream homes, in both directions, from buyers to sellers!

We really, really enjoyed the shoot with Lee and Michaela for See Events for their Wellbeing Workshops, peace and quiet in nature, flat calm, silence and the scent of the trees - just nature.

Bloody great, in that couple of hours, not a care - wonderful!

Images used across marketing channels, including website and email marketing.

You know, although I live in the Lake District, I feel most at home at the beach (or racetrack to be fair), this is a beach, that in my head is secret, its where I go to chat to my Dad who passed many years ago, it is beautiful, with real sand and on a warm day you could be on any beach, anywhere - this is Cumbria though!

I took Dena, she now shares my secret beach and I couldn't be happier!

Kids and water - this was the basic brief for the Kidunk 'Mizzle' campaign shoot, Mizzle is a collaboration between Kidunk and Mountain Method which sees the traditional pattern of the Kidunk product adapted to a fully waterproof, taped seam, product made here in Cumbria in the foothills of the Western Lake District.

Brief: 
Literally give the kids a hosepipe and a stream and see what happens, hilarity, hilarity happens what a great day, wonderful children just having fun, a fabulous shoot, a really good laugh, kids loved it and of course were compensated with hot chocolate and marshmallows!