Continuing the series of "nice ladies with their dogs", here is oscar nominated actress, Imelda Staunton with her wiry mongrel, Molly. I shot this for The Times at her home in West Hampstead.
Tuesday Blues
This is an unhappy girl this morning. The wrong kind of breakfast and no idea what to take to nursery school for show-and-tell puts Daisy Mae into a momentary depression.
Husky And Mischievous
Another day and another attractive older lady with a dog. Today's Daily Mail featured this shot of mine to go with a Felicity Kendal interview. She worked with me, her spaniel and a stepladder to create this unforgettable image. Well unforgettable for me anyway and I certainly won't forget what The Mail, right for a change, describe as her "husky and mischievous chuckle".
Janet Is A Punk Rocker
I've just had the honour of pointing my lens at the lovely Janet Ellis. The ex-Blue Peter presenter, asthma sufferer and mother of Sophie Ellis-Bexter posed at her west London home with Lucy, her large shaggy dog, who is not normally allowed on the sofa. I noticed that Janet's cd collection contained The Ramones Anthology, it was probably her husband's, but anyway she rocks! (I wasn't snooping by the way, it's an easilly recognisable double cd with pink writing).
The Mistress Of Distraction
As anyone knows who works from home, it's easy to get distracted and even the smallest things can stop you from knuckling down and doing something constructive work-wise. This is even more the case when you've got young children at home too, Daisy Mae's latest very successful, attention grabbing trick is to dance in my office. Here she tries ballet and something more contemporary in a grass skirt.
Jeremy
I don't know much about him really, apart from, that he has learning disabilities and was enjoying the facilities at the launch of The Dartford Bridge Community Centre this afternoon. He's got a winning smile though.
Cash For Canines
Billy show's off his first gap. It's made a little less dramatic as the new tooth is already quite well established but the tooth fairy did visit and he's £1 better off. He's also learnt a valuable life lesson, that if times get hard you can always sell body parts for cash.
The Queen of Staines
One of my diabetic portraits. Victoria-Jayne Elford with her puppy Brianne. She's a part-time actress, a Miss Heathrow entrant, a resident of Staines and a superstar in the making. She's had type 1 diabetes for 17 years and wears an insulin pump.
Art Bin - Nearly Full
This is one my shots of Michael Landy artist and creator of Art Bin, the huge transparent skip at The South London Gallery where fellow artists are encouraged to dump unwanted artworks. This was shot back in January with a few items that were due to go into the bin which closes down this weekend. I was impressed by the huge scale of this project and always like the idea of getting rid of stuff which Landy took even further with his previous work where he fantastically smashed up everything he owned.
He asked me if I had anything to contribute. I didn't, of course.
Aliens and Wayne Rooney
This is Lord Martin Rees, the Royal Astronomer and president of The Royal Society. A shot I did for this month's Prospect Magazine.
They don't usually commission photography being a serious word-heavy intellectual publication. However, The Sun, who are at the complete opposite end of the publishing spectrum, picked up part of the interview, Lord Rees' idea that aliens are beyond our understanding and could be anywhere. The Sun illustrate this with pictures of Wayne Rooney next to a pigeon with the caption "Is it coo, or Roo? ... Aliens may be in many forms, says Lord"
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2862533/Aliens-are-here-says-Queens-astronomer.html
It's funny how a sensible conversation with a Lord can lead to a link being made between Rooney and a pigeon that appeared on page 3 of The Sun. The full interview and another one of my pics can be seen here:
My Girl
I just got this shot while experimenting with a snoot attachment. It directs the light quite fiercely and can create quite an ugly shadow but luckily my daughter more than compensates with her latest model pose.
An Innocent Smoothie
A book called I Wish I Worked There by Kursty Groves is being launched at Sony Music Entertainment tomorrow night. This is my picture of Richard Reed, he's one of the managing partners of Innocent who feature in the book. His juggling skills weren't up to much but thanks to the wonders of still photography we were able to create the illusion with a bit of fruit tossing. The Innocent office in Shepherds Bush was a fantastic work space, astroturf flooring, picnic tables and as much mashed up bottled fruit as you can drink. Quite a compromise from my workplace then at The Times, the depressing 80s industrial, fortress Wapping.
More info here: http://www.iwishiworkedthere.com or claire.richman@midaspr.co.uk