If you read down the page a bit, you’ll see the beginnings of this project, and an explaination of its concept.

This is the final three-piece exhibit, which will be shown at the University next month. I’d appreciate some feedback. And of course, thank you so very much.

Hello again.

Just thought I’d share my most recent endeavour with you;  it’s something that hopefully all you will find interesting (assuming that the majority of you own a pair of jeans).

A select few of these will eventually end up being cropped to circles, and used as part of my new ‘Levi’s’ project.

Taken using a camera-mounted microscope, this is what your favourite pair of Levi’s looks like at between 7 and 10x magnification.

You can go here for the full gallery, and here for an idea of what they’re going to look like. (The example circle was taken using a standard DSLR and Macro lens.)

On Saturday I went to Iceland, taking photographs for my degree – dedication, I know.

Anyway, I got back yesterday and thought you’d like to see some of what my new favourite Country has to offer. I don’t really want to distract you with words, Iceland is what it is; the most astonishingly weird and beautiful place I’ve ever been.

One thing you might notice, though, is how dark – often black – the mountains are. My basic school geology skills suggest that it’s because the island is so volcanic (which you might have known anyway). Either way, when they’re dusted with snow like this, they look like piles of crushed Oreos.

So I hope you’ll enjoy these few, and you can go here for a full gallery.

The Blue Lagoon. I’m forbidden from showing the ones from inside, they made me sign a contract.

The road going north from Reykjavik.

Waterfall and “Salmon stairs” in Thingvellir National Park. Incidentally, this is also where the American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.

Check the gallery for more. Thanks!

Just updating you on the status of my Puma project. We’re nearing completion, with this, shot 1/3 final pieces.

It was taken on film, with the Hasselblad. I’d appreciate any thoughts.

Click the image for a slightly bigger version.

I’m sharing the progress from another project – as those of you left reading (are there any?) have probably come to expect.

Flowers, a favourite of the sex-mad Robert Mapplethorpe, are as important to art and cultured society, as they are to the groundings of our very existence. Their flamboyant petals and hypnotising scent attracts insects. The insects pollenate the flowers, causing the plant to reproduce. The plant acts as food for small creatures, which, in turn, are eaten by larger ones, and so, and so forth.

In Greek mythology, flowers were weapons of the Gods themselves. They were poisoners, seducers, givers of life and takers of it, too.

Nations of the world sport their own ‘National Flowers’ – The English Rose, Spanish Carnation, or the Turkish Tulip to name but a few.

We’re accustomed to flowers at weddings and funerals, and they feature almost continuously throughout the life-y bit in between.

These ‘Mugshots’, are a semi-scientific endeavour, into the workings and magic of flowers. I hope you enjoy these few examples.

Click the images larger versions.

Gerbera – One of the UK’s best-selling flowers. A great all-rounder.

Ginger flower – Flower of Ginger Root. Cunning!

Tulip – National flower of both Turkey and Iran. Probably other middle eastern Countries as well. The name comes from the Persian word for Turban.

O hai!

Look! A shoot with food in it! It’s been a while, hasn’t it?

Too many trips into university, dragging bags of leaves and carrying sabs of concrete, I’d forgotten how good it was to have my bag smell like fresh bread. I hope you like this one.

Those are Duck’s eggs, btw. They’re much more photogenic, don’t you reckon?

There you are, then. Oh, just a “heads up”, I’m off to Iceland in a couple of weeks. Check it out, lol.

It’s the Christmas holidays now, so no studio until January.

Regardless, here’s digital shoot numer 3 – Flowers theme, and yes, they are my shoes, and yes, I do wear them. You can see me wearing them in my new profile photo on the “about” page (albeit in black & white).

Enjoy.

Shoot number two, with a kind of Rainforest-waterfall theme.

Flowers in “Puma red”. Hope you like…

And I must stress how unofficial it is. I don’t want to face any form of legal action. I love you, Puma!

Hi! Bet you thought I’d forgotten how to write stuff down, eh? Not quite, I’ve just been very, very busy. Having said that, the coffee shop I used to work for got sold by its owner - entirely because he couldn’t be fucking bothered to look after it anymore - so we all lost our jobs. £120 redundancy pay, is shit.

Don’t worry, I’m close to getting another job which is exclusively Barista. I’ll let you know.

Anyway, this. This is the first of many shoots to come in my latest project: An unofficial ad campaign for the legendary sportswear brand ‘Puma’. The concept is quite simple, let me explain…

People do, and probably always will, buy ‘Puma’ without so much a second thought. They’re a brand which need never advertise again, if only ever to re-enstate their company morals, their founding ethos. ‘Puma’ has become has become as much a part of our material world, as flora, foliage, wood and water, for example, are fundamental to our natural world.

This project associates the ‘Puma’ brand with nature, in a way which is sympathetic to both it, and the Earth.

Here are two early examples on digital, taken in the studio with a single tungsten light, with the intention of simulating sunlight.

Simulated Sunlight.

It’s early days, but that’s the basic idea. The item will change, as will the natural element - i.e. Wood, Flowers, Water, etc. - What do you think?

Having owned a four-leaved Clover for so long, how could I leave Ireland off of this list?

I had this given to me by a very kind school teacher - who’s name I can’t remember - some 10 or 12 years ago. It was fascinating then; (it was “fresh” so to speak, ie. not hand-laminated), but now that it’s aged and cracked inside of its sticky-tape stasis chamber, it has an entirely different magic.

I hope it amazes you as much as it does myself.