Two years ago I was photographing Agnes and Doni’s wedding day, today I had the chance to photograph the newest member of their family, baby Lois. Continue reading →

Baby Isla made my afternoon photo-shoot very easy. Both parents worked really hard giving us loads of smiles to capture. Continue reading →

I got another chance to photograph my niece this afternoon. I don’t think she was to happy about that fact; however it is amazing how content a baby gets when they get to play with mums mobile phone 🙂 (hope it was insured) Continue reading →

Thanks to Rosalind and John for asking me to photography their baby boy John. As you know this is my first tentative steps into the newborn photography arena so a special thanks to baby John for being such a good subject. Continue reading →

I used to always be taking pictures of my own children. They were my always available models and my proving ground; however as I do more and more photography for others I haven’t been taking as many pictures of them as usual. This weekend it felt like summer had arrived, so as a family we went to a local park to let the children run around and enjoy themselves in the unexpected good weather. I just so happened to have some camera gear in my car so the camera came also. At the park I saw a load of other people taking pictures and capturing their children running around and having fun. As a nation we must have a huge archive of our children growing up; however what do we do with them? Are these pictures destined to be lost due to hard disk failure when the laptop fails or lost along with the mobile phone that took them. Everything is digital now, taken in digital and stored in digital and digital is fantastic, up to the point that it fails, and it will. I have just replaced a failed hard disk on my computer where I had stored somewhere in the region of 30,000 images, that would have been a disaster if I had not already planned for such an eventuality.  I use two hard disks in my computer which are a mirror image of each other (Raid 1) this meant that I could simply swap my broken disk out for a new working one with no drama and no losses. On top of that I always hold a backup on an external storage device and another copy off site, so I think my pictures are fairly secure, but I wonder about everyone else’s. So everyone thinks the digital age allows everyone to photograph and capture every moment for generations to come; however will hard disk failure wipe them out. Anyone remembering pre digital will no doubt have a shoe box full of printed pictures and these will are not reliant on being stored as a string of 0’s and 1’s on a magnetic disk, these will stand the test of time. the digital age may be here but there is still a real case for the printed image in order to preserve our images. Continue reading →

I am looking to expand my portfolio of  baby photography.  Obviously for this I have missed the train with my own children as the youngest is now 3, and no I am not planning on having any more, even if it would mean I would have a new model.

So for all new mums or soon to be mums, I am writing to see if you would be interested in having some baby pictures taken. The ideal time is from 4 weeks onwards and as you will see newborns change so quickly, so best to capture these precious images now; because before you know it, you will be running after them, telling them to do their homework and acting like their personal taxi driver, trust me it doesn’t take long.

What I am proposing is an introductory offer where I would spend anywhere between 1 – 2 hours capturing special images of your new baby, taking place in the comfort and familiarity of your own home. Continue reading →

Today I ran my first camera flash workshop. The venue was the Coatbridge Summerlee Photomedia Studios. I was expecting 14 people to turn up for the workshop however I was some what surprised when 24 people turned up.

I designed the workshop to cover the theory behind flash photography, a summary of the equipment required and then a practical session using different flash equipment/accessories and applying the theory learned during the morning session. Based on the attendees comments and their completed feedback forms it seemed to have went down well.

Special thanks to Angela for being my model for the day and Debbie for assisting, also thanks to David Peace (Photographic Dev Officer) based at the Summerlee Photomedia Studios. Continue reading →

Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Venue: Summerlee Photomedia Studio, Coatbridge
Age: 17 years+

Local photographer Alec Kirkham will host a one-day workshop aimed at people wanting to ‘skill-up’ for those special events as well as those important social and family occasions. Alec will take you through from the beginning; covering aperture, speed, ISO and ambient light control, flash unit choices, light modifiers and off-camera flash use. There will be hands on practical exercises balancing flashes with Ambient light, colour balancing, bouncing flash and finally how you can use your environment for effect.

Suitable for beginners with some experience of cameras as well as those with a little more photographic knowledge.

Advanced booking is essential.