Outlaws On Tour - Project

We spent a few weeks this month teaching the Explorers about photography, studio work, lighting, editing and photoshopping! The aim the guys had was to show them "On The Road Tour" travelling to different world locations! I knocked together the "Route 66".

Shooting

Reviewing

The result!

Time For Climbing!

Its November, theres Holiday to take - We're heading to Wales! A collection of us headed up for a week in the hills and mountains! This week was the best weather I'd ever had in Snowdonia! I actually saw off the top of Snowdon!!!!! We covered a few peaks, some classic climbs, urbexed an old ammo bump and trekked across the old quarries!

Little Tryfan with a GoPro!

The guys with Snowdon in the background

The view from on top!

The Discovery Of New Fire Games!

With it being November and Fireworks Night this month it sparked, excuse the pun, us off to discover new toys, tricks and party talents with fire. Most of our weekends this month have consisted of breathing fire, spitting fire and stinking of paraffin! However it has allowed for some awesome photos!

Boggy and his Sparks! 

Darwin Breathing!

Mr & Mrs Kendall!

Had a lovely day with the Kendalls shooting their wedding! Amazing colours in the October light! Personal highlight was the Ice Cream Van for pudding and the Kayleigh! Thanks for letting me be part of your day!

Nikon 1 - Press launch Shanghai

After returning from an awesome trip in South Africa I was asked by the MD if I'd be willing to go on a Nikon Press Launch for 5 days. Straight away I agreed to go on the trip, the only detail that was missed was the fact I'd be heading to China!
This turned out to be the launch of the Nikon 1 System cameras which I received a month or two before their release to go out and see the factory where they're made and also test out both the V&J1 cameras. Everything about this trip was awesome and we were treated like royalty! Certainly is something I will never forget!

Side cart Tour round Shanghai

Bamboo Cutting - Watervillage

Hotel Room's View

Buddha Temple

Studio Helping Day!

Dave, a good friend of mine, hired a local studio for a fashion/glamour shoot for his project he's working on. I headed down to lend a hand in any way I could and spent most of my time shifting and moving lights for him. Was kind cool not having to worry about "my photos" coming out badly. Looking forward to the next assistant role!

A lighting test photo I took, one of my only photos!

GoPro Sea Kayaking / Mount testing

Spent the day kayaking with Dad and one of his friends, Marine Dave! Was a short paddle from Lee-On-Solent and this gave me the chance to test how good the GoPro's Suction Mount was! Attaching it to the deck with the camera facing me was the easy part. Being able to trust it was the hard bit. So I attached a bungee leash to it just in case. The safety line wasn't required though as it stuck and held with no problems! I do however want to state that if you apply it when the deck is wet the suction mount will detach! Bring on the Wi-Fi BacPac now!

South Africa

I was lucky enough to be invited to join my sister on an awesome ten day trip across the coast of South Africa. The ten days would consist of jamming as much in as possible allowing us to make the most of our trip. Heading down from Cape Town and finishing in Port Elizabeth we managed to tick off seeing the Penguins at Boulders Beach, Elephants at Addo, Storms River Mouth, Cape Town, Robbin Island, Zip Lines over the Rivers, Table Mountain and my personal high light - Shark Diving!!!

Ultimate Frisbee Nationals - 2011

Once again I headed down to support and shoot Team Devon in the National Ultimate Frisbee Championship Tour. Was lovely to have a little sun shine this year compared to lasts. I have learnt that Frisbee players don't like to drop the disc and have a photo taken as it happens - sorry!

Day trip to the Tank Museum

So it turns out photoshoots can appear out of no where haha. Not sure the staff at the museum knew what was going on with all of us trying on the WW1 outfits from the dress up section!

RACE FOR LIFE

Took the cameras down when supporting some friends and my sister while they ran for Race For Life! The day was really drizzly but this didn't stop anyone raising lots and lots of money!!!

The Last War Pre-Shoot

I've been approached by an independent film producer to take and provide some photos to use for his latest movie! The film is set in the future and I have a list the length of my arm of photos I need to take. This is going to be a challenge. A few samples are below.

Lancer HDR

So Darwin's bought a new car and wanted some photos to show it off to the world. Having taken a trip down to the New Forest we pulled over and I shot away resulting in this.

Plane Grave Yard! - Urbexing

After a disappointing failed urbexing attempt I remembered hearing about an old Plane Scrap / Grave yard. Google maps came into play and after a short trek across a couple of fields I came across what could only be described as a shark fin above the tall bushes. Once turning the corner right in front of us stood a Boeing 747. A quick dash for the steps up to the door saw me get on board and have a quick explore. Turns out the Russian Airline went into administration nine years ago!

Day trip to the Rollercoasters!

Took a trip up to Thorpe Park with the usual gang. Took along the GoPro to see what sort of footage could be shot at 80mph haha. A favourite shot from the day was a screen grab from the log flume!

The Mount Hospital - Bishopstoke - Urbexing

I spent alot of time this month scouting out and exploring around the whole of the old Mount Hospital. There were alot of different buildings to look at ranging from old Victorian buildings to the newer style hospital wards. In total I must of spent around 10 hours exploring this site and have a massive stock of photos. Soon the site will be knocked down and the land used for housing development.

GoPro Customer Training - Coasteering

After selling a GoPro to an outdoor activitiy instructor I was lucky enough to be invited along for a days coasteering to play with, teach and record lots of awesome footage with the GoPro. Both me and Craig, the instructor, wore our action cams!

Devon, Zoos and Caves!

After the awful accommodation in Cornwall the company who owned the site offered us a complimentary week at any other park of our choice. We decided to go for the one at Brixham, Devon. While down there for the week we headed to Paignton Zoo, The Living Coast, got a few climbs in and discovered and explored an old Iron Mine.



GoPro / Helmet Cam Testing Month

So I haven't taken many photos this month - its been more of a fun, play and recording month. Theres been a serious amount of helmet camera testing and experimenting. Lots of mountain boarding and a few others tests too. Enjoy the stills. Videos found on my vimeo page here http://vimeo.com/deflea

One Free Night

So what happens when your best mate buys his first DSLR and you meet up and have nothing planned to do. You guessed it, a photography evening :)
Tonight we headed down to Old Portsmouth to see the lit up water front of Portsmouth!