Award Nominations
Finalist, Young Business of the Year, Association of Scottish Businesswomen Awards 2011.
Finalist, Event Photographer of the Year, Scottish New Music Industry Awards 2011.
Listed in Top 100 Freelancers, The Drum Magazine 2011.
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Rob & Jude’s Wedding Photos – Sneak Peek
On Saturday 2 February, Rob and Jude married in St Adrian’s Church, Gullane, then feasted and partied at Greywalls Hotel. The wedding put a stop to the endless snow and rain, the bride was beautiful, the hotel and marquee were stunning, and we were in awe of the food that came from Chef Roux’s kitchen.
This is just a first peek at a few of the wedding photos. The happy couple, family and friends will see more soon and then I may reveal some more right here.
PS These pictures are also now on Facebook, ripe for tagging.
Posted in photos, wedding
Also tagged 2 february 2013, bouquet, chef roux, croque-en-bouche, dancing, flowers, greywalls, gullane, jude, marquee, marriage, photographs, photography, photos, rob, roses, speeches, st adrian's church, vows, wedding
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Enchanted Forest
I’ve spent the last two nights lurking with my camera in Faskally Wood, Pitlochry, capturing the beauty of The Enchanted Forest. I’ll tell you more when I’ve fully recovered but, for now, here are a few of my photos. AND you may like to know that they all feature in the new Enchanted Forest calendar for 2013 and it’s available to buy online now. Yup, we really are that fast.*
+++UPDATE+++ The calendar is now available to buy in Fisher’s Hotel and Just The Ticket, both in Atholl Road, Pitlochry.
*Now you know why I need to recover 
Posted in event, photos
Also tagged 10 year anniversary, 2013, buy, calendar, christmas present, enchanted forest, event, faskally wood, flow, gift, hut, lighting, loch dunmore, official, order, pitlochry, purchase, reflections, scottish, spectacle, trees
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The Enchanted Forest 2011
I’ve spent hours in the Enchanted Forest in Pitlochry over the last few nights, taking photographs to turn into calendars, greetings cards, postcards and prints. I’d love to tell you more but I’m up to my eyes in multi-coloured trees, moon-like objects, leaves and stairs that glow in the dark. *Update!* You can now buy official Enchanted Forest merchandise right here.
I’ve put loads of my Enchanted Forest pictures on my Facebook page. And there are more to come. I hope you like them.
Posted in event, photography, photos
Also tagged bright, buy, calendar, christmas, christmas card, enchanted, event, explorers garden, forest, gifts, greetings card, lights, merchandise, official, photography, photos, pitlochry, postcard, presents, pretty, print, scottish, spectacle
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T in the Park 2011: Bands
I spent last weekend at T in the Park, shooting promotional pictures for the festival organisers, DF Concerts, and I found a little time to photograph a few bands. Lots more to show’n'tell soon but here are some photos of Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Slash and Ocean Colour Scene.
Posted in event, festival, music, photos
Also tagged 2011, balado, band, chris martin, coldplay, dave grohl, df concerts, event, festival, foo fighters, gig, kinross, live, music, ocean colour scene, photographs, photography, photos, slash, t in the park, titp
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Vote for me!
As if I’d ask for votes. As if! I’m merely informing you that voting has begun for the Scottish New Music Industry Awards and I happen to be one of the contenders for Event Photographer of the Year. I am ridiculously excited about it and will be crossing my fingers and holding my breath until the August deadline.
Anybody can vote but only one vote per IP address is permitted. You’ll find the voting form on the Scottish New Music Industry Awards website right now.
There are 27 categories including Live Club, Sound Engineer, Concert Venue, Media Person, Event, Director, Poster Artist, Radio Show and Record Label. I could go on but you’ll see them for yourself when you go to vote, won’t you? 
Posted in awards, business, photography, promotion
Also tagged 2011, awards, contender, event photographer of the year, julie broadfoot, juliebee, nomination, online, photographer, photography, pictures, scottish new music industry awards, vote, voting, win
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The Meerkat Guide to Royal Weddings
I paid another visit to the meerkats at St Andrews Aquarium yesterday to produce photos for a Royal Wedding press release. Kate & Wills met there so it’s the perfect place to celebrate the occasion!
It was a particularly hard shoot as the meerkats weren’t very interested in the props we supplied; in fact, they were interested in everything but! They kept wandering over to my cameras and even took some time to sniff my arm but we kept playing until they hung around the red, white and blue paraphernalia.
Some of the photos were just begging for captions so we joined forces and the lovely Tricia from Volpa PR has produced this brilliant video. Sit back and enjoy some wedding wisdom from our meerkat friends:
Visit Flickr to see the meerkat photos from my last visit; I’ll put together a gallery of new ones in the next day or two.
Posted in photos, press
Also tagged april 2011, baby, british, celebrate, creatures, cute, julie broadfoot, juliebee, kate, meerkat, middleton, occasion, paraphernalia, photographs, photos, prince, red, royal, royal wedding, st andrews, st andrews aquarium, tourist attraction, toys, volpa, white and blue, william, wills and kate
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Event Photographer of the Year: Nomination
I’m delighted to say I’ve been nominated for Event Photographer of the Year in the Scottish New Music Awards 2011! I received my certificate on the anniversary of the first day of my post-BBC life. That felt quite poignant. Thanks so much to those of you who voted for me, it’s very much appreciated.
Unsurprisingly, I will be shouting about this a few more times before the winner is announced in September (I know, I can’t believe it’s that far away!) but I thought it was about time I shouted about it on my website. Voting begins online on the 2nd May. In the celebrated words of Rebecca Black, “I so excited!”.
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Also tagged 2011, awards, event photographer of the year, nomination, photographer, photography, scottish, scottish new music awards, vote
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So Much To Say…
… and so little time and energy! Sorry for lack of updates, folks, but I’ve been a tad busy. I’ve got plenty of blogs brewing that have yet to make their way onto the screen but I thought I’d just give you a quick summary and point you in the direction of a few new photos.
Today was spent cuddling and photographing dogs. In fact, I met and photo’d more than 30 of ‘em at the Glasgow Vet School Rodeo. Amazing event and great fun, despite a biting wind. I even popped into the reptile tent and was talked into holding a snake. I survived but I think I prefer them through a very long lens. I’ll have all the doggy photos online soon but, for now, you can check out my pictures from last year’s Rodeo here, featuring dogs, a lamb, sheep, a calf, ferrets, birds of prey and duck herding.
Puffins! I’ve put a few of my new puffin photos online. Lots more to come. They are ADORABLE.
Talking of adorable, have you ever seen a baby meerkat? Well, please step this way and prepare to squeal. I photo’d a baby and three adult meerkats at St. Andrews Aquarium last week. Lots to tell about that so please watch this space.
And now for something completely different. Here are my X Factor Live Tour Photos featuring One Direction, Matt Cardle, Rebecca Ferguson, Cher Lloyd, Paije Richardson, Katie Waissel, Aiden Grimshaw and the legendary Wagner.
On top of all of that, I’ve walked on fire (I raised over £400 for OneKind!), done a really successful headshot shoot, taken some pictures of a great Quarriers project, done my first wedding (as second shooter for the fabulous One Big Picture Photography), picked up some great tips at the Photovision Roadshow, and managed an ounce of a social life at Edinburgh’s Twestival. I’ll tell you more about some of them soon.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go and lie down
Posted in charity, event, glasgow, music, pet paparazzi, photos
Also tagged adorable, aiden grimshaw, baby, bearsden, birds, birds of prey, boy band, boyband, busy, calf, charity, cher lloyd, concert, cute, dogs, duck herding, edinburgh, event, ferrets, fire, firewalk, first, glasgow, glasgow vet school, headshots, katie waissel, lacking sleep, lamb, live, matt cardle, meerkat, music, musician, one big picture photography, one direction, paije richardson, pets, photography, photos, photovision roadshow, pop, pop star, project, puffins, quarriers, rebecca ferguson, rodeo, secc, second shooter, sheep, singer, snake, so many tags, st andrews, st andrews aquarium, tour, twestival, twitter, wagner, walked, wedding, winner, x factor
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Twisted Firewalker
I’m going to walk on fire. It’s just a small step away from walking on water although that may be a literal step if it goes wrong on the day. It’s all happening on the 27th March, on the hallowed turf of Hampden Park, a short crawl from home and A&E. I have every eventuality covered.
The firewalk is to raise money for OneKind (formerly Advocates for Animals), a brilliant animal charity. Visit www.onekind.org to find out more about them and have a look at their clever film trailer hoax. It stars Angus MacInnes, who you may recognise from Star Wars. I recognised him as Sonny from River City but that says more about me than him.
OneKind’s video excited thousands of sci-fi fans across the world and went on to win a Movieviral award. Please do watch it.
I photographed OneKind’s first firewalk last year and was hugely impressed by the staff, the organisation, and the preparation for the firewalkers. I didn’t take much persuasion when the team asked me take part this year.
I’ll tell you all about it once I’ve recovered. In the meantime, feel free to donate a little bit of money to help the charity’s great work
Thank you!
Posted in charity, event, glasgow
Also tagged advocates for animals, angus macinnes, animal, charity, film, firewalk, flames, fundraising, glasgow, hampden park, hoax, movieviral, onekind, river city, sci-fi, sonny, sponsor, sponsorship, star wars, they're here, trailer
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People and Parties
Last week was my busiest week yet, a fantastic mix that included a press photocall, the launch of the Music Manifesto (blog soon, I promise), a Christening party, a dance show, a conference, a spectacular 30th birthday party, and some copywriting work. I even found myself turning down work on Sunday because I couldn’t see any time to do it. I’m so excited that so much has come my way but I am also very pleased to have had some time this week to catch up with sleep!
I still have loads of photos to edit so this is just a quickie to give you a glimpse of the party…
Posted in event, glasgow, photos
Also tagged 30th birthday, business, busy, cake, christening, conference, dance show, emerging social technologies conference, emtech, glasgow, groucho st judes, music manifesto, party, people, photos, press photocall, sarah jane haxton, showgirls, work
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