This was a lovely little photoshoot for Penrith Rugby Union Football Club. As will all semi professional sports clubs in this fine country of ours, they have to diversify and look for revenue streams where they can find them.

It was an especially nice treat to be asked to shoot the interior of Bartle House. The offices, located in the heart of Manchester’s legal and financial district in Manchester city centre. Stonebridge had already bought a considerable amount of work from my website to hang in the communal areas and the meeting rooms, so to be able to pop and and spend the morning producing interior photographs for their marketing and website was great.

I was finishing a meal at my favourite restaurant - you've guessed it - Nutters - with my brother in law, when Andrew asked us to join him at the bar as service had finished. Aside from being beyond full and perhaps slightly tipsy, we agreed and joined him. The team at Nutter's Restaurant take the birthday celebrations seriously and in this case, the first one since Rodney, his Father passed away. So it was an honour to have been asked.

One year on from the opening night launch at the Bird at Birtle, owner Andrew Nutter asked me if I would like to come to the 1 year celebration party - an event organised by the establishment to say thank you to all their suppliers and friends who had helped make it such a success. 

I was delighted to be approached by the Paul Mellon Centre in London earlier in the year to locate and shoot 5 locations in Manchester that had been painted or observed by the local artists LS Lowry.

I spent a super afternoon spent in the grand surroundings of the Midland hotel in Manchester photographing the award ceremony for Inspiring Awards. An incredible event, it is held every year and this year was also their 25th anniversary. 

I especially love doing commercial photography with local business. And although I’m very happy to travel all over, there's something nice about keeping the local economy ticking over.

I find myself doing photoshoots in some bizarre places. From a tiny boardroom or B&B bedroom, tothe 17th floor of a construction site, to a crypt under a church. 

I was delighted to be asked to shoot the soft launch of the refurbished Haighton Manor on Sunday 4th September for Brunning and Price as it joined their family of pub restaurants.

Two photoshoots for DMM Professional - the arm of DMM International that designs and manufactures working at height safety gear, rather than climbing equipment - but both used in the same catalogue.

It’s always fantastic to pick up new commercial photography clients. When Hultons Landscapes got in touch a week or so back, I was excited. The brief was to shoot a number of ongoing projects across the northwest for use online and in awards entries.

I truly love what I do. Be it capturing a wedding, shooting architecture or photographing an event like this, it provides me with such a diverse range of photographic challenges (and great nights out as well).

As well as being a photographer, I also own Think Design Manchester, a website and design agency, who produce high end graphic design to businesses large and small. One of which I recently completed (read about it here). It was large graphic design job for Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald. This particular joint venture business was responsible for maintaining the network of roads in Kent called Area 4, for Highways England.

A recent photoshoot for scriptwriter and local poet, Argh Kid (David Scott).

With any trade I think you are always learning so when the opportunity came up to do a type of studio photography I hadn't done before, I leapt at the chance. This project in question, was to shoot the product photography for Showerdrape Ltd, a Manchester based bathroom accessories trade supplier in February.

A location shoot for GE Robinson, a timber yard that operates out of several branches across the UK. I was referred via design agency in Northern Ireland who had been commissioed by the parent company Haldane Fisher to design and build a new website for GE Robinson.

You can probably imagine the thoughts running through my head when I got a call asking if I could come a photograph a waxing studio in my home town of Radcliffe.

Going into a working business to photograph it’s working day is always a challenge. Particularly when it’s a deadline driven company like Galloways Print is. This photoshoot was part of a larger project that involved the redesign and build of their website (see here).

Over the past year I have done quite a lot of exterior and interior photography for hotels and restaurants, so you can imagine my excitement when I was asked to shoot one of the best restaurants in the North West?

A morning’s photography for Greyland, a Manchester based cleaning product company. I was approached via my website to see if I would come to their head office and take 8-10 head shots for their new website.

I was delighted to be commissioned (via a third party Marketing Agency - Bluestar Marketing) to shoot an important event for Amaze, a digital agency founded 20 years ago, who work with some of the works leading brands. The event was their 20th birthday conference and party.

I love the variety being a photographer and designer brings to my daily life. Gone are the days when I was chained to my desk, sometimes spending 12 hours or more staring at a Mac. Sure, I still have days like that. The main difference is now I get to go to new places and meet new people sometimes 2-3 times a week. This post is an example of that. 

One thing that hotels and bed and breakfast establishments need to do is sell rooms. A lot of hotels and b&bs use the likes of laterooms.com or Groupon for example.