Another great shoot for a hotel, this time The Danubius Regents Park, who have the fortunate location of being right next to my favourite London Royal Park. I did end up staying at the hotel, due to an early start on the second shoot day, which not only meant a fabulous dinner at the hotel … Read More
Chefs
Rubens Hotel Head-Shots, Staff Portraits, Food & Cocktails!
This is a small sample from a full day of shooting at the fabulous Rubens Hotel, which is always a major hub of activity at all hours of the day. Squeezing in photos is always a challenge, yet it gets done, with great organisation from the marketing department, willing staff, understanding customers (actually they often … Read More
California Prunes at Food Matters Show at Excel
Another delicious job for California Prunes; this time at Food Matters show at Excel London, where the sales team were meeting current and potential clients. California Prunes also had chef Peter Sidwell doing a food demonstration again and Halael Shafie, a nutritionist, who advocates balanced and healthy eating – not dieting, giving a talk. As … Read More
California Prunes Event Photography at Just Vegan Festival
For this shoot, I was asked to attend the Just V Show at Olympia London, to capture the day’s events for California Prunes, who were sampling their prune juice all day and giving out packs of prunes to promote their product. They also had a live chef’s kitchen where respected chefs Peter Cook, Rosemary Shrager and … Read More
Baxterstorey Contract Caterers Photography for Tendering
This was a full day of shooting for Baxterstorey, which involved visiting a variety of different sites to capture shots of their new spaces, food and drink and some street style photos in the area they were hoping to win a tender for. Like a lot of these types of shoots, having flexible photography skills … Read More
Portrait Photography for BaxterStorey
It was great to be asked by the London team at BaxterStorey to shoot some fresh new portraits of their staff for use in a series of company documents. They wanted fresh and natural shots, which were quite relaxed and reflected the great teamwork amongst staff. We had to power through a lot of shots … Read More
Danubius Regents Park Hotel Photography
It was time for some new images for the Danubius Hotel Regents Park to refresh their website, marketing material and social media feeds. They wanted to get some shots of the beautiful wedding set-up and stunning cake, food shots, which would normally be part of the business lunch meetings rooms and a feature cocktail. ” … Read More
Ch&Co Contract Caterers Food Photography Showcase
I was asked by Ch&Co Group, a commercial catering company, to shoot a food showcase event, which they were organising to pitch to some potential clients. As the chefs were going to all the effort of cooking up a great display of food and the staff were pulling all the stops out to make up samples and informative … Read More
Portrait of Stuart Cauldwell Head Chef at Roast Restaurant Borough Market
Delighted to see the issue of Roast Magazine out this month, celebrating all the iconic restaurant has to offer as well as other foodie features, recipes and some great behind-the-scenes pics – captured by staff. In preparation for the page 10 feature and the Roast Website, I was delighted to meet the new head chef Stuart … Read More
Roast Restaurant Ten Year Anniversary Portrait Photography
I was asked to photograph the whole team at Roast, who are celebrating Roast’s 10 year anniversary and still doing a thriving business. It was also a chance to photograph the new head chef Anthony Fletcher and prove that a chef smiling in a photograph is a great idea. Having spent quite a lot of time … Read More
Portraits for Holroyd Howe Staff for their Website
Holroyd Howe, a food services provider within independent schools were looking for some updated staff headshots for their new website. Their whole brand is based on freshness, natural ingredients and creativity so it was important that the images, whilst professional, reflected this. So an outdoor shoot, with natural greenery in the background was an obvious solution. Time was limited as staff were … Read More
Staff Portrait Photography at The Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel
I was commissioned by The Jumeirah Carlton Tower to shoot the incoming General Manager Katie Benson, who I had photographed about five years before for The Langham London, so it was lovely to see her again. Even though she had a really busy day with inductions and meetings and so on, we managed to grab … Read More
Strada New Menu Launch Photography
Being in the hospitality world and with lots of experience photographing events and parties, I often get asked by my clients to shoot various events for them and their clients. This one was slightly different to the last few parties I had shot as it had a live cooking demonstration to show off Strada’s new menu. I’d eaten at … Read More
Wilcox Burchmore Hospitality Kitchen Design Company Photoshoot
Cathy Wilcox & Michael Burchmore, who run Wilcox Burchmore, a commercial catering design & installation company, approached me wanting professional photography to update their website & marketing material. They also needed some input on how to go about it as they hadn’t done a professional photo shoot for their business before. I suggested the best … Read More
A Dorking Adventure with Roast Restaurant
This was an absolutely wonderful shoot – featuring three of my very favourite things – wine, food and cute animals! I was hired by Roast founder Iqbal Wahhab to accompany him and his new head chef, Stuart Cauldwell, on a trip, alongside their PR company and a food writer, to capture images, as they visited supplies … Read More
Summer Lodge Hotel and Acorn Inn Photography
I was delighted to be asked to do this shoot for The Red Carnation Hotel Group as it meant I got to sleep in the loveliest hotel I’ve ever stayed in – the luxurious 5 Star Summer Lodge. However, don’t be too envious, our two day shoot was long and involved early starts – I … Read More
Bbar Victoria – Restaurant Photography Shoot
For this shoot the Red Carnation Hotel marketing team, along side the manager of Bbar, simply had a shot list of items they wanted to get covered for their brand new website. So the day was a very full one consisting of interior photography of the upstairs restaurant, atmospheric photos of the basement bar, photos … Read More