California Nevada Arizona here I come. Was hoping to find a band to shoot in the desert to eventually post up here. If that doesn’t work out I will be posting various travel shots up on Flickr. So bye bye for now, back in blighty on April 18th.

You too can do one of your blog at Wordle.net

October has been my busiest month for years with Photoshoots, so finally added loads of new testimonials on the BandPhotography homepage.

I really appreciate it when customers (hate to call them that) feed back to me their thoughts of how the shoot went. Means a lot!

Some new photos added to flickr too!

Bye for now! – Simon x

It seems Dell have been having problems on their upgrade site at https://win7.dell.com/ . Dell doesnt seem to recognise service tags – which identify a PC – especially if the Dell has been bought from another reseller such as PC World in the past 6 months or so and their machine was shipped there prior to the windows 7 eligibility upgrade date of June 29th. There are loads of disgruntled Dell users out there who want to update to Windows 7. makes you wish you had an Apple eh!

Dell – surely the date that matters is the date that a customer bought one of your PC’s and not the date you shipped it to a reseller – well duh! Mines was bought on October 1st from PC World and Dell doesnt see my machine as eligible for the upgrade to windows 7.  Check out Dells own forums – lots of unhappy Dell users.

Update: A rather lovely chap called Robert at PC World has intervened after I refered the matter back to them. He knew a guy high up at Dell and had a word or two with him. Robert called me back the next day and said that Dell have resolved the matter. Having said that Robert is posting me a voucher to purchase the upgrade from PC World, so thats Kudos points for them – great customer service. The same cant be said when you pick up the phone and call India ( I mean Dell)

Just re-designed the web design arm of my multi-million operation lol.
Feel free to check it out at www.webleeds.co.uk and let me know if you need a hand with any web design needs!

Heres the latest shots i took of a great bloke called Jordan, it was nice to apply a little light direction and get these.

Starting to really love fashion portraiture, especially when I get animated subjects, give me a shout if you too need any portraits done.

Looking forward to the next version of BT Tradespace when it comes out.

Have been given a sneak peak of it here: url:  getready.bttradespace.com.

Maybe its a serious contender for many a wordpress user out there who finds eCommerce integration with WordPress a bit of a dark art!

Inside of Nicki Rogers CD

Hi folks, finally finished designing Nicki Rogers new CD album cover, hope you like it. I didnt do the photography, but there was still a lot of Photoshop work, plenty of colouring / texturising etc to get the effect, all layed up nicely for a digipack in Illustrator.

Front and Back cover Nicki Rogers CD

You can also see them here.

working on the new site to showcase my web design work which goes under the banner of Tojam media, really excited about it and will let you know when its up. It integrates my photography a lot more.

Thinking about offering a service to bands where i shoot their video in full HD on my Nikon D90. Quality should be quite cinematic rather than ‘video-like’ due to being able to put on a variety of camera lenses and have full control of depth of field etc (unlike on video camcorders)

Is this a service anyone would be interested in, i could do the shooting – one day in the studio, one day on location, and all the editing for under £1000!!