What clicked about photography?

Well apart from the shutter, it was just good fun!
Like many people, my interests are simple;  Friends, skateboarding, guitar... and now photography.   


In the summer of 2008 I would spend every day with my close mates down the local skate park.  We all enjoyed taking photographs of each other, it gave us something to look back on as a memory of the good times.  I took a shine to photography when I saw a low angled silhouette of a skateboarder in a 'Sidewalk' magazine 2008.  Previously, I had always aspired to be like the skater in the image, but now I was more interested on being the photographer.

I became increasingly intrigued.  The more I found out, the more I wanted to learn;  I was hooked.  I wanted to take amazing photographs from then on, and that was the end of it.  The passion grew and by the next summer I was filming as well as shooting stills.  I'd made simple edits for me and my friends to enjoy but these rapidly got popular over YouTube and were getting views in the thousands.  

As I learnt more about how to take an eye catching image, my pictures seemed to attract more and more attention.  I had the exciting opportunity to take photographs of 'Holly Bendall' for 'FOX' and 'Lifer B.M.X.'  The Pictures were featured on their websites and magazines and earned me a nice little bit of cash. The realisation that I could make actually money from something I love to do was very exciting for me as I felt I now had a direction.

Freelance Work 

Later in 2009 I made a short video of Holly Bendall riding her B.M.X which could be used to advertise her sponsors.  

I used carefully considered camera angles and tried to edit it together in a up beat and modern way.  The video took off on the web and now has over a quarter million views.

Photos were also used in b.m.x magazines about Holly where my photos were featured and I was credited for the shots.  I was commissioned around £40 for the 6-8 images they published.

Now that I know about the career opportunities out there in photography, I am working hard to fine tune my technical abilities so that my photographs will be good enough to be used much more often.