August 27th, 2008 §
The 2008/2009 Shred Publishing Print Demon brochure has just gone to print and will be delivered to businesses across the Plymouth area by the Shred 500; it can also be viewed on-line at
www.printdemon.com Featured above is Shred founder and Director Steve Toze.
The brochure features ten portraits of local business-people; all clients of Shred Publishing, with the aim of showcasing both local businesses and services as well as Shred’s own products and services. Each portrait was taken on-location in order to capture the subjects during the course of their normal working day and composed to fit the layout requirements of the brochure. A few more tears from the brochure below.
Barbara Jones of Jones Recruitment
Martyn Salt of mountain bike event/race organiser Inevent
Owen Pike of O.F. Pike Carpentry
If you require a photographer to work with you on a commercial or corporate project please either call or email me to discuss your photographic requirements.
August 22nd, 2008 §
Also at the Celebrate Start Bay event last weekend was the adventure race organiser Endurance Life with the launch of their new Trail Blaze course which begins and ends at the Sea Breeze Cafe in Torcross; an electronic key is hired from the cafe which is then used at each of the checkpoints at intervals along each of the five way-marked routes which vary from 2 to 24 miles along the coastline between Strete Gate and East Portlemouth. On completion of a route the overall time and split times are automatically uploaded to a leaderboard on the Trail Blaze website and the time and current leaderboard position is sent to the individual’s mobile phone via SMS. The launch was far more low-key than planned due to the heavy storms that hit the Devon coast overnight making it impossible to erect the Endurance Life gantry which the trail runners were to set-off from, but the rain eased to a drizzle for the start at 11AM and the athletes set-off in on the inaugural run which included members of the British Telemark Ski Team who were in South Devon for a Summer training weekend.
August 20th, 2008 §
Clive Fairweather is one of the Westcountry’s leading traditional storytellers, and was part of the entertainment at last Saturday’s Celebrate Start Bay event that I covered on assignment for the Slapton Line Partnership/South Hams District Council. With a deep interest in folk history, Clive’s repertoire of over 400 stories offer living interactions with the past in tales that convey the dramas and delights of other times.
August 10th, 2008 §
Darren Mabbott is the Managing Director of Silverfish UK Ltd, a mountain bike importer/distributor and the exclusive UK agency for Rocky Mountain, Cove, Race Face, e.thirteen, THE, and SDG amongst others. This is another portrait in the series of images of local business people that I’m currently working on for a design and print agency’s forthcoming brochure.
August 9th, 2008 §
The new www.simonkeitch.com site is now online and features a broad selection of my most recent work. I’ve been planning a re-launch for some time as although I liked the original site for its clean and simple layout and design, I wanted to move forwards with a slicker, bolder, and even cleaner gallery design that would put all the emphasis on the images themselves. After some research I eventually opted for the excellent SlideShowPro plug-in for Adobe Lightroom which I used to create the Flash animated slideshows on the homepage and the portfolio galleries, before inserting them into the website’s pages. I will continue to refine the new site and there are more features that I’m planning to add in the future as time allows but the images look great and the software makes it very easy for me to update the site with new work.
August 3rd, 2008 §
John Fordy is the owner and founder of the Surfing Life surf shops; I shot this portrait of him in the Plymouth store a couple of days ago just before closing time so we didn’t disturb the customers when I started setting up lights and inevitably begun rearranging the shop displays in the name of getting a good photograph. John was a great subject and made the shoot feel pretty easy; we were done by 6:00PM with some strong images and a couple of alternate looks. The photograph of John is part of a series of commercial portraits that I’m currently producing on assignment for a design and print agency that wishes to feature a cross-section of their local clients (all Plymouth based business people) in their upcoming brochure advertising the company’s various products and services.
