Construction Photography

Water Main installation – 55km

Posted by on June 15, 2013 at 3:38 am

‘I could hear the sound of some sort of activity but it was so dark down there I could see nothing..’ The installation of a 55km water pipe was an interesting project to photograph. After a late afternoon phone call on a Friday followed by an early Monday morning site induction I was ready to [...]

Armistead Wind Farm

Posted by on June 14, 2013 at 3:38 pm

Alternative energy project Armistead Wind farm was an interesting project to shoot with various obstacles to overcome including exclusion zone working, turbine erection only happening in fair weather and some of that fair weather only happening at night. Much of the construction work of the wind turbines is done off site leading to the final [...]

Hydro Electric Power scheme

Posted by on June 14, 2013 at 3:35 am

This is one of the images produced for Hydro Electricity Engineering company Gilkes, of their Coniston Hydro scheme in the Lake District. This was part of a calendar shoot where I intended shooting this particular image at night and lighting the scheme incorporating light trails, but access to the site was deemed too dangerous for [...]

Rail Photography, Dawlish, Cumbria, Yorkshire

Posted by on June 9, 2013 at 3:40 am

A few years ago I travelled around the South of France shooting the French High Speed Line for the then Corus Rail. Now, it’s new owners contacted me again for more images of new rail products at locations throughout the UK. Arranging the weather is always the most difficult aspect of this work. Combined with [...]