Engineering Photography

Industrial Update

Posted by on June 19, 2013 at 3:35 am

‘We’re doing an exhibition for the Oil Industry – We need an update on some of our machining capabilities’. Nothing was visualised until we arrived. Just a brief outline of a requirement for a couple of photographs and permission to photograph some large pieces of engineered product. A couple of photographs extends to a few [...]

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 [...]