Welcome to My World      

On these pages you will see a glimpse of my world seen through the lens of my camera. The moments, emotions and events that are shaping the Motion Picture Industry and all our lives on a daily basis but now they are just memories.

Photography has given me a way to help preserve some of these moments as a part of our history and heritage in our ever-changing world of the Motion Picture Industry. I hope you enjoy these moments as I have. 

My head contains a wild collection of memories - real, fictional or adapted - that are welded together into a new story. I hope to brings together the stories of One Old  Man's time behind a film camera, an show you some of my  personal still photos taken over 40 years in the film industry.

There is a middle way though, a type of photography that’s not quite as mundane as  creating a movie includes shooting still images that are used in promotional material. It’s a job for the Unit Stills Photographer, someone who hangs around the set taking pictures and trying desperately not to get in the way.

The Second Most Important Photographer on the Set is a Unit Stills Photographers have to create two kinds of images. The first documents the making of the movie and includes close-ups of the actors and crew, wide shots of the crew shooting the action, the set and the equipment.

It all sounds like straightforward stuff – and fun too – but shooting on a film set does pose some very special challenges. The biggest of course, is that the photographer’s camera is the least important on the shoot. The best position will always be taken by the movie camera which means that you have to work knowing that you’re missing the composition you’d really want because someone else’s gear is in the way — and theirs is much bigger than yours.

And you might miss the best moments too. Once the director shouts “action” the photographer has to stop working.

While much of the crew and actors are standing around and waiting, you’ll be free to shoot as much as you want. But as soon as it looks like the fighting’s about to begin or the lips meet, you’ll have to put your camera away.

In the film industry, it’s all about who you know,” he warns. “Nothing means more than connections. You could have the top gear cameras equipment etc and have a great portfolio. It all about the other photographer knows somebody.”

Breaking into movie photography then might mean spending as much time as possible around movie people rather than standing behind the camera. That might not result in a paid job, but at least it will be glamorous and fun – and if you do get to use your camera you’ll be able shoot some stars without getting covered in baked beans.

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