national geographic...

More charity shop love and another absolute find!

Incredible photography and inspiring background stories...

Not to mention the rather epic Valentines Day inscription... 

Anyway, probably best to leave it to a few select images...

Classic cover...

 Jane, how could you?!

british countryside...

How incomplete my life would be without op shops... Giving new life to others unwanted goods and supporting a charity at the same time...

Ever since my visit to Copenhagen in the summer, I've been increasingly taken with the idea of learning more about natural surroundings and foraging for local produce to incorporate into my cooking (cheers Scotty!) and i think I may have found the book to help me do it... 

An amazing, enlightening, informative read, it's been rad to learn more about British countryside and hopefully I can put this new knowledge and skill set to use! Look out 'shrooms!

A book for all seasons...

 Britain's got mountains?!

 The hills are alive...

How low can you go...

 Fruits and berries!

 Birds for watching, not for eating...

 Finding your perfect cottage...

 No great whites here... thankfully...

Shroom time!

 Weed time?! Seaweed that is...

 ALL four seasons...

 Pretty things...

So arbourous...

edf olympic commercial...

There's been a few commercial bits and pieces I worked on last year, training as a grip, that have been popping up on the tv this summer, and this is one of them. Amazing how this little bouncing snap seems to have captivated the British audience!

Flaring on set...

joining the OM1 club...

While gripping on a feature film over the summer, I had the chance to work alongside a couple of amazing photographers, Nicola Dove and Agatha Nitecka. I was especially inspired by Agatha who rolled onto set halfway through with a Nikon FM2 on one shoulder and an FM3 on the other! 

It inspired me to try to get back to shooting film more regularly and so I thought the purchase of a small, manual, 35mm slr was in order... 

Enter the Olympus OM1 into my life! She's a beauty... One roll down, many, many to go...

Check out my brother Jack Johns blog for more proof of the OM1s awesomeness!

So pretty... So simple...

Test roll numero uno...

movement issue 40...

Last year I ventured into the North Sea for some autumn exploration with Jack Johns, Ben Player and Ed Saltau. Despite the short days and trying conditions it ranks up there as one of my favourite surf trips ever... It truly seems like an age since I shot the photos in this issue but, having finally seen the feature in the flesh, I can honestly say it's been worth the wait! 

Hope yall enjoy... You can get copies of the mag here...

Opening spread... Ben enjoying rain(bows), hail and shine... All at once!

Opening words...

 And now, for the feature presentation...

Thanks to Al McKinnon (cover photo) for truly getting the job done in my absence!

jeff's flyin...

Daaaaaammmmnn! Ma boy Jeffrey Hubbard just released a one of the most ridiculous online video parts I've ever seen, from a couple of weeks in Mexico earlier this year, smoothly directed and shot by Richard Lornie... Huge waves, incredible air and epic technique... 

Click on the link at the bottom to watch!

Here's a couple of pics from last years Canarian season which prove that Hubb can fly, whether in or out of Mexico...

Just floatin'...

Kablammo!

Hubb's Mexican Dream... from Chout Films on Vimeo.

mix o music...

Had a bit of a charity shop field day last week...

Some golden Billie Holiday, electro beats care of Mantronix and some Bananarama to top it off, cause that was my 80s childhood... All for the outrageous price of £1.50... Dreamy...

Cause everyone needs more Billie in their life...

80's beatz yo!

Rage days...

thank you london 2012...

Damn the Paralympics have been incredible! 

Topped the Olympics for me personally... London put on one hell of a show this summer and it made me proud to be part British and proud to live in this city! Thanks to Lucy for igniting the Paralympic passion and my brother Mellis for hooking me up with a coupla tickets and a new found love for wheelchair ballin!

Till Rio 2016... Congratulations to all you Paralympians!

Finals time at North Greenwich...

Front and centre!

Congratulations to the Aussie lads for the silver... Patrick Anderson and Canada just too strong!

new year dreaming...

More than halfway through the year and I'm already looking forward to the festive season, especially if NYE turns out to be anything like last year. A decadent evening long feast, fine drinks, fine friends, board games, lanterns, hide and seek and a midnight swim in the icy waters of Porthgwarra... Thanks for having us Mama Ley, twas a night to remember...

The next day brought some hazy heads, but twas nothing a pub lunch and a fresh stroll along the Cornish coast couldn't fix... A belated cheers to 2011 and bring on the rest of 2012! x

 Poppin bottles yo!

Chocolate covered strawberries anyone?

 The boyos on the boil...

 Steak, mash and a Jig...

 Cheers everyone! Let's get nude!

 Ocean love...

 So bubbly...

 So ghosty...

 Comfort is a British pub...

 Family love...

Happy 2012!