Some of you who have been following me for a while, since I started this website will have noticed a change. There’s a big emphasis on live music photography now.
I’ve changed the theme and layout of the website too. My original idea was to have my restaurant and food blog on here whilst also offering a service for CV translation and improvement.
Finally, I didn’t push the CV services and I moved to micro-blogging on Instagram. This blog article, or a version of it, was something I started writing in March 2018, almost 2 years ago!
Since I had been involved in food and drink events, I had started taking photos of the events myself in order to use in promotional material. I quite enjoyed it, especially capturing the people, the food didn’t always turn out looking great, especially at the start! The people, however, they looked great.
I had been playing the guitar on and off since around the age of 18 when I went to university. I would go through phases, even playing in a worship band for a while with my Epiphone Les Paul (a guitar I still have to this day!).
After some aborted musical collaborations in South Wales, fast forward a few years and a busy work-life and a lot of moving around the UK I end up in Preston, in the north of England. There I’m living with a Scottish colleague who, like me, likes hard rock and heavy metal. We start going out to see and support local bands playing live. I love that raw energy and humbling “not quite there yet” unproduced sound. All bands have to start somewhere and aren’t perfectly formed from the off.
Alas, things were not to last in Preston, the live music venue closed and became a “Frog and bucket” comedy club, and now it looks like it has been demolished to make way for “affordable” housing.
Not long after, the company in Preston asks me to go work on a client project in Madrid “for 6 months”. Six months turn into a few years, I meet my wife and decide to leave the UK for Spain permanently, I start shipping my guitars over and start following local bands and going to see open mics, with the aim of performing myself. In the meantime, I begin taking some photos and video on my phone, then things evolve.
Combining the things I had learned in event photography and using a DSLR my work is now available to see on here, mostly live music photography, evolving as I learn more and change equipment.
I still organise and take photos of food and drinks events, networking events and restaurant reviews, and am also available for portrait shoots in my studio. No doubt there will be a mix that appears on here to showcase my abilities.
