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I followed Nick Cowley this week. He is an HEA (Home Energy Advisor) for G-Ten and the client was the Sustainability Team for Camden Council. Nick can assess your house and give you advice on how to use less energy by replacing all the light bulbs with energy efficient ones, put reflectors on your radiators, rig up a monitor on your meter and check the walls and roof insulation. It was a job full of visual demonstrations which is increasing rare in our service economy and a real joy to photograph. My favorite is this one in the attic, the sun shone in to illuminate the curious house owner and stair well and I just bounced the flash (SB-800 if you're interested) against the brick to light up the inspection with a warmer yellow (brick) light.

I'm 5ft 8" and (not forgetting the) three quarters; I stand as tall as any average man but this wasn't enough when I was in a room with both the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race teams for a charity dinner event hosted by Martin Bayfield (the rugby international) I may have exaggerated the height a little with the camera angle in the far left photo but it felt like I was a small child again.
So they all go to a top university, they are all tall and they are all fine specimens of athleticism (I wasn't the alpha male in the room today). The client was MBN Promotions and I've photographed many sports stars, old and new, for them over the years.

4000 BC? No, 4000 ISO! There isn't much light in the British Museum so as to preserve their many artifacts from the ravishes of light over time so in the preNikonD3S period which finished at the beginning of 2010AD taking photographs with no flash and being able to see anything in them afterwards was a problem. I am so old I remember putting film in my camera and worrying about pushing the development two stops; I now regularly shoot at 3200 ISO and the results at 6400 ISO are very good too.
This job was for the History of the world in 100 objects project. Did you know there are still people out there who can make flint tools?

Now, I'm a dedicated pay as you go Oyster card holder and this particular morning's London transport wasn't pleasant or indeed quick... but if you ever get the chance to go through London on the same means of transport as HRH Prince Charles, complete with four motorcycle outriders and police escort it is much, much quicker (and I didn't have to touch in).
I did a few sneaky royal waves out the window to immobile motorists; is that wrong?
The client was Business in the Community

I was in 11 Downing street to photograph Alistair Darling, our current Chancellor of the Exchequer for the charity Mosaic. The dynamic range between eyebrow and hair wasn't enough to need an HDR double exposure image though. My new Nikon D3s was up to the job in low light.

I enjoy the contrast in lifestyle from dealing with photographing legendary 20th century figures one day and then be scrabbling about in the rubbish bin for used recyclable waste the next.

Linklaters, the international law firm in London, is so big it is like entering a small community I'm going to call Legal-town. Managing just their own waste is a big job and is taken seriously. I set up the studio lights and equipment in the restaurant area (close to the bins) and arranged rubbish on a backdrop of the company colours.