Category Archives: Personal

2 Years and Counting

Well believe it or not but it’s been 2 years today since my first blog post and it’s hard to believe how much has changed in just one year, never mind 2! This time last year I said that I’d be blogging more about me, so you can all get to know the real Clive...

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Photo Restoration

Though I’d share a couple of images from a personal job I’ve been given to do by some friends to restore a couple of damaged prints. If you have have any damaged prints you’d like restored just let me know.

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Snow

I finally found a few mins to go out and record a few personal images of the snow in my local park here in Birmingham.

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I’m Still Here!

Just a quick message to let you all know I’m still here, in case you’d thought I’d fallen into a black hole and disappeared. Life is hectic at the moment with completing orders, following up enquiries, covering non wedding related assignments and shooting more weddings (my last for the year being on 29th Dec). So...

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Wedding Photojournalist Association (WPJA)

In a constant strive to push myself to improve my photography, I’m always looking out for new sources of inspiration and guidance, especially along the line of a documentary/reportage wedding coverage, which I enjoy the most. In my recent search I came across the Wedding Photojournalist Associatation (WPJA) who “grants membership to the most talented...

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Hello!!

Things have been very quiet around here in blog-land since my last post, not because of lack of anything to post, but simply because I’ve been super busy for the last few weeks.
For example, since my last post, amongst other things I’ve:
Covered 5 weddings. (one in Jamaica)
Photographed a pre-wedding shoot and the annual photo session...

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What’s My Style?

I was reading recently about other photographers who say that they can offer a variety of wedding styles on the wedding day, mixing traditional with contemporary and reportage. This got me thinking “what’s my style?” After much though I realise that I certainly don’t offer a mixture of styles on the wedding day.

In fact I...

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Wales

I recently went to South Wales for a few days break and of course had to take my camera. When we strolled down to local beach in Porthcawl I saw this stunning view across the sands that just needed recording.

I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with panoramic views of late, but rather just take one...

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Fünf Media and my 15 mins (more like, 1 min 44 secs) of fame!

Last week I was taking some more PR photos for Marverine Cole, at the ICC in Birmingham. You may remember I photographed Marverine a while back when she worked for the BBC. She’s now working for Sky News (see her at work, on her fab website: www.marverinecole.co.uk) and is also setting up her own media...

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Clive’s Five (12th July 2008: Charlotte and David)

Charlotte and David were married at St Marys and St Margarets and held their reception at Moor Hall. It was a bit like deja vu coming back to Moor Hall so soon as I was only there 15 days earlier, but I didn’t want to just take the same photos as before so I aimed...

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My next goal

As a photographer I’m always looking to improve the standard of my work and to bring it up to the next level so that rather than simply taking photographs, I can capture an image that will stand the test of time as a work of art. (I know, I’m not asking for much eh!!) –...

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Saleisha (May 2008)

If you’ve been following this blog since last year you’ll know that every year at this time I get to photograph the Ford family along with their daughter Saleisha as she grows up. We started when she was 1 year old and have not missed a year since. This was last year
Here’s the latest from...

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Portugal

I’m not long back from a break in Albufeira, in Portugal. We visited this area 3 years ago and loved it enough to visit again, staying between the historic old town and the more “touristy”new town. What I love about the old town, as with many other Portuguese towns is the wonderful architecture, many...

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Noticed anything different?

Noticed anything different about my blog today?
Just thought I’d change it’s look a bit.
Why? Because I’ve always wanted to display my photos a bit bigger as I think they’ll look far better. But my previous layout was very limiting as it only had a relatively small window to display in. By contrast this layout, as...

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The Lake District

I’m just a few days back from the Lakes and I’m missing it already. A few friends were going up for a weeks holiday and there was a space for me and my wife so they asked if we’d like to join them. As I hadn’t been for well over 30 years and can’t remember...

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