Morocco photo

In a slight move away from Birmingham, this photo is one from a series taken in Morocco.

Taken in the depths of the Medina in Essaouira, this photo involved a lot of waiting around.  The background and shaft of sunlight were great, but I needed someone walking in the light.  After a while a young girl came running in to the frame, followed by her mother.

It is difficult to appreciate this one at such a small size, but I am really pleased with it when printed large.  This one is available in the Crowded Gallery.

Marketing a City Photos

Well, the campaign to market Birmingham has started with various photo shoots – although there are a lot more to do.  The above is just one of the images that will be used, a panoramic showing the city centre from the roof of a building on the periphery.

Excuse the ‘over the top’ copyright markings.

The Marketing of a City

Today marks the start of a fairly large project involving a combination of stock photography and newly commissioned imagery in order to market the city of Birmingham.

The client is after a whole range of contemporary images that can be used worldwide to attract visitors and investments.

It really is a nice projects to work on, with a nice client (I am sure they don’t read this!) who has realistic timescales to work to.  Amongst other things, today involved time in a posh hotel and scaling a tall building in the hope of finding a really nice skyline (I think we found it in the end).

It is amazing how many doors working for this organisation opens.  Everywhere we went we were provided with staff to help out – unheard of usually.