Project 52 ... 31

Meet moody Vince...
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D200 Tamron 17 - 50 f2.8, no strobes...

Well, moody is a little unfair, okay, well a lot unfair. I first met Vince on the Scott Kelby 2008 World Wide Photowalk in Windsor last year. The same time as I met Glyn (photographed here). Glyn and Vince hit it off and became good friends and when you become friends with a photographer, then they are going to shoot you sooner or later.

Vince can been seen in multiple guises on Glyn's Blog, a lot of which are moody. So when we were walking around Eton last week, and we found a fantastic covered entrance to a mews with these amazing rendered friezes on the walls, I had to shoot him there. I also kept telling him to be 'moody'.

'You sound just like Glyn', he said. Pleased with that, I kept shooting. But this is my favourite shot of the afternoon. Vince is trying not to laugh as I am saying 'moody'... that was the shot! You can just see a smirk developing out of the corner of his mouth... Thanks for being patient with me Vince!

Project 52 ... 27

This is Roger.
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D200, Tamron 17 - 50 f2.8, natural light

Roger is an Architect and has been practising for a number of years with great success. He has won many awards over the years. But what he is known for outside of work is climbing. he has climbed more mountains than most people on the planet! His last trip was to a peak in the Everest range a mere 200m lower than the main peak itself! Frost bite and the cold mean nothing to him! (I wasn't going to climb a mountain for this shot, the stairs were high enough!)

This picture is taken in his studio, in the gods, in the natural light streaming in from a rooflight to camera left. He climbs up here everyday, right. This photograph is an interesting contrast with the next one of Ross. Most architects use computers in their work and in Roger's office this is no exception, but he still uses a drawing board. I should at this point add that he is an advanced Autocad user, with a certificate to prove it...

Thanks for letting me take this shot Roger.

Project 52 ... 22

Meet Krzysztof. Krzysztof is an honest to goodness, living, breathing, Time Lord.

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D200, Tamron 17 - 50 f2.8, available light

He tells me ...

'my job is to build and run the most accurate atomic clock to calibrate the unit of time of the UK and global time scale. As the unit of time (the second) is defined base on a period of characteristic oscillations in a caesium atom, I need to physically take some caesium, wiggle it with microwaves (a bit like in the m-w oven) of approximately known frequency and check if the atoms respond to the wiggle. They would only respond if m-w frequency is just right. Better even, I can tune that frequency so the atomic response is max. This gives me a frequency of accurately known value (the atoms are telling me what it is), which I can feed into a clock.'

Right. I have known Krzysztof for years and he is a well liked and respected member of the community. Someday he is going to show me around Krakow I hope. We met when our boys were in the same school - that's the time when you lose your identity and become someone's dad, we got on well form the start!

When I popped around to take his portrait, he asked me to include a clock that belonged to his Grandfather, which was perfect given his job! However, the clock was in a really dark corner of the house and try as I might, I could not light the clock and Krzysztof. So we retired to his conservatory and I did a multiple exposure in camera and it worked. I then added a few more of the clocks in photoshop afterwards. The tint is reminiscent of 'Alfred Steiglitz, 'Camera Work' photographs which I admire so much.