News from the Picturedesk

The cover below won the Future publishing’s 2005 ‘highly commended cover of the year’ – Which I am delighted about! Other 2005 Future awards were presented to Hammer for the Avenged Sevenfold cover (December 2005) and Total Guitars summit front cover (August 2005).

‘highly commended cover of the year’

‘Best cover December 2005’

The Total Guitar summit front cover was actually put together from 5 individual shoots backstage at ‘Download 2005’. Originally Toni Iommi was supposed to be standing at the back with Slash but Toni was too busy on the day. So we had to jig everything around to make it work. To keep everything in place we pasted polaroids together as we shot to make sure it would all fit. Thankfully I shot Scotty Ian standing up as well so we made the cover work in the end – but only just!

‘Best Cover August 2005’

Happy New Year to everyone who reads this blog!

Had an awesome time in Cornwall for New Years and Christmas was pretty damn good too!

I received an email from one grumpy individual asking why I didn’t update my blog every day like some other photographers!!?

Welll…
this isn’t a diary or a running comentary of my life in the way some other snappers like to do it. For me this is all about the pictures that I take in my life. Sometimes they may be personal and other times they will be related to my professional work. I seriously don’t have time to write a day by day account of what I get up to and even if I did, I don’t want to share it with every Tom, Dick or Sally.

However…
I will update the blog as often as possible. If I have News and when I have shots that I want to share I’ll post them up as soon as I can. Please leave you comments so I know someone appreciates this site?

That all said this year promises to be a great one and you never know my main site may get finished as well. I hope it is a great one for you too! Best wishes and check back soon. JOHN Mc…x

Just to prove I am working this year here are some shots I did earlier using fishing wire and some sticky back plastic!

The Darkness – shot on January 5th 2006

Off on tour with my Welsh buddies in BFMV and then off to ***** with some **** rockers that I can’t tell you about. Pix on-line soon!

Cornwall totally rocks in its own very special way. Spent a few days decorating the gaff after the builders had finished. Top bit of craftmanship fixing some of the old beams. The place is getting ready for a very special New Years eve! Back into London tomorrow which will blow my mind after the last few days of tranquility. Would of loved a band to shoot down there because the skies were just awesome.

The sky when I arrived!

View at 7.30am

Hey Bob can ya fix it?

Yes you can!

View as I was leaving!

JEEZ! I am totally knackered! Just got back from New York. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks with no time for myself unless you count 7 hours on a long haul flight. All went well at the Roadrunner concert. I shot some nice session stuff with some of the bands on the bill inbetween the rehearsals during the week. Can you believe it was -7c. Seriously -7 degrees!!! Thats the kind of cold that if the wind blows right your face feels like it is falling off. Machinehead are as hard as nails – they didn’t mind the cold at all! A bit disapointed that Max Cavalera didn’t show. I heard there was a lot of politics behind the scenes. No Sepultura reunion! Gutted! I shouldn’t moan! The last few days have been a blast. Thanks to Roadrunner for looking after us.

Crazy Taxi stuff below and Rob Flynn. I’ll get some live stuff up as soon as I finish editing! Had to do everything digitally because of the Christmas deadlines. What really annoys me is sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours editing!

Backstage at the Nokia Theatre – Just before stage time. Rob (Machinehead) & Brian (Shadowsfall)

Corey from Slipknot dropped in.

Ville Valo also stepped in for a Type o’ Negative song and kept myself and Jamie (Hammer Ed) entertained in the evenings.
Here is Ville sporting this years winter look!

In Cornwall – Back Wednesday!

A quick sale before Christmas. Green Day in London. It’s a ‘First Print’ from what will be a limited run of only 25 in total. Auction ends Saturday and will be posted Monday Special delivery in time for Christmas. I am happy for it to go at a tenner!


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