Jersey Evening Post

Australia bound..!!

Posted 6 October 2009

It’s been a while since the last post but a lot has been happening….

By far the most important and certainly the most exciting is I took voluntary redundancy from the Jersey Evening Post and I’ll be emigrating to Perth in Western Australia in about 5 weeks..!!

It was a tough decision leaving a fantastic full time newspaper job (during a recession..!!) but the time was right and my wife Terese was keen to return home. It’s going to be a steep learning curve setting up a new photography business and all the hassles of being freelance but it will be a great challenge and hopefully rewarding.

The plan is to concentrate on my foreign assignments and humanitarian work over the next few years and also make contact with the various newspapers over there..I’m still very much a newspaper photographer at heart..!

The last 8 years at the JEP have been amazing. I was incredibly fortunate to be offered the job in the first place. There is very little movement in the department so when a position comes up it is always hotly contested. I had little experience then but bags of energy and enthusiasm which sometimes counts for a lot. I’ve leant an enormous amount and the opportunity to work on foreign assignments as well as the day to day work was great.

I’ll miss the crack with the other guys who are a great bunch and it has been a real privilege to be part of that. The last few weeks where typically busy and varied so below are some of jobs I did…

I’ll keep you updated with any more news but for now it will be the occasional freelance job and lots of packing..!!..

Jersey Live 2009. Dizzee Rascal on the Main Stage. (Jersey Evening Post)

Armed police surround the Royal Court at the start of the trial of one of the UK's most notorious drug criminals. (Jersey Evening Post)

Jersey International Air Display 2009. RAF Red Arrows. (Jersey Evening Post)

Gladys Manning and her sister Christine Manning who claim to have seen a UFO in their back garden in Gorey. (Jersey Evening Post)

Jersey Now Autumn Fashion. (Jersey Evening Post)

Jersey Evening Post Assignments

Posted 1 August 2009

As previously mentioned I haven’t posted many images from my day to day work for a while so here’s a selection from over the last few weeks.

Laneez Surf School students make their way to the surf on St Ouens beach. (Jersey Evening Post)

Andy Errington-Rennell Funeral Director at Pitcher & Le Quesne who has worked there for 20 years. (Jersey Evening Post)

Reg Stock 2 music festival in aid of Amnesty International. Andy Coleman singing in the Om Stage. (Jersey Evening Post)

Caesarean Cycling Club Round the Bays Road Race descending into Corbiere. (Jersey Evening Post)

Matthew Lewis actor from Harry Potter. (Jersey Evening Post)

Han de Jong Chief Economist at ABN-AMRO. (Jersey Evening Post)

Vanessa Lee President of the Insurance Institute of Jersey. (Jersey Evening Post)

Jersey Swimming Club Green Island to Havre des Pas swim. (Jersey Evening Post)

Aerial Pictures over Jersey

Posted 28 July 2009

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything from my job at the Jersey Evening Post so I’ll be including some image sets over the next few weeks. This set was from a round Island flight in a Piper Cub aircraft. This old high wing, slow plane with the side door taken off is perfect for aerial photography and a great way to get a completely different perspective of where I live. It was a perfect day for flying and I managed to fill a number of centre spreads for the paper despite only being in the air for 30 minutes.Recession busting value for money eh..!!

La Rocco Tower and St Ouens Bay (Jersey Evening Post)

Seymour Tower and walkers on south-east coast. (Jersey Evening Post)

View over south coast looking towards Gorey. (Jersey Evening Post)

People working on oyster beds in Grouville Bay. (Jersey Evening Post)

La Rocque Pier. (Jersey Evening Post)

People walking on the beach in Grouville Bay. (Jersey Evening Post)

Dog of the Year 2008…

Posted 26 February 2009

It’s that time of year when the air is filled with the sounds and smells of clipping, cutting, hairspray, tension and other unmentionables. That goes for both the dogs and their owners who preen and prune themselves equally for their big show day of the year. Competition is intense, dog envy is abound.

This is the third year I’ve been assigned this job. Maybe because the picture desk knows I’m allergic to dogs…maybe because deep down I actually enjoy them and they can be quite good fun and picture rich…Release the hounds….!!

Justin a Lhasa Apso (3) takes his view on the World. (JEP)

Delphi the English Spaniel getting its toe hair cut.

Delphi the English Spaniel getting her toe hair cut. Detail is everything.

Onyx (8) a Pekingese is fluffed up by Pat Dale. (JEP)

Final preparations for the Toy Poodle. (JEP)

Oliver an English Spaniel having his tail hair cut straight by Lynn Ozane. (JEP)

Oliver an English Spaniel having his tail hair cut perfectly straight by Lynn Ozane. (JEP)

Onyx (8) a Pekingese rests inbetween showing.

Monkey the Whippet stands on the shoulders of Rachel le Masurier to check out the competition. (JEP)

Bulldog Shiloh in wings before performing. (JEP)

Shiloh the Bulldog psyches himself up in wings before performing. (JEP)

A wire haired Dachshund is judged by Mrs Cartledge with owner Lisa Goodall. (JEP)

Marie-Claire Hannigan showing an Afghan Hound.

First Week back…

Posted 20 February 2009

My first week back at the Jersey Evening Post and straight into a World Class boxing match. As with working on most regional newspapers, the variety of jobs your assigned in any one day always makes it challenging. One minute your doing sport, then a feature picture story then everything else from business portraits to news. I’m still ploughing through editing my work from Mongolia and India so this post will be short on words. The hope is to expand on how and why I took a particular picture but when short of time I’ll just let the pictures do the talking themselves..which is the general idea of a press photography anyway..!!

Boxing at the Hotel de France, Jersey. IBF Light Heavyweight World Title Eliminator. Clinton Woods (Blue shorts) from Sheffield v Elvir Muriqi (Red Shorts) from Kosovo. (JEP)

Boxing at the Hotel de France, Jersey. IBF Light Heavyweight World Title Eliminator. Clinton Woods (Blue shorts) from Sheffield was fighting to regain the right to fight for another title. His opponent Elvir Muriqi from Kosovo put up an impressive 12 round contest. (JEP)

Woods and Muriqi slug it out in the fifth round. (JEP)

Boxing at the Hotel de France, Jersey. IBF Light Heavyweight World Title Eliminator. Clinton Woods (Blue shorts) from Sheffield v Elvir Muriqi (Red Shorts) from Kosovo. (JEP)

After 12 rounds Clinton Woods celebrates winning on points whilst a dejected Elvir Muriqi looks on. (JEP)

Peter Lucas Investment Strategist with RBC Wealth Management. (JEP)

Penny Henderson a chiropractor from Active Chiropractic Clinic who won a Patient Partnership Quality Award. (JEP)

Chris Searson MD of Capita Fiduciary Group. (JEP)

Aimee Ollivier (21) now a qualified staff nurse but finding it difficult to get a job at the hospital. (JEP)