Portrait Shoots on Dartmoor
I'm not going to give you a ton of spiel about how Dartmoor is really so very ancient and powerful and truly transformative, anybody who's ever been there will already know that. If you didn't, you wouldn't be here in the first place.
I'm a walker foremost and a photographer when the mood suits me, I know the moor well enough to get us to some genuinely interesting spots without either of us breaking a leg or falling in a bog (though no guarantees on the second one), and I absolutely know how to make photographs that don't look like they were taken by someone who spent about ten minutes flicking through Pinterest and Instagram beforehand.
My sessions suit people who have a clear sense of who they are and what they want their photographs to reflect, not some over-lit studio renditions with masses of filters. Artists, writers, healers, poets, performers, people who work in and love the outdoors, people who live life a wee bit differently.
If you're often described as an "awkward subject", challenge accepted.
My sessions are completely bespoke. We talk (at length if needed) or in short spurts whenever inspiration greets you. You let me know what you'd like from your photographs, and what you'd like to portray, and I'll let you know whether I can deliver.
I shoot mostly with old adapted lenses with all their beautiful flaws. They do things that modern glass just isn't capable of, adding a softness in the edges or a quality to the light that makes the landscape and subject feel like they belong together. Whether this appeals to you aesthetically or philosophically, it definitely tends to produce portraits that look like no one else's.
