New portrait of BBC Gardening expert Will Giles in Norwich

A few more photographs of the very awesome Will Giles, this time a couple of portrait photographs of him for an American magazine and some new editorial. Always a pleasure photographing WIll in his wonderful Exotic Garden, you can always be assured of a constant stream of tea and laughter!

Portrait: Will Giles – Botanical Expert at the Exotic Garden Co. Norwich

Will Giles - The Exotic Garden Company - Norwich

I finally managed to get Will Giles (of the fabulous Exotic Garden in Norwich) to sit still for a few minutes so I could take a quick portrait photograph of him. I’ve been wanting to photograph Will for a while now, so it’s awesome we finally made it happen. He has an incredible home, [...]

Video: New adventures with Video | Canon 5DMK2

This week has been a steep learning curve, finally had some time to jump straight into 1080p HD video with my Canon 5DMK2 and other kit. Wow, a lot to learn, and then started up Final Cut Pro…. things then got a whole lot more complicated within seconds..
I took the logical step of spending a [...]

First test HD 1080p footage from the Canon 5D MK2

Started testing the Canon 5Dmk2 1080p HD video capability today & getting to grips with the camera, Final Cut Pro, MpegStreamer and everything else that goes along with it. I’m not claiming to know anything about video production, filming etc just yet.. but hopefully over the next year or so inbetween doing normal stills photography, [...]

RidleyandGiles.com : Launching new stock photography website

I have been taking stock photography for the last few years, and have always just had it represented by Alamy Ltd, the largest stock photography agency in the world and have had very good results so far. Over the last year, I have spent quite a lot of time photographing with a good friend, Will [...]

Photography for Radio Norfolk at the Exotic Garden

Just a quick post, a few weeks ago I took a few photographs for local radio station Radio Norfolk, I supplied them a number of photo’s for the Radio Norfolk feature that was taking place in Will Giles’s Exotic Garden on the 15th of July by Karen Buchanan .
It was a hippy themed event, at [...]