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Sunday, November 5th, 2006This is one of my favourite images from the Best of Newbury exhibition, mainly because it took me the best part of a year to persuade my local plumber Keith Durham to do it! I’m not sure you can perfectly see in a 150 pixel square image that Keith’s sitting on the throne, enjoying his […]
Nigel Morgan
Saturday, November 4th, 2006We must extend thanks to Nigel Morgan for his kind words and support upon the launch of our Best of Newbury exhibition. Nigel is a journalist and founder of Morgan PR. He specialises in public relations, photography, web design, search engine optimisation, providing copy for blogs and and and. His portrait is shown to the […]
Best of Newbury preview night
Friday, November 3rd, 2006Last night was launch night for the Best of Newbury exhibition. Attended by a majority of the portrait sitters plus their families and opened by Lord Carnarvon, a percentage of the proceeds from exhibition portrait sales will go to the Thames Valley Air Ambulance Trust. The exhibition is at the Corn Exchange in Newbury until […]
Why the feathers though?
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006This is Andy Watts, a printer and paper merchant in Newbury. He features in our Best of Newbury exhibition as, well, himself. This is pretty much his character. We wanted a shot that showed what he did, but of course, also his personna. He’s the joker at the company Appleprint and takes any opportunity to […]
I’m the firestarter…
Thursday, October 5th, 2006Funny what you learn about people when they turn up to sit for a portrait. Marketing company MD, Bill Hicks turned out to have quite a few unrelated skills. Seems he learned a few circus skills some years back, including juggling, escapology, and firebreathing! Blog and photo (c) Neale James, Breathe Pictures.
The King of portraits
Saturday, September 30th, 2006On Saturday 30th September we ran an open day for the Best of Newbury exhibition, whereby the good and great of the town could show up, no appointment necessary, and sit for their portrait. The exhibition opens first week in November at the Corn Exchange. It’s a market town in middle England, but this is […]
The many sides to Thomas Croxall-Ingram
Friday, August 11th, 2006Our shoot at Berkshire’s Highclere Castle last week to produce an official portrait of Lord and Lady Carnarvon had to be curtailed before we got a chance to photograph the Earl’s Private Secretary, Thomas Croxall-Ingram. It had been the plan to capture his portrait too, but another busy day at the castle meant we had […]
Body painting at Breathe
Tuesday, August 8th, 2006Creatively speaking, this has been one of the most incredibly rewarding days. Berkshire body and face painter Emma Cammack joined us in the studio for what felt like a ‘paint-a-thon.’ There are three pictures to demonstrate the day’s work. The concept and brief was to produce a series of pictures to melt our models into […]
Richard Benyon’s exhibition portrait
Monday, August 7th, 2006MP for Newbury, Richard Benyon, sat for our Best of Newbury portrait exhibition this morning. Whatever your political persuassion, the point of this exhibition is to portray those who work, live or contribute to life in West Berkshire. Richard is undoubtedly part of life in the town. In Parliament, he is one of fourteen MPs […]
Lord and Lady Carnarvon
Friday, August 4th, 2006The lastest addition to our growing portfolio of portraits for the forthcoming Best of Newbury exhibition took a stately direction yesterday when we photographed the 8th Earl and Countess of Carnarvon at their home. Highclere Castle, makes for a stunning backdrop, although we ventured inside to utilise the sumptuous library for Lord and Lady Carnarvon’s portrait. There are nearly 6,000 historically important […]
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