Summer's on it's way...
Shooting for Cloudy Bay wines, so Dave gets a shot of a cloud in a glass of wine. I hope that they appreciated this shot as much as I did!
"I'll send through a brief, but basically we need you to shoot Cornwall looking beautiful, a fishing trip, foraging in the hedgerows, and the hotel and it's Michelin starred chef. I hope that's alright?"
Er, yeah, no problem! Cloudy Bay Wines run popular foraging weekends from their vineyards in the Marlborough region of New Zealand's South Island and were setting up a series of similar weekends here in the UK based in Cornwall for Summer 2012. The idea was for guests to spend the morning out on a local fishing boat, casting lines and pulling up lobster pots, before heading off with the Wild Food School just up the road to learn about all of the edible loveliness that grows in our fields, hedgerows and woodlands. They then took all of their ingredients back to their hotel, the lovely boutique Driftwood Hotel on the beautiful Roseland Peninsula on the south coast, where Michelin starred chef Chris Eden and his team would prepare it into an incredible meal and the sommelier would match their meal to the Cloudy Bay range of wines.
Aboard the Madeline Rose, coming back intoSt Mawes harbour.
Tight lines...
A successful haul of lovely looking lobster!
It was pretty much an ideal brief from a commercial client, shooting subject areas that I know and enjoy in my own back yard. I roped in a friend, photographer David Williams, to help me out and last June we spent a really fun day from dawn through to dusk on the Roseland Peninsula, charging around with a car full of camera cases and lights and taking it in turns both behind and in front of the camera.
Hedgerow bounty!
Me picking elderflowers for Dave's camera.
The images were used for various press UK releases and to illustrate articles in several magazines and online over the summer and autumn which meant that I've had to sit on them for a while. But it's starting to hint at Spring around these parts and I'm getting excited for some outdoors sunshine time doing a lot of the things that are in these photos. Namely, enjoying Cornwall.
The Driftwood dovecot, and the choices of the compass.
Sous Chef and saffron
Head Chef, the Michelin starred Chris Eden who paused for approximately 30 seconds for me to shoot his portrait.
The countryside of Cornwall's Roseland Peninsula.
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