In January this year I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to do a series of portrait photo’s of Aardman’s legendary Nick Park at his home here in Bristol.

It was an absolute honour to be able to shoot Nick, especially when I’m not a pro photographer by any means, I just love it the medium and it was that enthusiasm that afford me this fantastic opportunity!

It was a real low-key affair - Just me and my D40 and one studio light, simple as that. I didn’t want to borrow an all singing-all dancing set-up as I’d just panic about the equipment rather than taking the photo, as after all, swanky kit won’t make me a better photographer!

I can’t show the whole set of photo’s because of copyright but this one here is one of my favourites. It was the first time I show RAW with intent of a lot of post-processing and that was a great learning curve too.

Overall it was a really exciting opportunity and I enjoyed it a lot, there’s going to be another session happening later in the year with us doing some outdoor shots so I’m really looking forward to that!

A big thank you to Nick, Angie & Aardman for giving me such a fantastic opportunity. I love my job!