MonkeyTwizzle

2012

Billy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:58:50 +0000

Another slack period due to ongoing plumbing/building & xmas/new-year hangovers etc. But a few shoots have happened despite all that the weather & festive kidney failure could throw at us ;-) And the lovely people of Obscure Couture lent us swish clothes too – which always adds a bit of glamour, despite the below-zero temperatures! Lots of shoots planned in February though – so looking forward to the rest of the year being a bit more steady & productive than 2011 turned out to be!

Another little update

Billy — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:30:33 +0000

Yes, lazy again – another multi-shoot update. I’ve been slacking off of late though (and had plumbing problems which affected my time free to shoot) (and which isn’t a euphemism). So! A few pictures to show I have actually been doing the odd thing here and there.

Recentish work

Billy — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:57:10 +0000

Yes, I’m rubbish at updating my site – I know ;-) So yet another cumulative update :-) I will do a proper update one of these days…..

Polaroid

Billy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:39:07 +0000

I remember my parents having a Polaroid instant camera when I was a kid – and I remember the magic of taking a picture and seeing it appear before your very eyes! I know, I know – but it was the 70′s! It was either that or watch ‘The Good Old Days’ on the telly ;-) When I recently picked up a Polaroid camera of my own and some film from The Impossible Project I was a bit excited ;-)

I’m also a huge admirer of David Sams and his Polaroid work so I was looking forward to seeing how badly I could do in comparison ;-) Luckily for me, the film is really erratic and gives strange unpredictable results – so pretty much perfect really ;-) I hope they never get it ‘right’ ;-)

Anyway – I’ve only done a few shots with it, but a few of the first ones are below. It’s fun – even if it’s only me that likes the outcomes ;-)

Obscure Couture

Billy — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:39:06 +0000

The delightful Obscure Couture are up for a fashion award in June at the Scottish Fashion Awards! Jenn & Lyndsay are two of the most lovely people you could ever hope to meet – creative, talented, vibrant, exciting – and of course beautiful, graceful and elegant. Mostly ;-). I’ve been lucky enough to work with them a few times and especially go on a couple of photographic adventures with Lyndsay to scout locations for shoots while we jigged along to PJ Harvey on the stereo and ate “oh so tasty” motorway service-station food ;-) Happy days :-)

It’s always so wonderful to see people you know do so well – and especially when you’ve seen the hours and hours of work they’ve put in. So double-triple-quadruple good luck! With jam on top! :-)

Ahem – updates

Billy — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:32:52 +0000

Yes, I am officially the worst person in the world at keeping my own site up to date. I suck, what can I say ;-) So, yes, another cumulative update coming up ;-)

I’ve again been really lucky to work with some amazing people – lots of shoots with Sou de Sade, Miz Minx & Bex especially :-) And I finally managed to catch up with the very wonderful Chrissie Red at last! Yay :-)

Anyway – have some pictures ;-)

Starry Night

Billy — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:52:16 +0000

I’ve had an image burning away in my head for the past two years or so. A really simple image. I mean – really simple. But as it turned out it’s been really hard to organise!

But at last! I have been saved by the ever-wonderful Sooz! She took time out to come over on a glorious summers day when she could have been doing far more fun things and did the photo for me. For which I owe her a great debt.

However, being very excited at getting to cast the image out at last – I took quite a few versions and can’t really decide which one is ‘the one’. But it’s possibly this. But I may change my mind ;-) And I realise I’m probably the one person in the world who would find it interesting ;-) But I don’t care ;-)

Starry Night

Another cumulative update

Billy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:51:03 +0000

Well, I’m out-doing myself this year. Managed about one update to the website. Go me! ;-) So I’ve put together a fairly random selection of images from the past little while. I think they’re all 2010 but I might be wrong as I’m a bit tired and can’t quite remember.

Well, for ‘tired’ maybe read ‘tipsy’ ;-)

Anyway – as always I owe a huge debt to all the wonderful people I’ve been lucky enough to work with. I hope, optimistically, to get back into the swing of updating the site as I go along. You never know – I might actually manage it…. ;-)

A special thanks has to go to Bebe Rascal and Lola Valentine who came on holiday to the Isle of Arran with me and made it a really wonderful week of photo’s and adventures! And an extra-special thanks goes to Sou de Sade who has been working on a super-secret project with me for what seems like years ;-) The pictures from it are all still under wraps – but hopefully it will all be revealed soon! :-) Thank you Sou – you’re a star :-)

The lovely Gemma Elise Gerber

Billy — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:24:27 +0000

I finally managed to get to work with the lovely Gemma Elise Gerber last week.� We’d spoken a few times last year about shoots but I never managed to organise anything as I’m inept ;-)� Turns out she stays just round the corner from me too – so it should have been easy really!

Anyway – it was really lovely to finally meet her and get to work with her.� She’s a really creative & fun person and so easy to work with :-) Hopefully we’ll come up with some other stuff soon! :-)

End-of-year Update…

Billy — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:46:23 +0000

Well, I’ve managed to out-do myself in terms of not updating my website this year. Go me… So I’ve made a slideshow thing which has lots of shots from the shoots I’ve done this year that I didn’t get round to posting on here. �I’ve probably missed some too – but I’ve completely lost track of what I’ve done in 2009. �Old age is a terrible thing… ;-)

I’d really like to thank all the fabulous people I’ve worked with this year. �I won’t list everyone as I’ll no doubt forget to include someone and then feel terrible about it ;-) �But you’re all wonderful – mwah! ;-)

Anyway – there’s a posh slideshow thing with about 100 pictures in it which you can see by clicking here! :-)