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Hard to believe I haven’t written in here for so long. July was a busy month though, and a beautiful one too. I wish August could be just as sunny as before and we’d have a perfect summer.

A few things I have been doing recently or forgot to show here, I’ll throw a few images on this page:

Elvis Costello at Hyde Park

Gaslight Anthem at the Hard Rock Calling VIP

The Hives at Hard Rock Calling 2010

A photoshoot with up and coming artist and future rock star Serina Mucci.

Serina Mucci Promo Photos

A fashion shoot in Derby I haven’t posted any image from yet.

Style Couture shoot with Katharina Bober

Style Couture fashion photoshoot - Katharina Bober

Style Couture fashion photoshoot - Katharina Bober

Also a brand new music video with has got a lot of fantastic feedback already. The Emancipation is the name of the track from Tricil chosen for our second music video with Burning Head, starring the talented Miss Maleficent Martini and we can now showcase it as it is broadcast to promote Enter Calico, the iPad application project produced by the label Clear Notice. The video has been entered into the Vimeo Festival + Award judged by the likes of David Lynch, Roman Coppola or Nicolas Schmerkin. You can also help by nominating it, just copy the video link http://vimeo.com/13230643 into the nominating page there. It has been entered to the UK Music Video Award 2010 as well.

Tricil – The Emancipation from BURNING HEAD on Vimeo.

Oh and last, like most photographers I always know all my publications when I receive my monthly statement, in my case from Getty, and at that time all the papers and magazine concerned are far form the newsagent so it’s always nice to hear from a friend who saw an image in a broad paper like yesterday’s Guardian with my shot of Lady Gaga, below.

My Lady Gaga in yesterday's Guardian

Another great weekend of intense photography backstage at Hard Rock Calling in sunny Hyde Park in good company with the LD, Coyne and Hard Rock teams as well as all the artists we met from the Hives to Elvis Costello to Corinne Bailey Rae, Melissa Etheridge, Joshua Radin, Gaslight Anthem and many more. Hopefully I’ll soon find a minute to post a few words and photos about this and the other projects I have been working on during this very busy month!

Hard Rock Calling 2010 Day 3 - the crowd just before Stevie Wonder's performance 26 June 2010

I had a look at how my site looks on IE today. Well it’s not brilliant! I suppose a professional webdesigner would have done some cross-browser test before throwing the site on-air but it looked so nice on Firefox, I’ve just been a bit idealistic thinking that browser coders are all following the same standard hey. So for those who see strange things happening on their own browser please give me a shout so I make sure it will soon look great to everyone.

I’m also trying to find a nice way to allow the images to be seen at their best – which is a 24×36 ratio, same format as SLR images. I just added a link at the bottom of the page to resize to the best ratio but again it seems only Firefox is happy to comply . Any suggestion welcome!

Ok I shall end my geeky post here. Not sure where I’ll carry my lenses tonight if anywhere, I heard Innercity Pirates play at Cargo and I was a big fan of them when they used to be still called My Red Cell, it is a mystery to me that they didn’t make it big considering the awesome album they had then. Oh and stay tuned this weekend for some Depeche Mode goodness which I shall post on the night after their O2 Arena show .

Now off to take some shots of a very very clever invention that will make a revolution for anyone who are tired of traveling with their oversized UK plugs, more on this very soon!