John Simpson

Back in the Seventies I did commercial photography in my home city of Manchester. Marketing Communications and Corporate Relations then seduced me away for 35 years (It was better money!).

So when retirement came along I figured that I would need a hobby and I decided to try to become a photographer again .... but this time only for the pure enjoyment. And now in Gloucestershire.

Most of my photography involves people. Many of the images will attempt to elicit an emotion. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. If you stroll through the genrés you’ll get a feel for what I like to shoot. And you'll find the majority of my individual ideas in the Project Galleries. Hope that you enjoy.

All Banged Up

Documentary

HM Prison Gloucester was a 224-year-old Category B men’s prison located in the Gloucester Docks area. Opened later as a tourist ‘attraction’ our shoot was organised by Gavin Hoey and Olympus UK …… on a deathly cold January day. Grim!...

Le Canal Du Midi

Documentary

Classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and considered one of the major 17th century works, the Canal du Midi, gives a 240km link from Garonne to the Mediterranean and passing through the Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrenees regions....

Loving Languedoc

Documentary, Location

Languedoc today covers just a small part of the much larger area of France that was known in the Middle Ages as the Pays de Langue d’Oc. The “Langues d’Oc” was a name given to a whole family of French dialects spoken in the southern...

Zara Watson

Fashion/Nude (NSFW), Location

Zara, in her own words ….. “I feel like the lens is my stage where I perform, and I love it! I love all styles of modelling, serious, cool, strong, sexy, with attitude, fun, happy, commercial, quirky, creative, feminine, soft”. Top drawer. Ultimate Pro. What...

Provence

Documentary

Oh, all those blockbuster A-list towns – Arles, Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Nice – they all live up to their hype and welcome the tourist hordes. But to get a taste of traditional Provencal life at a slower pace, be sure to visit some of the many small...

Stroud Raft Race

Documentary

One of those daft things that the English like to do. Once a year. The Challenge …. to design and build a raft that can take up to 6 team members along the 1.2km stretch of the Thames and Severn Canal starting from The...

Jessica

Fashion, Studio

Jessica is a professional Fashion, Hair and Beauty model based in Cheshire. She’s an artist and designer as well as a model and well equipped when it comes to self styling and she also makes a few of her own fashion garments for shoots....

Carla Monaco

Fashion/Nude (NSFW), Location, Studio

A young woman who I've photographed several times now and who, I believe, represents everything that is professional about studio work and modelling. And such an absolute pleasure to work with. ...

Aviation Apocalypse

Documentary, Location

Two models, loads of old aircraft and it poured down. Making the most of a difficult shoot at the Gatwick Aviation Museum with Gavin Hoey, Tommy Reynolds, models Kerry Allingham and Roger Bruce …. and a very large smoke machine. The museum has a...

Prescott Hill Climb

Documentary, Location

Every year there are six events held at Prescott, two of them rounds of the British Hillclimb Championship, the VSCC meeting and three ‘club’ events. On my first outing I learned two things: Photographing fast moving cars in this sport is pretty tricky and...

Film Noir … In Malmsbury

Uncategorized

Not a place generally associated with Film Noir. But when Artemis Fauna takes to the streets after dark with a storyboard you know that there'll be some good come from it. Apart from the dead body, that is. Shot entirely on my Nikon D810...

A (very short) Winter’s Tale

Uncategorized

So in 2018 we had the ‘Beast from the East’ but no snow. This year in 2019 we had the ‘Wimper from the West’ and were snowed in for a few days. So this was a quick walk to the top of our lane...