Lake Windermere Fashion Story

I would never have imagined when I first decided to get my photography business up and running, that one of my first paid jobs would see me with such a big team, up in the Lake District, shooting a fashion story, and riding aboard a luxury powerboat but thats what's gone and happened.

The shoot was to promote the new Harris Tweed Handbags, and as such our brief was to create a number of different scenarios, which would make up the day-in-the-life of a beautiful woman, and show the versatility/diversity of the bags.

It was a long day of shooting, as we had to try to cover around 12 different scenarios.  However, we had the best weather imaginable, our first blast of summer!

The story was shot around Storrs Hall, a beautiful country hotel with stunning surroundings, on the edge of Lake Windermere.  Now this would have been pretty impressive alone, with the history and the views and the possible different locations.  But everybody's highlight of the day was to come in the afternoon, when we went to shoot aboard a powerboat.

Now I had a feeling this thing was going to be nice, but when we arrived, it was liking rolling up in St. Tropez, this boat was huge and it got everybody obviously excited, thinking, 'Now this is why I got into this business'.  Needless to say, a fun day was had by all... Exhausting, but fun nonetheless.

Now bring on more!!!

The team photo, aboard the luxury powerboat.

From left: Me, Jim (The Client), Jenny (My Assistant), Andrea (Hair & Make-Up), Martina (Model) and Tom (Model for the day!)