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How safe are your corporate images? As you know, there will be a general election in the UK this year. While the government hasn’t yet set the date, the odds are shortening on a November ballot. The UK isn’t alone in holding a general election in 2024. There will also be important and potentially divisive...

Selected Photographs by Piranha on Leica Gallery The photographs shown here have been selected to feature on Leica’s website. The pictures were taken in a variety of locations including London and Oxford. It is a great honour to have an image selected by the Leica team for one of their categories and a major compliment...

A New Leica Lens – The 35mm Summilux F1.4 ‘You cant have too many Leica lenses Santa’ – I explained, he just groaned and said ‘can you just get off my knee, you are waaay to heavy’ – I was thrown out of the grotto. Persistence pays off however as he delivered down the chimney...

A Leica in the Boardroom Persona Grata with Leica Of late, a strange thing has been happening when shooting CEOs and other board directors at corporate photo-shoots. I have suddenly become a person of interest. I’ve been working for well over 20 years as a professional photographer. Normally on a CEO shoot, the best I...

The incredible Leica Noctilux lens OK this post is about an insane lens, insane in more ways than just its huge cost of nearly £8K. This is a lot of money for small amounts of glass and brass, so how can the Leica Noctilux lens possibly justify the hefty price tag? Perhaps its neutron star...

Street Photography and New Leica M240 An Old(ish) Dog Learns New Tricks As a busy corporate photographer who works nearly every day there is precious little time to swap notes with other professional photographers if I want to extend my skills. But I always want to learn new tricks and cover new ground. Like most...

New Sony Camera – the A7II Mirrorless SLR Times change, and technologies improve at an exponential rate, the latest example of this in the photographic world is the Sony A7II mirrorless SLR. Sporting the latest 24megapixel sensor and 5 axis stabilisation on the new Sony/Zeiss lenses.  There is great news too if, like me, you...

Professional Photographic Lighting – Light Work can be Heavy Going Lighting for professional London photographer If using natural light was the answer for a professional photographer, you wouldn’t find me lugging around 30 kilogrammes of off camera flash lighting equipment on the London Underground travelling to photo-shoots. As a trick of the trade, the truth...

Roaring back in 2022 – Piranha Photography’s busiest and best year After all the disruption caused by Covid and lockdowns, 2022 was probably our busiest and best year ever. What follows are the facts and figures that bring to life Piranha‘s story of last year. But before that, we want to thank each and every...

Portrait photography at Clowns International Church Service in London

Celebrity Party Photography in London A London party photographing celebrities. This party was held by a company which specialises in providing speakers for conferences as presenters, awards hosts, after dinner speakers and corporate events. It was interesting to play ‘spot the celebrity’ as sometimes I haven’t seen a certain someone for a while, or need...

Piranha Photography – What’s in store for 2022? Happy New Year and here’s to 2022. In the words of John Lennon, ‘Let’s hope it’s a good one.’ For us, the last four months of 2021 was our busiest ever after almost 30 years in business. Before the new Covid restrictions came in at the tail...