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Crabtree of Gateshead Product Photography

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Crabtree of Gateshead is one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of quality metal decorating presses and coating machines. They have an impressive factory on the Team Valley that produces incredibly sophisticated machines that apply the decorative coating to metal surfaces.

The photography brief was to show the breadth of their machine client base and the type of coatings that can be applied to various shapes with professional product photographs. The images are to be used for a future exhibition and for display around the North East premises. This was an extremely colourful and enjoyable photo shoot, with many of their client’s recognisable brands that we see in our kitchen cupboards. I was so pleased to be chosen as their product photographer and i shall look forward to more work with them in the future!

To find out more about their work please visit http://www.crabpress.co.uk and look below to see my studio product shots.

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Komatsu UK is 25 Years Old!

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So 25 years ago in 1987 Prince Charles opened Komatsu UK in Birtley. Staff celebrated in style with the whole work force in excess of of 400, the BBC TV, Tyne Tees TV, R&B Group (and me!) all in one room!

After press interviews outside in the rain there was a lunch and a factory tour for key figures. Later there were speakers to all who work at Komatsu UK, by Mick Henry, The Leader of Gateshead Council and Peter Howe, Komatsu UK MD and Chairman of Komatsu Europe. The workers looked really proud and very happy to work there which made it easy to capture the big moments and the smaller ones too!

Happy Birthday Komatsu UK!

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Komatsu Shots for Product Brochures

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A few months back I created a few sets of images for the various Komatsu machines that needed new photography. I was shooting on the Uk site in Birtley and on the agenda was a bulldozer, a dumper truck and a huge crawler excavator, so big it has a 6ft bucket!

I had a go driving each one after the shots were completed! Obviously. Digging a hole in the ground with an excavator, driving at a 90 degree angle to the ground on a muddy hill and transporting several tons of earth about in a truck is unbelievably exciting! Yep I am a machine nerd and an adrenaline junkie! (Don’t even get me started on how exciting I find the factory production lines… pics to come!)

komatsu D65 bulldozer photos

komatsu dumper trucks 400 & 300 models

komatsu pc700 crawler excavator pics

And just for fun, to get a feel of how big the PC700 is see how small I look in the bucket! These beautiful machines are BEASTS!!!!

me in komatsu d700 bucket!

Komatsu UK Staff Olympics 2012

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Komatsu recently held its 2012 Staff Olympics with the prize for the lucky winners of a trip to Japan! I love being on the factory floor and it was fascinating to watch them compete with their various assembly skills… here are some shots from the day… an interesting insight into how these amazing machines are created!

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