1. image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. Here’s one of my latest personal shots it’s a scene depicting Idlewild airport in 1961, now known as JFK. The idea came about after I found a folder with the Pan AM ticket in it whilst helping to clear my wife’s grandma’s house last year, after she had sadly passed away. Caroline’s Grandfather had taken a business trip to the states in 1961 and had kept everything from the trip, from the letters to and from the travel agent, to the match books and drinks stirrers from all the bars and hotels he visited. I love the fact that the trip was such a rare and exciting event that he kept all the momentos from the trip. I even found a ticket from a visit to the empire states building (see if you can spot it in the shot) it’s a stark contrast to the disposable and online way we live our lives now.

    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    Here’s one of my latest personal shots it’s a scene depicting Idlewild airport in 1961, now known as JFK.
    The idea came about after I found a folder with the Pan AM ticket in it whilst helping to clear my wife’s grandma’s house last year, after she had sadly passed away.
    Caroline’s Grandfather had taken a business trip to the states in 1961 and had kept everything from the trip, from the letters to and from the travel agent, to the match books and drinks stirrers from all the bars and hotels he visited.
    I love the fact that the trip was such a rare and exciting event that he kept all the momentos from the trip. I even found a ticket from a visit to the empire states building (see if you can spot it in the shot) it’s a stark contrast to the disposable and online way we live our lives now.

  2. image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. Last month I was commissioned my Irving & co to shoot this year’s Carluccio’s Easter poster campaign. The poster design was great, very simple and they’d designed fantastic type to go with it. It was a dream job as photographer, and when the product arrived I was even more pleased! The Carluccio’s eggs are beautiful objects. They were lovely to shoot. We had a great day coming up with different ways to show off the eggs. In the end we decided to see what they would like cracked – showing off the dark chocolate inside, looked even more delicious! It did take a while to get them to break in the right way though. In the end I perfected a technique that works perfectly every time ( with a little help from a hammer! ) I also managed to film a short animation for them at the same time, using the mini chocolate eggs – which you can watch below. I hope everyone has a great Easter and, I hope you are lucky enough to receive a Carluccio’s Easter treat! image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. Music : J’y Suis Jamais Allé by Yann Tiersen Available on itunes here

    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    Last month I was commissioned my Irving & co to shoot this year’s Carluccio’s Easter poster campaign.

    The poster design was great, very simple and they’d designed fantastic type to go with it. It was a dream job as photographer, and when the product arrived I was even more pleased!

    The Carluccio’s eggs are beautiful objects. They were lovely to shoot. We had a great day coming up with different ways to show off the eggs. In the end we decided to see what they would like cracked – showing off the dark chocolate inside, looked even more delicious! It did take a while to get them to break in the right way though. In the end I perfected a technique that works perfectly every time ( with a little help from a hammer! )

    I also managed to film a short animation for them at the same time, using the mini chocolate eggs – which you can watch below.

    I hope everyone has a great Easter and, I hope you are lucky enough to receive a Carluccio’s Easter treat!

    Easter carluccios 2

    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.


    Music : J’y Suis Jamais Allé by Yann Tiersen
    Available on itunes here

  3. image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. Last friday my latest work hit the news stands in the form of an advertising wrap on the Sport magazine for the Racing Post. I was commissioned by the talented folks at Sell Sell. They wanted to make an image containing all the essentials one would need at the races, including all the different ways to get info from the Racing Post. It was a fun day the lovely Katie Cordell sourced some fantastic props to make up our gents outfit it was all very fancy, it was like a high end Bond Street store in the studio for the day! I even made my self useful by finding the hip flask we used in the shot while I was away in Salzburg for a long weekend it was one of the few things not to have a Mozart on it!

    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

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    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    Last friday my latest work hit the news stands in the form of an advertising wrap on the Sport magazine for the Racing Post.
    I was commissioned by the talented folks at Sell Sell. They wanted to make an image containing all the essentials one would need at the races, including all the different ways to get info from the Racing Post.
    It was a fun day the lovely Katie Cordell sourced some fantastic props to make up our gents outfit it was all very fancy, it was like a high end Bond Street store in the studio for the day!
    I even made my self useful by finding the hip flask we used in the shot while I was away in Salzburg for a long weekend it was one of the few things not to have a Mozart on it!

  4. image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. Here’s my recent valentines inspired test. I found these hearts in my local art shop and couldn’t resist getting them, a bit of red spray paint later and voila! This lady has been stealing men’s hearts for years who’s next?……

    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    Here’s my recent valentines inspired test.
    I found these hearts in my local art shop and couldn’t resist getting them, a bit of red spray paint later and voila!

    This lady has been stealing men’s hearts for years who’s next?……

    photo-2

  5. Thanks to all those that took part in my christmas sock craft pack, apologies for the late arrival of the results, it has been a busy January! There were some great sock characters created and in the end I couldn’t chose just one favourite so I’ve decide to award a bottle of bubbles to two creations. The winners are Marion Thibaudot from BBH and Alex Bamford from RKCR/Y&R. Both of them put a smile on my face so congratulations to you both! Here are the two winning entires Below is the shot that started it all. image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    Thanks to all those that took part in my christmas sock craft pack, apologies for the late arrival of the results, it has been a busy January!
    There were some great sock characters created and in the end I couldn’t chose just one favourite so I’ve decide to award a bottle of bubbles to two creations.
    The winners are Marion Thibaudot from BBH and Alex Bamford from RKCR/Y&R. Both of them put a smile on my face so congratulations to you both!
    Here are the two winning entires
    Marion

    Alex

    Below is the shot that started it all.

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    image © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

  6. All images © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved. Happy New year! Thanks to all of you that contributed to this years adventgram and followed the project. It was great seeing all the different ways people interpreted the project. I look forward to doing it again at the end of this year. Hope you all had a great festive break here’s to a great 2013 All images © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    All images © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

    Happy New year!

    Thanks to all of you that contributed to this years adventgram and followed the project.
    It was great seeing all the different ways people interpreted the project.
    I look forward to doing it again at the end of this year.

    Hope you all had a great festive break here’s to a great 2013

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    All images © David Sykes 2013 All rights reserved.

  7. Thanks to all of you that followed & took part in my #adventgram project it’s been a lot of fun seeing all the numbers you found. Here is my final 25.

    Thanks to all of you that followed & took part in my #adventgram project it’s been a lot of fun seeing all the numbers you found. Here is my final 25.

  8. Happy new year here’s to a great 2013!

    Happy new year here’s to a great 2013!

  9. #adventgram HAPPY CHRISTMAS.

    #adventgram HAPPY CHRISTMAS.

  10. #adventgram Happy Christmas everyone.

    #adventgram Happy Christmas everyone.