Tim Campbell & Divine Chocolate – 2 shoots, 2 days, 4 bars of chocolate…
Getting back from New Zealand was a bit of a shock to the system. It was summer there so I’d got very accustomed to wearing shorts and flip-flops. In London and the UK as a whole it had been sub-arctic with heavy snow. So although the snow had gone it was still damned cold. Also – when you’ve been away for such a long time you forget what it was that you were doing before you went – couple that with the Christmas period as well and it makes it even harder.
So it was good to get my teeth stuck into some shoots and remind me who i was…or should that be am? Shoot 1 was on a grim, grey, wet and cold London afternoon – remember my head was still driving a camper van around NZ – and i headed over to Bermondsey to meet Tim Campbell. Tim is an extremely inspirational chap who rose to fame through via the London Underground network by applying for and subsequently winning the first series of The Apprentice with Alan Sugar. He now runs the Bright Ideas Trust to help people get their entrepreneurial ideas off the ground. He was to be giving a talk to a group of school kids who were setting up their own small business as a school project and whose profits would all be given to Great Ormond Street Hospital. the brief was to shoot him and the children engaging, capturing their eyes sparkle as he shared his knowledge with them and to get some good shots of him…
Tim Campbell
The children loved him as you might expect and after they’d all left i got some time alone with him to get some headshots, but i must confess that this candid shot of him is by far my favourite:
Tim Campbell
Move on a few days and I was in the offices of Divine Chocolate near Tower Bridge. This time a minister visit to a job share. The Minister for the Office of the Third Sector was learning how to be the MD of a chocolate company for a day and getting involved in a chocolate tasting and variosu meetings. Clearly the chocolate tasting was a good way to start the day as i think we can all agree from this picture!
Angela Smith MP in tasting heaven..
Luckily for me I benefitted from the tasting too by leaving with a few lovely bars of the chocolate… well worth getting your hands on some and why not take a look at what you can get right here….