About the Photographer

Simon Weir on location in the Lake District  
  This Image © Petrina Hughes 		The son of two very keen amateur photographers, I took my first photographs at the age of 4 on a Kodak rangefinder camera. My photography really took off when for my seventh birthday I was given a Zenit SLR and I never looked back!

As a child, family holidays revolved around taking photographs - my Father took slides and my Mother colour prints so, determined to be different, I took Black and White - in hindsight the best grounding a beginner could have.  I soon learnt how to develop and print my own work and at the age of 17 I had my first exhibition in Oxford of 20 prints of Tuscany.

I now split my time between my job as a classical record producer (my other childhood love was music and I run a well established and successful music production company) and my photographic work.  Having attained the LRPS in November 2004 I am currently preparing a portfolio for submission to an ARPS panel,  based on a series of images shot in Siena during the Palio horse race.  A selection of these featured in the Nikon Owner Magazine in January 2006.  Other published work ranges from the covers of "Clarinet & Saxophone" & "RailPro Magazine" with regular images in various specialist photographic publications including "Black & White Photography".

I also have a wide selection of stock images on the Alamy website ranging from Pumpkins to Pianos, Acupuncture to Audio Equipment, and London park benches to Lake District sheep - an eclectic mix as is often the way with stock photography!  I regularly undertake stock shoots on a release-exchange basis where I shoot for free, the subject gets a full set of high resolution images and the rights to use them for any purpose and I get full model and property release to use the images for stock.  Do contact me if you think this might be of interest.

With a Nikon D2X 12 Mega Pixel DSLR, and lenses ranging from 12mm to 450mm, a hi-resolution film scanner and A3 pigment ink printer, and considerable experience with Photoshop CS2, I am equipped for most eventualities and happy to tackle any subject.  

I am always happy to consider commissions of any type so do get in touch.