Neill Watson creates high quality photography and writing on automotive subjects, plus architecture, interiors and buildings, aerial photography, aviation and mans passion for automobiles. His automotive feature stories cover driving some of the worlds most exciting cars and have been published across Europe and North America. He is the founder and editor of Car Photographer.net and Historic Racer blogs. Private clients value his driver coaching skills for bespoke tuition on track driving and techniques. He writes regularly here on all of the above, plus the tools of his trade and the fascinating people he is fortunate to meet.
Shane Lynch – Rock Star Racing Driver
“A couple of years ago, I was asked to create a Shane Lynch interview for one of the Japanese performance magazines. At the time, his big passion was drifting a Nissan Skyline in the British championship. He was also very much in demand for TV work, Boyzone appearances and other professional commitments, so our initial […]
Ten Essential Instagram Tips for Business
Ten ways I found to promote your business with photography on Instagram Whether your are an individual photographer wishing you had a huge audience or a brand looking enviously at the success of others, getting started on Instagram might seem like a mountain to climb. For me, I’m still on the learning curve, having been […]
Aerial Photo of Your House?
Can I take an aerial photo of your house? A very frequently asked question indeed. Although the majority of my work is for commercial clients and stock images, it’s very easy to get an aerial photo of your house. The photographs can be supplied as a large format print of any size ready for framing […]
Vintage Jetranger Trafficopter Video
Just wanted to share this vintage film from 1972 of the Montreal radio’s traffic reporting helicopter. The film presents a view of a day in the life of Montreal radio station’s traffic reporter, Len Rowcliffe. Sporting a particularly stylish pipe, he can be seen from the left hand seat reporting on the downtown traffic snarlups. […]
Fresh Paint, a New Ship and The North Sea
So, it’s winter 2007 and the ship we’re crossing the North Sea on isn’t a passenger ferry, with cinema, shops, screaming children and arguing spouses. It’s a quite new cargo ship, operated by DFDS Tor Line. Clean comfortable, given over mainly to trucks and containers and just a few cabins for trans continental drivers, it […]
“What’s Your Day Rate? ” and why we don’t have one…
“What’s Your Day rate…?” Is a question professional photographers are asked quite often. What is a more important question would really be, “Exactly how much is this going to cost me?” Which is actually a far more honest question to answer. I never really have felt comfortable with ‘day rates’ for stills photography. Creating great […]
Like No Aerial Camera I’ve Ever Seen…
Creating aerial photographs that our clients would like to use is a large aspect of our business. And because we don’t always know what the images will finally be used for, we shoot with the highest resolution HDSLR cameras by Canon. But sometimes, we stumble across an aerial filming helicopter with a camera system so […]
Vanishing Point
A rather insightful article on FLTR magazine highlighted the impact of images with converging lines in photography. The article by Richard Gray was principally covering what makes people ‘like’ Instagram images and one of the things that stood out was that images depicting converging lines were amongst the most popular. As a trainee draughtsman I […]
Aerial Sunrise
I love flying, but hate airports, which probably sounds very odd for someone engaged in aerial photography. But having to be there at 4.30 am for a 6.30 am flight is never common sense in my view, but that’s the world we live in today. Most times, I manage to make it to the airport, […]
Robinson Arrival Selfie
Not sure if Robinson Helicopters do Selfies, but if they did, here’s our R44 posing just on the flare for touchdown after a shoot. For anyone flying helicopters or who’s an aerial photographer, this shadows is something we see a long. Most of the time when shooting aerial photography, you’re strying to keep the helicopter […]
