This week I've photographed Saracens rugby player Richard Hill and also in an entirely unconnected job the famous school where the game of Rugby was invented. The first rugby portrait was a pretty rushed affair to be honest-as these jobs often are. Richard was squeezing The Guardian in between lots of other press interviews and photoshoots so I wasn't able to get a changing room shot as requested by the picture desk. Just five minutes outside The Saracens Hatfield Training Centre was all that was available.
Luckily for me it was a lovely sunny afternoon and with a nice cloudy sky to outline Richard Hill's 'chiselled out of stone' looks.

The second Rugby job was at the Warwickshire school,(Rugby of course!) I've driven past loads of times but never actually been inside the walls before. It's a lovely old place and I enjoyed meeting the pupils there and photographing some of them in the wonderfully atmospheric setting. The 2005 film 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' starring Stephen Fry was filmed there.


I couldn't resist getting a stock shot of the old desktops in one of the rooms. They are now displayed on the wall and carved with the names of former pupils.