Some photos from the emotional last voyage of the HMS Liverpool…
A misty, still morning on the Mersey. The perfect setting for some photos of the HMS Liverpool‘s return. The emotional last journey will culminate in her being De-commissioned after an illustrious career in the British Navy. She’ll be docked in Liverpool over the weekend – and I’ll be back down on Monday morning to capture [...]
Singing Sensation Laura White – some photos from a recent Manchester Event
The voice of sensational singer Laura White is certainly something very special to experience. Known from the controversial exit from the X-Factor a couple of years back – i’m confident this year the negative aspects of that will be put well behind and she will be known for what she is right now – an [...]
It’s official – Christmas has hit Liverpool – some photos from Liverpool One’s festivities last night
Liverpool One kicked off Christmas in fine style last night with all sorts of icy shennanigans going on. First up – grabbed a few photos of the 32 Santas jumping on the North Star ride. Next was Santa’s Grotto followed by the rest of the attractions including an ice skating rink, climbing wall and a [...]
Santa’s Coming to town – heading down to Liverpool One tonight to grab some photos of the Christmas Festivities
Heading down tonight to grab some photos of the Christmas festivities at Liverpool One. In true style, it appears it will be bigger, better, faster etc than last year with a toboggan run, an alpine skate lodge, North Star ride etc! Seems like just yesterday – but here’s what it looked like last Christmas… For [...]
James Bond 007 – Blood Stone launch party – some photos for Bizarre Creations Liverpool
Celebrating the launch of their latest game James Bond 007 – Blood Stone, Bizarre Creations pulled off another brilliant party in the centre of Liverpool. As always, a pleasure to photograph and always interesting to see what party antics they had up their sleeve. This time a giant ice sculpture of an original Walther PPK [...]
Glitz and Glam – some photos from the LUKE Manchester Store Opening
Fashionistas from all round the UK descended upon Manchester last night for the exclusive launch of LUKE in the Arndale Centre. It was a bit of a “who’s who” in both the fashion and celebrity worlds with Brian Dowling from Big Brother fame and Rio Ferdinand also due to make an appearance. Drinks were flowing [...]
Emmet Scanlan aka “bad boy Brendan” from Hollyoaks – some photos for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
Emmet Scanlan, Irish actor from Hollyoaks and numerous other movies is giving up smoking as part of the lung cancer awareness month of November. I popped down to “Hollyoaks-ville” to grab some PR photos for Roy Castle. Emmet had was already into his first day of giving up… and actually seemed very pleasant considering! After [...]
It’s all about the Turkeys! Some photos for Lunya restaurant Liverpool
The brief – head out to a farm and grab some photos of 100 turkeys grazing in a field. Yep, no worries! These Turkeys are being hand reared at Thurstaston Farm exclusively for Lunya restaurant in the heart of Liverpool One. Owner and executive chef Peter Kinsella was giving me the low down on how [...]
Brugal Rum hits the streets of Manchester. Some photos from the Northern Quarter.
Saturday afternoon I headed across to Manchester to grab some photographs of the Brugal Rum Promotion goin’ on. Introduced to the UK in 2008 – the Dominican Republic Rum is now being heavily promoted in the Northwest. They’ve teamed up with some of the country’s top street artists to create large murals on the city [...]
Mathew Street Festival 2010 – some photos from an awesome weekend!
Bigger, better and definitely sunnier! Another Mathew Street Festival is done and dusted – and what an amazing weekend it was! Perfect early autumnal weather greeted the thousands of Liverpudlians who hit the streets, for what is now the biggest street party in Europe! I’ll be posting photos from the festival in the coming days, [...]
Mathew Street Festival Kicks off with a beauty blue sky day…
Starting off with rain looming – the clouds disappeared and the Mathew Street Festival Liverpool 2010 kicked off with a bang!Turned out to be a great day for photography. Here’s a quick snap from the Black Eyed Peaz on the Superlambanana stage. There’ll be plenty more photos to come…
The People of Mathew Street… some more photos from last year…
That’s what it’s all about right? People from all walks of life coming together for the Mathew Street Festival Liverpool. Sure to be another magic couple of days this year, it all kicks off on Sunday… see ya’ll down there! For more event photography action click here Ant Clausen Event Photography
Mathew Street Festival is looming – here’s a few photos from last year
The fantastic Mathew Street Festival, Liverpool is here again this bank holiday weekend.. pray for sunshine! It’s been a crazy year since the last one – and didn’t get round to posting a blog entry from last year. So here goes……. Liverpool City Centre is literally transformed into one big concert/party area for 2 days. [...]
New Zealand Coastline – some photos from my favourite beaches…
As it’s a lazy Sunday and all… have been looking through a few images taken from my last trip back to New Zealand. There’s one particular beach just over an hour’s drive north from my home in Auckland. You can drive up there on a Sunday morning and literally have the whole beach to yourself. [...]
Something for the petrol-heads! Pageant of Power, Cholmondeley photos 2010
A break in the weather gave me a window of half an hour to run round and grab some photos of the Pageant of Power, Cholmondeley. Lucky there was some sun otherwise there would only be close-up shots of V12 engines! A fantastic setting down in the Cheshire country-side, the pageant of power is essentially [...]
Isla Gladstone first Birthday Party, Stanley Park, Liverpool – here’s the photos!
Great night had by all at the Isla Gladstone Conservatory’s first birthday and a great night for photography! Storm clouds were brewing in the distance as the sun was trying to set, provising some lovely ethereal-type light filtering through… here’s a few photos from the event… For more event photography action click here Ant Clausen [...]
It’s Isla’s first birthday tonight…
So i’ll be heading down to grab a few photos of the festivities. It sounds like the Isla Gladstone Conservatory has had a very colourful history… being burned down, left to neglect, and now has been restored and standing proud in the re-furbished Stanley Park. It’s been a pleasure to be part of its first [...]
This is Ph Creative – a couple of photos from their recent team shoot
Ph Creative – these guys are not your typical creative agency. It seems they like to kick the bog-standard old school design malarcky well into touch. So the brief was to capture their fresh creative take on things in the form of a few relaxed photographs. Without further ado… Click here Photography Liverpool to [...]
The New Liverpool Skyline – a photo from a recent night time shoot.
Was recently commissioned to take a few photos in and around Liverpool. I made my way down to the Mersey one clear evening and grabbed a few shots. Conscious of the number of Liverpool Skyline shots i’ve both seen and taken since i’ve been living here, I zoomed in a little closer and tried to [...]
Simon Rimmer from BBC Something for the Weekend – photos of his restaurant Greens in Manchester
Rolled over to Manchester to grab some photos for BBC Olive magazine. This time the brief was to try and catch the “busy TV celebrity chef” Simon Rimmer and his restaurant Greens in south Manchester. Great little restaurant with a fab team of chefs rustling up some great vegetarian nosh! Simon Rimmer was a really [...]
Summer Beach Volleyball in Liverpool ONE – some photos from Tuesday night
After raining all day, the sun came out and I headed down to Liverpool ONE to grab some photos of the new beach volleyball set-up. And what a fantastic set-up it is! Beside the new outdoor plunge pool and next to the tropical cocktail bar is where it can be found. Perfect for the balmy [...]
More photos from the Liverpool One Summer Beach!
Hard to believe the sun came out in Liverpool One for about half an hour yesterday – but luckily enough it did – and gave me the opportunity to fulfil the brief of capturing photos of people out in the sun having a good time at the new Liverpool One beach! On another note I [...]
Pete Price hits the beach, Liverpool styles…
Some say Liverpool doesn’t have a beach… well that’s all changed down at Liverpool One. All we need now is a summer! Went down to grab some photos of the launch night tonight and for about half an hour, the sun came out! Amazing transformation with palm trees, cocktail bars and the largest portable roller [...]
A Portrait of Marco Pierre White. Some PR photos from his recent visit up North.
Marco Pierre White is spending a lot more time in the Northwest these days with the White Swan restaurant in Aughton and another in Chester. The brief was to grab a few PR/promo photos of him yesterday. And as a few people have already remarked – it was nice to see him smiling too! Click [...]