I was commissioned by Amateur Gardening Magazine to photograph the lovely Jo Whittingham – she’s their new gardening columnist and so the magazine needed a good series of shots of Jo in her garden, with beautiful son Evan, to illustrate her column. I’ve been lucky enough to photograph Jo a good few times now for...
Category Archives: editorial
Oh my…..
Gosh, sometimes my job is soooo hard. Try photographing these delicious cakes for example, whilst not accidently drooling on them. I’m not kidding, my mouth was watering for the whole shoot! I was in gorgeous cafe Mimi’s Bakehouse at The Shore in Leith, to photograph their beautiful scrumptious cakes and take some interior shots for...
At Home Magazine
I was recently commissioned for a shoot for The Scotland on Sunday ‘At Home’ magazine, to photograph the Dover family in their wonderful family home. I got lots of lovely pictures, the Dover’s were a lot of fun and the kids were more than happy to jump on beds for me, resulting in this great...
Lovely surprise…
I’ve just found out that one of my images, shot for The Woodland Trust, has just made a cracking front cover for award winning magazine Scotland Outdoors! Fab surprise, I’m really pleased - it looks great!… FacebookTwitter
The Good Life…
I was recently commissioned to take some photography for a book on allotment gardening by The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. Growing your own fruit and veg is a real growing trend at the moment, and this book will be explaining lots of techniques to make the most of your own little patch of heaven, so...
Gardening with Jo and Evan…
I recently photographed the lovely Jo Whittingham, gardener extraordinaire and new mum, for a feature for The Scotsman Magazine. I’ve photographed Jo a couple of times before and it was lovely to see her again and meet her gorgeous wee baby Evan. He was in his element, getting to grips with the gardening at only...
Helen Pugh Creative is born….
My new PR photography and Editorial website www.helenpughcreative.com has just gone live! I thought it was about time I had a platform for my commercial portfolio, to showcase some of my favourite PR and Editorial shots….. Take a look if you get chance… FacebookTwitter
It’s a Weird World….
A few months ago I photographed the weird and wacky Uri Geller on his visit to North Berwick, and I’ve just found out that my pictures have been published worldwide in the Wall Street Journal! How strange is that?! Very exciting – now how do I track down a copy?!… You can read the article...
Sir David Attenborough
I had such a wonderful opportunity this week, and I’m still reeling with excitement… I was asked to photograph Sir David Attenborough, the legendary wildlife television presenter, during his first trip to The Bass Rock. The Bass is an island just off the East Lothian coast and is home to the world’s largest colony of...
Hanging on the telephone….
What a fab morning! Spent a great couple of hours in the sunshine up Calton Hill shooting press pictures of the inventor of the telephone ‘Alexander Graham Bell’ launching a new GPS walking Digi-Guide App for Roam Edinburgh. They create fantastic city walking tours that you can download to your iPhone. It’s Alexander’s birthday on...
John Collins….
I recently had the pleasure of photographing John Collins, former international footballer and former Hibs manager, shooting pictures for The Players Lounge magazine. Such a lovely guy, really warm and personable, and he gave a fantastic interview. And he didn’t complain once when posing for pictures, despite me dragging him outdoors in the drizzle for...
Lauren Luke
I photographed the lovely Lauren Luke recently for the Scotsman magazine – she’s a youtube sensation with her make-up tutorials, filmed in her bedroom, and has an amazing 58 million hits on youtube and still counting! She now has her own make-up line and book, and seems to be everywhere at the moment, on the...