Nick Miners Photography

Here’s what you get if you take the essence of Ice­land Air­waves 2011 and dis­til it into a 3 and a half minute video. Thanks to Icelandic Gla­cial Water for bring­ing this to my attention.

I think it’s about time I told you all what is hap­pen­ing with Nick Miners Pho­to­graphy in the com­ing months. I’ve known about it, and have hin­ted at it, for sev­eral months now, but the time is right to give you an update.

I have been presen­ted with an oppor­tun­ity which I can’t let pass; so in the new year I will be start­ing out as a full time pro­fes­sional photographer.

Exactly what I will be doing I have yet to estab­lish; I need to write my busi­ness plan and decide exactly what form my pho­to­graphy will take. There are vari­ous ways a pho­to­grapher can make money, so I need to find the best fit between my own skills and the rel­ev­ant market(s). I have, in the past, made money from more than one type of pho­to­graphy, and need to decide whether I should spe­cial­ise, or if I can afford to be more of an all-​​rounder to begin with.

If you fol­low me on Twit­ter you may well notice my style become more act­ively pro­mo­tional; hope­fully this will not put you off and will not pre­vent you from enga­ging with me in the con­ver­sa­tions which make Twit­ter such a great tool. Addi­tion­ally, if you believe you have the exper­i­ence, skills and/​or know­ledge to help me out on this jour­ney, I’d be delighted to hear from you.

I’d like to thank you all for your sup­port, and hope that one day some of you will be happy customers.

Tomor­row I shall be step­ping on a plane with Tim Boddy and James Can­ham from The 405 with the aim of cov­er­ing as much as pos­sible of the 2011 Ice­land Air­waves fest­ival in Reyk­javík. This fest­ival began as a one-​​night event in an aero­plane hanger in 1999 and has expan­ded to become one of the most pop­u­lar fest­ivals on the calendar.

This year the fest­ival runs from 12^th-​​16^th Octo­ber, with around 250 artists play­ing at 10 ven­ues and numer­ous off-​​venue events, often until around 4:00 in the morn­ing. Need­less to say we are all explod­ing with excite­ment at the pro­spect, and will do our best to bring you reviews and pho­to­graphs of some of the best new bands from Ice­land and bey­ond, as well as spe­cial cov­er­age of one of Björk’s Bio­philia per­form­ances in the city’s brand new opera house, Harpa.

Stay tuned for sneaky peeks at some of the pho­to­graphs, and keep an eye on the 405 for pre­views, artist inter­views and live reviews through­out the festival.

I’ve cre­ated a min­is­ite of music pho­tos, con­tain­ing just the best of my music pics to date. While I’ll con­tinue to post gal­ler­ies here on a reg­u­lar basis, the min­is­ite will be updated less fre­quently, and will act as a port­fo­lio of my music work that I can use for pro­mo­tional purposes.

You can see the site at music​.nick​miners​.com.

More music pho­to­graphy; this time on assign­ment for the405. I was asked to pho­to­graph Goose, an elec­tronic four piece from Kortrijk in Bel­gium, who were in Lon­don to pro­mote their new album, Syn­rise. I turned up at the club, and was unex­pec­tedly given a back­stage pass, so got to chat to a few mem­bers of the band beforehand.

You can read a review of the new album here, and at this page you can see my pho­tos from the evening.