Saint Monica Trust - Facilities, Aspirational Living & Care

Saint Monica Trust

Retirement Villages

St. Monica Trust is a Bristol based collective of retirement villages, with independent residential living and care facilities at 5 sites around the city and surrounding countryside.

The brief for photography covered the facilities and architecture of each village, to capture the character of each. In addition, we made a series of shoots with models (and a few willing residents!) to create location specific aspirational living portfolios, as well as specific sets to reflect care, activities and catering at SMT.

This project exemplifies what I love doing most in my commercial photography at present. Balancing between many genres of photography and having them inform one another, fitting everything together into a wider cohesive set.

You can see the whole series on their shiny new website, created by the fantastic girls & boys MUD. 

PS: I've promised to get back to editing and publishing my travel photography super soon... Much more fun! Been a tad busy building a house. 

2014.08.18 Bobbielicious Food Blog

For 3 months now my girlfriend Bobbie has been publishing a food blog, lots of fun and a good excuse to make amazing healthy food.

I’ve been helping out by making photos each time she create a new recipe - at speed because its getting cold! This post is a collection of my favourite food shots so far. It’s been great practice actually and good to see the gradual adjustments I’ve made to my approach recently.

You can drool over Bobbie’s Blog here:

bobbieliciousness.blogspot.co.uk

As usual you also can view this set on Flickr

As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or 

facebook

, are hugely helpful and welcome.

If you don't like something then please, tell me - Also try to articulate why, it is tremendously useful to have constructive, critical feedback. You can view my full portfolio, contact and pricing information on my WEBSITE -

tomglendinning.co.uk

Rice Crépes

Courgette with Herb Dressing

Green Asparagus Salad with Navaho bread

Wild Garlic Potatoes

2013.10.05 Dwarf Hop Harvest

If you hadn't heard…

I am now

officially

a full time, happy-as-larry, unemployed and hard working freelance photographer for all your photographic needs!

News out of the way - pictures:

This year I've managed to be on time for the hop harvest back home in Herefordshire (my Dad Peter is a hop researcher and we live in a valley of dwarf hops). So these are photos of the dwarf hop harvester doing it's thing.

As usual you also can view this set on Flickr

As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or 

facebook

, are hugely helpful and welcome.

If you don't like something then please, tell me - Also try to articulate why, it is tremendously useful to have constructive, critical feedback.

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Epic Pancakecake

Streaty has been making a list of all the things to be done in June now we have graduated. Playing coop Portal 2 and wasting days on Age of Empires and slacklining has happened, and now one of my additions to the list has been ticked off. A grand finale (or at least a significant milestone) to my pancake obsession which started during lent - I had decided that all the eggs, butter and milk being given up had to be eaten by

somebody,

 and why not me? 

I do not need to describe this in words, except that I nearly drowned in maple syrup, fried banana, homemade bulgarian honey, mango and strawberries. We eat it all (minus one slice) in a single sitting. We

win.

Every pancake has a layer of goo or fruit.

This is the only slice we managed to stay up in one piece...