Over the years, together we’ve dabbled in graphic design, photography + film work, illustration, and web design + code, trading first as sole traders with our own small businesses, then combining them to form a partnership under the name Lightbulb Head. Since having children we’ve folded the business so aren’t currently earning money from our creativity, but that hasn’t stopped us from creating.
In this section there’s a selection of some of the projects that we’ve worked on over the years – scroll down for the most recent, or use the categories on the left to see specific projects.
When on holiday in Cornwall in 2013 we wanted to capture the sea consuming the causeway to St. Michael’s Mount. We had a minor creative disagreement as to the composition for the first part of the time lapse (should we focus on the silhouette of St. Michael’s Mount, or people crossing the causeway?), but that doesn’t really matter as after an hour and a half we chose to move to a better location anyway! The tide times really were perfect as it was slowly getting dark just as the sea was lapping over the top of the causeway. We won’t lie – it was absolutely freezing sitting with the camera, but it was also incredibly beautiful.
Robin and Sean from Pig and Porter provided tasty refreshments at our wedding in terms of incredible burgers and microbrewery beer, so when they announced they were going into business together providing artisan event catering we were delighted to write their website. It was been a great learning experience for both of us working with Robin and Sean as they had clear ideas about how they wanted to create their brand, but they were also open to our (read “Kiri’s”!) creative suggestions.
After 6 years of photographing weddings, it was hard to break the habit for our own wedding – so we decided to set up a camera to take a picture every minute in the 2 days prior to the wedding and on the day itself. It’s not every groom that has to think about changing camera batteries, timelapse controller batteries and memory cards (we ended up filling four 4GB cards!) in the build-up to the wedding!
Between 2006 and 2012 Steve did wedding photography, trading as SRPhotos. The website for the company evolved over time, but its final iteration was designed by Andy Gray and implemented by Steve sitting over the top of Wordpress. The domain is now in use by another SR who does photography, but much of it is archived in the Wayback Machine (see between 2006 and 2012)
3D photography is something that I was massively into for a few years, starting when 3D films were beginning to make a resurgence at the cinema and 3D televisions were just entering the market. In that time I bought a Fujifilm W1 3D camera and a couple of 3D Loreo lenses so that I could take stereoscopic images using my existing SLRs. I even offered the option of a few stereoscopic photos at weddings for a short time. The issue for me was always how to view the photographs afterwards; lenticular prints (ridged prints that let your right and left eye see different images) were the best option, but I also gave online options red / cyan anaglyphs (viewable using red / cyan glasses) or stereoscopic pictures (viewable using stereoscopic glasses, or by using the “magic eye” technique of going slightly cross-eyed). This also led me to write a script to process the .mpo files the Fujifilm W1 3D into these options, which is now available on GitHub
When St. Mark’s Kennington church in London were advertising for a new vicar, Kiri did the graphic design for the parish profile, drawing together text, photos and graphics that had been created by others into a coherent pack for the new incumbent to understand what they were applying for
