Category Archives: Assignment Photography

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2018 MCM / EOD Printable Calendar Available NOW

The 2018 MCM (Mine Counter Measures) / EOD (Explosive Ordinance) Calendar is available now! These are a collection of some of the images of the brave IEDD / MCM operators from various countries I have […]

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2017 MCM / EOD PRINTABLE CALENDAR AVAILABLE

Well, it is that time of the year again when all the images (or a lot of them) I have shot settle down for the year and I get to go through some of the […]

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Octopus Dive School Yearly Calendar 2017 Available

Over the last couple of years I have had the opportunity to do some more pleasurable recreational diving and photography in Roatan Honduras with the wonderful bunch at Octopus Dive School – a small, very […]

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Deep Divex 2015 – Bergen Norway

These are the images of the NATO Naval Special Forces Deep Dive Teams plying their trade on an exercise in Bergen Norway Oct 2015. Brave bunch doing a dangerous job. Images acquired on the Deep […]

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Timing is everything .. no crystal ball needed.

Being in the right place at the right time has a lot to do with getting a successful shot. Being familiar with your environment takes the guesswork out of predicting what is going to happen […]

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Getting there is half the “fun” ….

  This particular shot has me all kitted out in commercial diving gear (I am a former commercial diver) as I ride the diving stage down to the commercial divers training at Seneca Colleges Deep […]

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The robot and I.

Gotta keep out of the way from these things! While shooting in Iceland for a NATO EOD exercise,  a robot is busily scouring the area for signs of explosives. Equipped with a remote camera and […]

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Images of MCM – A Free 2013 Screensaver of MCM and EOD Photography

Every year I do a screensaver (for windows) of selected images I have taken on past assignments for the MCM (Mine Counter Measures) and EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) Teams that I have had the honour […]

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Can you see me now???

One of the tasks on the Icelandic Northern Challenge exercise was to make some pictures during a night operation. Easy enough I thought as a gathered a Nikon D800 and a couple of fast 2.8F […]

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Iceland in the morning

Early morning shot of an EOD search team looking for explosives on Icelands Northern Challenge EOD exercise. Bomb technicians spread out over the landscape at intervals so that if something should happen, the next individual […]

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