Brian Hickey Photography

IKEA to launch cheap cardboard digital camera

admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:04:01 +0000

The next time you find yourself forced to endure the rooms of horrors otherwise knows as a day out at IKEA, resist buying that last minute bag of tea lights or that ever so trendy potted plant. Instead, get yourself one of these and hope to God it’s not raining outside. Now there’s no excuse to not owning a digital camera and freelancers like myself can look forward to 5-year-old kids giving their news pictures away for free. Hell, I might even buy one myself and save four grand or so on that new Nikon. I wonder if it come s in a nice cardboard box.

Do not use near a naked flame.

Picks Of The Month: March 2012

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:04:51 +0000

I’m in the process of starting up a new side to my photography business but life and work goes on as usual and on the quiet days I always go out and shoot some stock. There’s also been time for some leisure activities although even then I’ll have my camera with me.

I photographed this guy outside a cafe and submitted it to my daily photo journal at Blipfoto. It was one of their picks of the week which was quite pleasing considering the hundreds of thousands of images they receive each week.

There was a general strike in Spain during the month of March and protests took place throughout the country. I travelled down to Benidorm to look for any disruption to the tourist trade and came across these Brits making a fast getaway on their mobility scooters.

It was my mate Patrick's 50th birthday on St patrick's day. Photographs taken later in the day may have focussing issues!

This image was taken at my local market and it's almost a self-portrait.

The weather has been up and down during March but I found time for a couple of games of golf at the Aitana Resort.

Picks Of The Month: February 2012

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:06:04 +0000

The Town That Ditched The Euro

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:28:51 +0000

The Daily Express, 17th February 2012

A cutting from a feature I worked on last week. The town of Vilamayor de Santiago in La Mancha, Spain re-introduced the Spanish peseta for a one month period in order to boost the ailing local economy.

SPL Referees In La Manga

admin — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:29:03 +0000

Scotland's Premier League referees were recently in La Manga for a mid-season coaching session. Pictures by Brian Hickey

Picks Of The Month: January 2012

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:18:58 +0000

A selection of images taken during the month of January.

Benidorm ER, Channel 5

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:17:49 +0000

Dr Iris Henkel featured prominently in Episode 1.

Now that Channel 5 have started transmission of their new fly-on-the-wall documentary series “Benidorm ER” I thought I’d put up an image from the recent shoot I did with the staff at the private hospital Clinica Benidorm. Although it was a rather hectic shoot with both indoor and outdoor locations and time constraints and bearing in mind that the doctors, nurses and paramedics are kept extremely busy, all the staff and the series production team made sure that I got the images I needed. I can personally vouch for the service at Clinica Benidorm. My own GP is based there and all of the doctors, nurses and receptionists are always very professional and friendly. It’s not a place I hope to visit to often but when I do I know I will be well cared for.

Ska Festival, Spain

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:09:46 +0000

: Bad Manners with Buster Bloodvessel who appears to be going for the Captain Kurtz look.

Pauline Black from The Selecter bathed in red.

It’s amazing what you can do with a broken compact camera and some available light. My Fuji X100 is stuck on f2.0 and in need of repair but it still manages to throw out some great grain free images at ISO 1600.

Benidorm’s Playa Poniente Wins A World Architecture Award

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:40:56 +0000

Benidorm’s Playa Poniente has been chosen as the winning entry in the World Architecture News – Urban Design Awards 2011. The new promenade was officially opened in July 2009. More info here.

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Spain v Scotland

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:14:18 +0000

A busy few days photographing Scotland football supporters, otherwise knows as “The Tartan Army”, on my home turf in Alicante. As a Scotsman myself I should explain to my Spanish friends that they are wearing kilts and not skirts. ¿No son faldas! According to the Spanish press the bars and restaurants of Alicante made more money from the 15,000 travelling fans than they did during the city’s main fiesta week. Everyone enjoyed themselves, there were no arrests and it was good to see both sets of supporters mixing together in the city and at the stadium. As for the match itself, well it would have been nice if the World Champions had allowed us to touch the ball now and again. Very selfish of them. See Daily Record story at http://tinyurl.com/6znj92a. See Herald story at http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/tartan-army-invades-alicante-1.1128521

The Estadio José Rico Pérez. There were so many Scots in the stadium it could have been a home game.

Pictures by Brian Hickey Photography. From my former employers at The Herald. The Scots fans were enjoying a bit of volleyball on the beach when I took these images. They may have been enjoying the view as well.

Pictures By Brian Hickey Photography. From the Daily Record. Check out what a sporran is really used for.