Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Mystery Jets, Electric Circus Edinburgh, Live Photos.

Here's some photos from Mystery Jets show at the Electric Circus in Edinburgh, on the 1st April, no joke. One of my favourite bands performing in one of my favourite venues aswell, which was pretty cool! I was also reviewing this gig for Is This Music, so if you go over to their website you can read all about it in depth there, http://www.isthismusic.com/mystery-jets
The sad thing was that their original bassist Kai had actually left the band so he wasn't there, which was ashame, but if you want to see previous photos I have taken of his own project last year then check them out at this link, Kai Fish at the Brel Bar, Glasgow, Live Photos.


The shot below is one of my favourites from the set, their drummer Kapil happened to be looking right into my camera lens at the time I was taking the photo, which was very lucky indeed.

Nicola. x
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Edward Scissorhands.

I had a few gigs that I photographed all at the one time and I ended up forgetting about a few landscape photographs that I had taken at some excellent locations. Upon browsing through my files recently I stumbled across them and I couldn't help but wonder why I had never posted them in the end!
This group of photographs are from a little evening adventure back in late summer last year. I loved the location, it's completely hidden out of sight, however you almost get that feeling as if you are being watched from every angle, and for me it also doesn't help that the building and its grounds resemble edward scissorhands', you know, they even had topiary bushes, sheer genius!

I think I'm going to go back here in the summer to take some sunny shots of the place with no overcast clouds.
Also, the vintage car below was actually sitting abandoned outside the Castle, not really sure if it is the owner's or if someone has just dumped it there, but it looks beautiful alongside the building.

Monday, 27 February 2012
MAC Cosmetics, Quick Sizzle Lipstick.
If you follow me on Twitter, you will already know how much I love MAC Cosmetics! I have been acquiring a lot of their products over the past couple of years and I just bought this amazing new lipstick from their Shop MAC Cook MAC collection, and consequently I felt the need to blog about, haha.
I believe this isn't actually out on MAC's website yet as I bought mine from an exclusive pre-release with Selfridges, and infact a lot of the collection including this lipstick is already sold out on their website so if you manage to get your hands on this, buy it.
Just look at that glorious packaging...so amazing! This lipstick is called Quick Sizzle and obviously, it's a pink lipstick...a bright hot pink with a blue undertone. The formulation is matte which is a tad bit on the drying side compared to previous matte lipsticks that I have owned, but nonetheless it's still gorgeous.
I love taking product photographs, I may do more of these type of posts if I have the spare time!
I said I would upload a photo of me wearing this lipstick a while ago so here it is, a self portrait picture for you all! I love this colour by the way, and yes, that is an AFI necklace that I have on, they are my all time favourite band, huge love to them.
Nicola. x
I believe this isn't actually out on MAC's website yet as I bought mine from an exclusive pre-release with Selfridges, and infact a lot of the collection including this lipstick is already sold out on their website so if you manage to get your hands on this, buy it.

I love taking product photographs, I may do more of these type of posts if I have the spare time!
I said I would upload a photo of me wearing this lipstick a while ago so here it is, a self portrait picture for you all! I love this colour by the way, and yes, that is an AFI necklace that I have on, they are my all time favourite band, huge love to them.

Monday, 30 January 2012
Panic! At The Disco, Barrowland Glasgow, Live Photos.

Just a quick blog post with a few photos from Panic! At The Disco's gig at the Barrowlands in Glasgow, on the 28th January, and as always my review of the show is on Is This Music's website at, http://www.isthismusic.com/panic-at-the-disco
I hope you all enjoy reading it!



Saturday, 14 January 2012
All Time Low, O2 Academy Glasgow, Live Photos.
First photography gig of 2012, All Time Low at the O2 Academy in Glasgow!
This is probably the biggest show I have photographed to date, and I must say it was an absolutely amazing experience. I also reviewed the show so if you would like to read my review for Is This Music Magazine, go to this link (http://www.isthismusic.com/all-time-low)

After photographing the first three songs I stayed for the whole show since I was also reviewing (even though I'm sure I would have stayed either way as the band were incredible live), they played about 18 songs with some hilarious banter inbetween. If you get the chance to see these guys live, GO! It's a must!

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the photos, more can be found on my Flickr account at, http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolasharkeyphotography
Hopefully I'll be back for another update shortly.
Nicola. x
This is probably the biggest show I have photographed to date, and I must say it was an absolutely amazing experience. I also reviewed the show so if you would like to read my review for Is This Music Magazine, go to this link (http://www.isthismusic.com/all-time-low)




Hopefully I'll be back for another update shortly.
Nicola. x
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Everyone!
Happy Holidays!
I have finally created the video with all of my photos from 2011... here it is!
I hope you all enjoy watching it, and hopefully next year there will be a whole lot more photos :)
Whilst I'm having way too much fun on this JibJab site where you can create your own Christmas Ecards I better wrap this post up here before I get carried away...I hope everyone has a lovely holiday!
Nicola. x
I have finally created the video with all of my photos from 2011... here it is!
I hope you all enjoy watching it, and hopefully next year there will be a whole lot more photos :)
Nicola. x
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
End of another awesome year...
Hey everyone,
Since it's near the end of December, I thought I'd write a post with an (almost) monthly re-cap of all the awesome things I experienced this year with my Photography. The main reason I decided to do this was actually because I saw another Photographer's blog post similar to this last year and I really enjoyed looking through the photos! Very inspiring to say the most!
Anyway, here goes...
In February I photographed My Fallen Idea, at Dexters in Dundee. I also recorded the first live music HD Video on my new camera at this gig, you can check it out on my Vimeo account, the name of the song is called 'Coast'.

As I had started recording HD Videos in February, I then took a live video of The Agitator at their Captain's Rest gig in Glasgow. This is one of my favourites!
In April, I photographed Dry The River, at King Tuts in Glasgow. The first gig I've ever shot at the famous legendary venue, it was awesome! I also compiled a live video of the band, with a couple of their songs.

In July, I photographed Sons & Daughters, at SWG3 in Glasgow. Another fun gig, and I managed to snap a couple of Promo pics with the band after the show aswell, which is always ace.

In August, I photographed the amazing Taking Back Sunday, at the ABC in Glasgow. It was definitely the best show I've taken photos at this year. I really enjoyed it, and the guys are such a great band to photograph. I also wrote my first live review of the show for Is This Music magazine, which you can read on their website.


In September, I photographed Howling Bells, at the Oran Mor in Glasgow, once again for Is This Music magazine. I went along to an interview with Juanita Stein, and photographed promo shots for the feature on the website.


Also, in September, I photographed Kai Fish (of Mystery Jets), at the Brel Bar in Glasgow, which was a very small and intimate gig. Loved the setting and Kai's solo work is truly sensational.
...and, at the end of September, I photographed and reviewed The Kooks, at Barrowlands in Glasgow, for Is This Music Magazine. This was such a huge experience for me, as I'd never had the opportunity previously to photograph a gig that size, it was lots of fun!

Then in October, I photographed and reviewed The Maccabees, at the Liquid Room in Edinburgh, for Is This Music Magazine. This was another gig I really enjoyed photographing this year! Really loved it, the band were also amazing live.

...and there we go, I hope you all enjoyed looking through the photos!
I'll hopefully be writing some more news pretty soon, probably a video of all the pics from this year, and after that it will most likely be January 2012!
Nicola. x
Since it's near the end of December, I thought I'd write a post with an (almost) monthly re-cap of all the awesome things I experienced this year with my Photography. The main reason I decided to do this was actually because I saw another Photographer's blog post similar to this last year and I really enjoyed looking through the photos! Very inspiring to say the most!
Anyway, here goes...
In February I photographed My Fallen Idea, at Dexters in Dundee. I also recorded the first live music HD Video on my new camera at this gig, you can check it out on my Vimeo account, the name of the song is called 'Coast'.

In April, I photographed Dry The River, at King Tuts in Glasgow. The first gig I've ever shot at the famous legendary venue, it was awesome! I also compiled a live video of the band, with a couple of their songs.















I'll hopefully be writing some more news pretty soon, probably a video of all the pics from this year, and after that it will most likely be January 2012!
Nicola. x
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