Steve Thornton Photography

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Welcome to my new website. I am going to add many new client pages displaying a variety of studio and location work in a blog style fashion over the coming summer months. Please use the RSS feed to receive new content as it is added. Especially those of you who would like to keep track of how the third volume of "Flytyers of the World" book is made. I feel that adding personal information on how an assignment takes place, rather than simply publishing a set of portfolios, makes this site a little more interesting and hopefully help people understand a little more about how photography is produced.



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Spanish Pyrenees. Photo & fly fishing recce

For the last 3 or 4 years I've heard whispers of great things happening 'fly fishing wise' in the Spanish Pyrenees. Rumours of trophy wild brown trout, fast flowing freestone rivers, stunning scenery, wildlife, quaint bars and great food. I started to 'coin' it as the European catskills, which started to raise a few eyebrows.


No 'coms' for a whole week...
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Photographic feature for Trout & Salmon Magazine


Tiggy Legge Bourke teaching fly fishing on the River Usk, Wales.

Wynn Davis asked me if I would shoot a feature for Trout & Salmon Magazine on the Welsh Usk at the Glanusk Estate. It was a truly wonderful commission. One of those shoots that we hope comes along every week. Wynn Davis (journalist for Trout & Salmon) and expert fly fisher Dave Mee, met Rhys Lleywelyn and myself at the Glanusk Estate where we were welcomed by Harry and Iona Legge-Bourke.

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SASTA

Steve shoots new catalogue for SASTA - Finland.



After a call came through to have a look at shooting a new catalogue for SASTA I headed to South Wales to meet the client and go through all the rough designs which where planned by the designers to make a new 42 page clothing catalogue.
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Sonik Sports

Sonik Sports photographic assignment...



Being an avid fly fisherman and flytyer I find it an absolute pleasure to actually to be commissioned for fly fishing assignments. One such assignment was Sonik Sports.
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Fly Fishing Photography

Fly Fishing Photography - Whats in the bag!



After spending more than 15 years working in hot studios shooting still life and food, its  now an absolute breath of fresh air to be commissioned for photographic assignments by magazines and advertising agencies around the world. Having flown on many airlines to many countries across the globe, I now like to think that the experience has helped me refine what I have to carry to enable me to cover these assignments. 

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Newsflash

Flytyers of the World Vol 3

 The making of Volume 3

I have already put together volumes 1 and 2. (See photograph). These, especially the 1st, was, as always was the hardest, as there is absolutely nothing to work from. It's a blank canvas! No photography style, no typography, no colour styles, no layout to work from, all this has to be designed before anything is done.
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