John Wright specializes in events where clients require a high volume, fast coverage workflow

John has worked the last 15 years as an IT consultant (now very much part time). He originally qualified as a Micro Electronic Design Engineer. John has worked for GEC designing Automatic Test Equipment as well 10 years with Reuters and Associated Press designing information systems for trading rooms, holding senior management positions with both. John designed and developed the communications system for the major utilities to use to status report at cabinet level for Y2k roll-over.

A part of his work load was supplying and sourcing images to emphasise and visually compliment the content of the web based systems being developed. This was an area of special interest to John and in 2004 he decided to concentrate on photography and the supply of images to clients. John's background suited the areas of photography that required good IT knowledge and he has been largely working on system development and supplying services to clients requiring high throughput image capture.

As an example he has supplied services and designed systems for clients who typically deal with sports celebrities, as well as covering over 200 football matches and photographing many other events. Celebrities covered include Ricky Hatton, Frank Bruno, Joe Calzaghe, the 1966 World Cup Team and Sir Henry Cooper amongst others. Covering celebrity events has the added pressure that time is money and it is expected that the work flow and system performance will be very efficient and very reliable.

John has a good knowledge of lighting skills (theory and practical) eg. wrap around in high key, as well as  product photography which requires very good light control to do well.

A recent project saw John develop and implement a multi photographer solution for a large Santa's Grotto where all images need to be previewed and printed without minimal operator input but also allowing on-site print packages to be produced with by operators with minimal training.