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Dan Renton

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About Me

I have an eye for taking pictures.

I spent 5 years as an employed product photographer and now I work with video for the web. What you see below (apart form one image) are bits and pieces I have done in my spare time as commissioned work or from just being in the right place!

In addition to 'dayjob' I launched Desert Rock Skateboards in the summer of 2006. Despite it's reasonable local and cult success It has been brought to a close due to time issues and missing out on some things I enjoy far too much.

I've done a spot of Dj'ing (ROCK!)and event organization in my short time, this is making a resurgence shortly.

My Interests


Photography, particuarly live bands. Skateboarding - longboards & old school/pool boards - No ollies thanks. Rock music. Live bands. Beer. Playing the geetar. Video games, though I will never 'pown' you or whatever the hell that means.

Music:

Some of my favourite bands... Nirvana, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins, POTUSA, Foo Fighters, Offspring (pre Americana),Kyuss, Mudhoney, QOTSA, Fu Manchu, Nebula, Unida, The Beach Boys, Hermano, ACDC, Led Zep, Floyd, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent, Deftones, Iggy & The Stooges, Mad Season, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Monster Magnet, Hendrix, Mountain, Wolfmother, Brandt Bjork, Old Basford, Clams, White Zombie, The Hellacopters, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, Screaming Trees, Atomic Bitchwax, Jack Johnson, Tenacious D, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Danzig and a whole lot more.

Movies:

Star Wars IV-VI, Enter The Dragon, Donnie Darko, Dogtown & Z-Boys, Mallrats, Tron, Black Hawk Down, American Beauty, Aliens, The Warriors, Assualt On Precinct 13 (original), The Endless Summer, LOTR trilogy, Dawn Of The Dead, Evil Dead 2, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, Anchorman, 300, Planet Terror, The Black Hole, old Godzilla movies.

Television:

I've never been one to stay in for TV. I do like watching episodes from DVD's though... My Name Is Earl, Family Guy, Spaced, Firefly, Lost, That 70's Show, American Dad, Robot Chicken, Battlestar Galactica (classic & modern), Smallville, Life On Mars, Futurama, Heroes, Samurai Jack, Takeshi's Castle, Jackass.

Books:

Not much of a reader. If I 'read' it's usually mags or comics/graphic novels. The Pilgrimage, The Carpet People, The Zombie Survival Guide, The Walking Dead, The Concrete Wave.

Heroes:

Not sure about 'heroes'. But people who stand out in my book other than Ghandi, Spiderman and The Fonz are... Wes Humpston, Jay Adams, Craig Stecyk III, Glen E Freidman, Mr Cobain, Eddy Vedder, John Bonham and whoever thought to put caramel in Chocolate Digestive biscuits.

My Blog

Photos - Clams gig - 30.06.07

The Clams conqured '60 Million Postcards' in Bournemouth. ...
Posted by Dan Renton on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:15:00 PST

Photo's - We're All Armed - 29.06.07

Friday night, at The Central in Poole, I went along to photograph local rockers We're All Armed for their debut gig. ...
Posted by Dan Renton on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:52:00 PST

Wreckless Intent Metal night shoot 22.05.07

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Posted by Dan Renton on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:37:00 PST