 | Nikon D3 Digital SLR Camera
Buy new: £3,241.40 The ultimate pro workhorse camera. I use this day in, day out to produce images for my websites.
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 | Nikon 80-200Mm F2.8Ed Af Zoom Nikkor D
Buy new: £789.99 / Used from: £660.00 Perfect lens for glamour photography. Never leaves my bag. Better balance and handling than the newer 70-210 VR and more importantly less expensive.
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 | Nikon AF-S 24-70mm/2.8G ED
Buy new: £1,194.00 / Used from: £1,069.00 Excellent choice for tight spaces and sumptious landscapes. Get closer to your subject for some outstanding images.
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 | SB-900 Speedlight
Buy new: £343.99 Designed for the D3 but great across the whole system. Works very well in off camera situations. A hard working, totally reliable piece of pro kit. Your picture improvement starts here.
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 | Nikon D90 Digital SLR Camera 18-105 VR Kit
Buy new: £785.20 This is a very nice back up camera if you are using the Nikon system. Small, fits in the bag OK and is a great price with this lens kit. A very well designed, 'carry all day' camera for holidays etc.
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 | Billingham 335 Canvas Camera Bag With Tan Leather Trim - Khaki
Buy new: £206.17 As used by Fleet St. 'smudgers' since forever. The original and still the best. Trust me, buy one.
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 | Manfrotto 055XDB,128RC 3 Section Aluminium Tripod With A 128Rc Head - Black
Buy new: £150.63 I find this to be ideal for my uses. Heavy enough for the studio and light enough to take out and about.
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 | Joby Gorillapod Focus GP8
Buy new: £93.26 I wasnt sure about the price on this at first but having carried it in my bag for a few months I would have quite happily paid double. It is a fantastic bit of kit. Wrap round stands, trees, lamp post
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 | Giottos GTAA1900 Rocket Air Blower - Black
Buy new: £6.92 Get one of these now! put it in the bag and never ever take it out. Well, except to use it obviously.
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 | Nikon Micro Fiber Cleaning Cloth
Buy new: £8.25 Good for all things glass. I always have a couple to hand. Will clean computer screens too.
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 | Mac Pro Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.66GHz /1GB/250GB/SD/NV7300GT
Buy new: £1,512.95 The heart of the post production system. In my opinion the best thing you can buy if you're serious about making money from photography.
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 | Apple Cinema HD Display - Flat panel display - TFT - 30" - 2560 x 1600 - 0.25 mm - DVI
Buy new: £1,150.10 / Used from: £1,200.00 30 inches of pure genius. This is the monitor for all my post production work. Best colour I have ever seen.
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 | MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz/2GB/250GB/GeForce 9600M GT/SuperDrive
Buy new: £1,115.00 / Used from: £1,000.00 For checking images on the spot both in studio and on location. Helps models get a feel for the shot. Must have.
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 | Aperture 2.1.1 Retail
Buy new: £107.84 / Used from: £95.45 Couldn't work without this really. Tames the workflow perfectly. My favourite piece of software.
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 | Adobe Photoshop CS4 (Mac)
Buy new: £649.99 You knew this would be here right? It's a no brainer. You have to have it.
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 | Drobo - 4 Bay FW800 & USB 2.0 Storage Array inc Drobo Share NAS Solution
Buy new: £369.99 Once you have used one of these you will wonder what we ever did without one. Storage for 21st century.
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 | Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATAII 32MB Cache Dual Processor Internal Hard Drive OEM
Buy new: £76.95 / Used from: £72.00 Found these to be the best drives to compliment the drobo. I currently use 4x1.5TB installed.
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 | Trust All-in-1 Desktop Card Reader for Mac
Buy new: £12.00 Like this card reader a lot. Sits nicely on the desk, sounds odd but using them all day you notice thses things!
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 | LINX HDMI Cable - Premium Gold Plated HDMI Lead for Full HD/HD Ready TVs - 1.2 metres
Buy new: £8.99 Always useful for connecting the camera to big screen plasmas and LCD for checking images.
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 | Sandisk 8GB Extreme IV Compact Flash CF Card - Retail Pack
Buy new: £59.61 Very fast read/write speeds. Reliable. Works very well for me.
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 | Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 2: Professionaly Manage Digital Photographs by Ben Long
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £27.43 Great reference series from Apple. Always the best way to get the most out of the software.
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 | Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC: A Professional Image ... Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC by Martin Evening
Buy new: £19.51 / Used from: £18.19 Ive learned more from this book than any other. Good pace and full of real world solutions and tips.
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 | Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2009: A Directory for Writers, Artists, Playwrights, Designers, Illustrators and Photographers (Writers' & Artists' Yearbook) by Kate Mosse (foreword)
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £2.95 Always a must have. Great source of revenue for all sorts of photographers.
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 | The Freelance Photographer's Market Handbook 2009 2009 (Photography)
Buy used from: £3.92 Invaluble for contacts of where to sell your pictures. Latest copy is always on my bookshelf.
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 | Ed Fox: Glamour from the Ground Up by Dian Hanson
Buy new: £18.19 / Used from: £11.99 Hey, we all need inspiration from time to time!
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