The Blog for Trevor Burrows - Commercial Photographer Plymouth Devon

In March this year, I had the privilege of providing professional event photography for the SDS Charity Quiz Night 2025, one of the most impactful fundraising events in Plymouth’s business calendar. Hosted by Services Design Solution (SDS), the evening brought together 30 teams from across the Westcountry’s construction industry for a fun-filled night of trivia and fundraising. The event raised an outstanding £8,300.11 in support of the Ocean Conservation Trust, making this their most successful quiz night yet.

As a long-time supporter and returning sponsor, I was proud to once again donate my photographic services to document the energy, excitement, and generosity of the evening. From candid team moments to high-stakes quiz rounds and prize draws, my aim was to capture the spirit of the event through authentic, story-driven photography. This year’s fundraising will fully fund STEMFest 2025, a hands-on marine science experience reaching over 1,000 young people across the South West. It’s fantastic to know that the evening’s success will remove financial barriers for children and expand awareness around ocean conservation.

Events like this show the power of community – and the importance of capturing it professionally. If you're organising a corporate or charity event and want powerful imagery that tells the story of the night, I’d love to help.

Well since autumn 2019 quite a lot has been happening as far as the big move was concerned, putting the finishing touches in February to my new studio. This is a more compact version of my former space but works very well. My vast archive of film images is now at another humidity controlled location that allows fast retrieval. All systems of digital image storage have been updated with new kit also to allow more mobile editing or indeed working from home. All in all a complete rationalisation of my environmental and financial footprint to take Trevor Burrows forward to offer an even better service to my many clients that I have built up over the years. Provision has been made for the studio to be Covid-19 secure as events have unfolded. Ready to take on the future!

It was one of the largest national commissions for last year and the preceding year for NatWest/RBS to refit many of their branches nationwide with large panoramic images of the area. I was pleased to be commissioned to shoot and supply images in the Westcountry for this demanding project. Shot and then stitched together as large panoramics, some were made up from as many as 54 separate images! It required early starts and late finishes and that was even before the editing!! Great to see the finished results a few months later...smiley face!

Whilst Trevor Burrows has offered for many years images of Plymouth and the surrounding area taken from on high from a helicopter, he can now offer a more down to earth drone service using a Matrice 600 professional UAV for stills or film via his partner company. Trevor says that certain types of commission are uneconomical for a helicopter or too low - most drone work has to be below 400ft. As a result this makes them ideal for land or property surveys, marina overviews, hotel exteriors, golf courses, film/tv, outdoor events and website intros.

The use of a UAV requires that the operator is CAA qualified and has the relevant licences. They must also make a full risk assessment prior to any commercial flight and be fully insured. Free consultation on request...

Pleased to say that this high profile company used me back in March to shoot their whole bakery operation and then decided to use the images as large canvases on corridor and office walls. The canvases were provided to a tight deadline and are an invaluable insight into the production process from many angles for visitors to the cutting edge facility in Callington that incidentally sponsors Help for Heroes

Delighted to have attended the HLM Architects Summer Party this year in the very building I photographed for an Award the previous year - the Plymouth University Marine Station at Cattedown in Plymouth. In fact the building won the prestigious Michelmores Property Awards for Commercial Property under £5 million 2015. Needless to say it was down to the photography!!

Fine Art repro requires attention to detail - literally - on all fronts. I'm delighted to say that Colour Checker Passport is used by myself in the studio and it allows me to offer an added layer of correctness when making Fine Art reproduction files no matter what the colour profile of choice. It allows calibration of my lighting with a file that is then added to Lightroom for final output. Always committed to best practice at Trevor Burrows Photography!