We thought the fresh baking and the decor (a hybrid of Australian paraphernalia and rustic English farmhouse) would be great to film. We wanted to capture the essence of Dee Light Bakery, harking back to the days when you knew your bread had been baked that morning and your local was for the community and not part of a franchise.

Beautifully filmed by Ben Clowes who had to be force-fed a freshly-baked croissant at the 4:30am shoot.

Ryan Crotty, Ben Smith, Charlie Faumuina, Sam Cane, Luke Romano and Cory Jane led a few training sessions with the junior and U18 Dubai Exiles who were all stoked to meet their rugby heroes.

Even though the All Blacks had just finished an exhausting winter tour through Europe, they were great to work with and it was great to see them training with the Exiles.

Special thanks to our ever-epic cameraman, Simon, who shot this in shirt-sleeves at the Ice Bar.

Good luck for Sochi, Shelley!

We spent the day with teams who were competing to see how they would handle the aftermath of a natural disaster. It was a day of big emotions, some torrential rain and we were proud to be involved with such a worthwhile event.

rb create joined the competition winners and Quins at Surrey Sports Park. We (although not always our cameras!) were allowed to sit in on the team talks and watch the Quins train.

rb create became a bit engrossed in the action and our cameraman had to be reigned in to the sideline. Well worth it though - we have the up close and personal experience for you here.

Held in more than 140 cities and 50 countries worldwide, competition is stiff to win UK Entrepreneur of the Year. We are continually impressed by the calibre of finalists and inspired by the stories shared on ceremony night. It is also the one night of the year we get to wear black tie.

Coming straight from the victory parade through the streets of London, the Team GB athletes were still buzzing with excitement when they arrived at The Rib Room. Athletes present included Tom Daley, Lizzie Simmons, Anthony Joshua, Nicola Adams and Samantha Murray who all gave us a first-hand hand account of winning at London 2012.

We are proud to be associates with many high-level clients who were executing varied programmes over the three weeks of London 2012. Samsung, Deloitte, British Airways, Rio Tinto and IHG engaged us to capture the excitement and drama of their clients enjoying the Olympics.

Rio Tinto’s mines in the United States and Mongolia supplied the metal to make 4,700 gold, silver and bronze medals for London 2012. Chairman du Plessis gave the Olympic and Paralympic medals to London 2012 Organising Comittee chair Lord Coe to keep in the Tower of London’s vaults.

We captured the pageantry of the grand occasion and, since failing to make the cut for Team GB, made the most of our close-up look at the medals.

rb create wanted to do justice to the electric atmosphere of fans swarming beside billboards, banners and the sky-high wrapping around Wembley Stadium.

We extensively covered all angles of MediaCo’s advertising, including climbing onto the roof of a Range Rover to fix a camera atop a lamp-post for an optimum vantage point.

The result was an exciting, comprehensive time-lapse film of MediaCo’s branding opportunities at one of London’s most famous venues.

The location was the first surprise. This shoot took place in a ‘bubble’ - an indoor synthetic football pitch in an inflatable dome which our photographers almost deflated trying to get our camera equipment in and out via the emergency door.

The second surprise was the lack of entourage for either of the captains; just a PR rep from Man City making sure Vincent had the right kit on. There were plenty of people for behind the cameras though - at one point there was a cameraman filming a photographer who was taking a picture of an rb create photographer who was taking a picture of Chris and Vincent. At least we knew the day was being well documented.

Vincent was injured but still managed to copy all the rugby ball tricks Chris showed him. The captains posed for our photos while chatting and comparing rugby vs football.

The debate continues…

Para-cyclist Sarah Storey is one of Deloitte’s ambassadors for London 2012 and officially Great Britain’s most highly-decorated competing female Paralympian.

Born without a functional left hand, Sarah has won seven Paralympic gold medals (five swimming, two cycling) and smashed through 71 world records.

rb has photographed Sarah throughout the last 18 months and she is always good fun to work with. On this shoot a minor hurricane was hurtling through yet Sarah maintained her good humour and patiently posed until we had all her shots in the bag. It was worth it, Sarah!

British Airways had:
10 days.
32 workers.
2.4 tonnes of paint.
1 plane.

rb create had:
10 days.
3 photographers.
1 editor.
7 cameras.
200,000 images.

The British Airways painting department opened their doors to rb create, allowing us to station seven cameras in the hangar where one plane underwent ten days of stripping, sanding, priming, painting and polishing.

It was a great opportunity to showcase the time and planning that goes into repainting a plane, especially with a design that has been created for the Olympics.

>> Have a look at ten days’ work boiled down to a two-minute time-lapse.

Deloitte House held staff and client events in the run-up and during the Games, as well as projects with schools, charities and the local community.