Sport
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Racing on the Mersey
On the basis that I’ll try anything once, I decided to try a little water sport fun. We have visited the Mersey River Festival a number of times over the years and tended to stay in the docks to capture pictures of street performers and the like. This year we went along purely for the water sport, to try our hand at something new. There was plenty of opportunity to get to the front of the queue to photograph the Zap Cat racing – in fact, there was no queue. Taking up position near one of the buoys, soon we spotted a fellow Wigan 10 member, whom we were not…
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Equestrian Event Photography
Somerford Park I would like to dedicate this page to the memory of 24 year old New Zealand Rider Tom Gadsby, who suffered fatal injuries at Fence 4B on 18th August 2013, when he was involved in a rotational accident; his horse, seven-year-old skewbald gelding, The Drove, fell on top of him, crushing Tom to death. The Drove was uninjured. There are no photographs of Tom Gadsby in my selection.
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Proper Photography :-)
Well, photography doesn’t get much proper than photographing proper rugby 🙂 Today (26th May 2013) I was privileged to accompany Leigh Centurions’ Official Photographer to photograph a home match against Keighley. The Centurions came in with a 62:12 win and, as they were scoring their tries, I was trying to get to grips with sports photography. I’ve just picked out a few of my favourites from the day to show here…but most of all a big thanks to Maurice for putting up with me…I had a really good day! even though I didn’t get any competition winners 😉 The shots are just colour corrected and cropped…a few need a bit…
