Kart Racing At Rye House

I've spent the last two days photographing kart racing at Rye House in Hertfordshire. I'm a real petrol head, so I love this sort of work......usually. But on Saturday it bucketed (is that a real word) it down. At one point I had to stop taking pictures as my fingers were numb. I can't imagine it was much fun for the competitors either. Thankfully on Sunday the weather was better and I had a great day.

Green Pastures Nursing Home

I've been to a Nursing home today to take some photographs for their new website. What a lovely comfortable place to spend your last few years.

Short Trip To Ireland

I'm usually carrying loads of camera gear around all the time, I have too. So sometimes, like on holidays for example, I just like to leave it all behind and just use a simple little pocket camera. This is what I did on a recent trip home to Ireland, I just used Mandies little Olympus Stylus 790. No, I didn't have all the options that I'd have had with my Canon DSLR, but it was so handy just having a little camera that we could keep in our pocket rather than lugging around a big camera bag.
All of these pictures were taken near my home town of Navan.

Abseiling in Avon Gorge

Avon Gorge in Bristol is one of my favourite places to photograph abseiling. When the sun is out it's a wonderful place to spend the day, sitting on the edge of a cliff with an amazing view, meeting lots of new people and taking photos all day.
This is a two day abseil, talented freelance photographer Misha Ostromecki is covering it for me tomorrow when I cover another abseil in Oxford.

Steve & Georgina's Pre Wedding Shoot

I'm photographing Steve and Georgina's wedding in August. As part of their package I'm doing some engagement portraits for them. These photos can then be used on wedding stationary and the like.
The location was the Rollright stones near Chipping Norton. This is a place that they have fond memories of and they were quite keen to have the shoot there, an excellent choice.
Georgina had her fingers crossed that we would have some good weather. She certainly got that as we had very bright February morning sunshine.

The magic of Snow

Its amazing how different everything looks when it's covered in snow. There's a real magical feeling that you just can't beat. I always remember, and I'm sure it's the same for everyone, the days when I was a kid when we had heavy snowfalls. I remember about 10 of us all piled up on the upturned bonnet of a VW Beetle (complete with rusty jagged edges), charging down a hill at the quarry down the road. I'm sure the kids today will look back in twenty years time with similar memories and remember the year when it snowed for a couple of weeks.

One thing I noticed over the last few days that I taught was great, was the kids that were of school and the adults that were off work, they all came out to play for a few days. No X-boxes, no jobs to be done around the house, just lots of family quality time.