College of West Anglia Equine Centre

Today I again did some print on site photography at the College of West Anglia Equine Centre. Here are three of some of the falls that take place whenver showjumping takes place.
There were no serious injuries and it was only the riders pride that was bruised. All three got back on and rode making sure they then jumped a fence before leaving the arena.

It was a lovely sunny but cold day so lots of coffee was needed as I stood in the arena. They are a great bunch of riders always encouraged and supported by staff and helpers.

The next event I will be covering will be dressage in a few weeks time so unlikely to have these sort of spills then.

My daughter Sarah did the printing and selling for me even though I think she was feeling the worse for wear after Carleys birthday party last night so thanks to Sarah for her help and also to Marian for putting some of the images on my website so that more sales can be made.

My landrover Discovery ( well I think its mine as Sarah always seems to have a reason to "borrow" it ) had a dog guard fitted yesterday which turned into a 3 hour job to get the fixings correct. Thanks to Chris at Fenlandrover for his skill and patience.

Will post again soon

Rob

Sarah said I hadnt posted for a while

Hi

Yes I havnt posted for a while as I was reminded by my daughter this morning so thought I had better do so!! I also decided to post a picture of her above.Well its been busy both with work and commitments to some of the organisations I belong too. There has also been an addition to the family in the form of a Land Rover Discovery bought in theorey to tow my granddaughers horsebox. I say in theory as my daughter has managed to "borrow" it a lot and I know she hasnt been towing with it. She has named the Discovery "roxy" so look out for news of her adventures. I just hope she doesnt need to use the winch on the front or the snorkel for driving through deep water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I, in the meantime, have been offering my framed prints for sale at Lakenheath air base, photographing equine events mainly at the College of West Anglia Equine Centre and last evening set up my mini studio for the Mayor of Chatteris charity ball. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and many bought pictures of themselves dressed in their finery. I have also started another photography course for patients aand staff at Cavel Hospital P/boro and a junior photographic club based in March. Oh and photographed a piece of equipment for a company at 8:30am so that the images could go straight off to the printer for brochures not my best time of the day but then work is work whatever time it needs to be done.

I will endevour to post more regularly especially if Sarah reminds me lol

Rob

Flashing

No not the dirty mac type but the studio flash I use. I use Bowens flash both in the studio and when needed at "print on site" and when doing promotional images for organisations. Unfortunatly the large studio ones have developed a fault so are off being repaired and I hope to collect them this week. The smaller, in size and power, were used for my two studio shoots last week and were really great the only down side is not all my light modifiers fit the smaller units but I am gradually getting ones to fit.

I have been working on a number of illustrated articles for magazines and here are two images from one on trees.

Good news on the Cavelle Centre sessions I mentioned last time in that they have booked me for another four sessions starting this week. The wedding bookings are starting to come in again as are the Balls and Proms. My new sign has also arrived for the studio and am just waiting for suitable weather to put it up, and of course a couple of people to help me as its 8ft long and 3ft wide.

Finally congrats to Marian Savill on her acceptance in a number of exhibitions both in the UK and the USA.

Another appology

Yes its been months since I posted last and I really dont know how time has flown. The "print on site" facility has been popular, I done charity balls, lots of equestrian events and even photographed children meeting santa, this was on Christmas eve so he had to rush off to deliver all the other presents as part of his day job!!!!!!!. I was asked to start a junior photographic club and held the first get together which was fun. Between Christmas and New year I hosted an artist fun day at my studio for members of Fenvac and their families, It was great to see the children trying out all sorts of art. The course I ran for Arts & Minds at the Cavell Centre which is a hospital for those with mental health issues, has now finished. It seems to have been popular so may well be doing another one later in the year.

Littleport Pony Club Christmas Fun Day

Two images from the new junior photographic club

I hope you all have a wonderful creative new year

Sorry its been so long

Hi

Sorry its been so long since I posted last but time seems to have disapeared so fast this year. Having done a couple of joint exhibitions, an open studio event and covered some varied events including BMF Tail end which was great as was CLA Game Fair.


I have purchased equipment for "on site" printing so people can buy the mounted prints on the day so will be covering Proms and Black tie events as well as Equestrian Shows. My daughter staffed the printer and did the sales for me at our first proper event which was showjumping at Forest Edge Equestrian Centre in Norfolk. She did great so a big thanks to her.


Oh nearly forgot we have also had the launch of the charity calendar I shot and the local paper gave us the front cover and page 3 (approropraite I guess given the subject matter lol )


I promise ( yes I know I have promised before) to regularly update this blog so bear with me.

Here are a couple of the images from the calendar which are on sale now

Music and Dance Wisbech

Wisbech is holding a Music and dance festival tomorrow and sunday where Fenvac has an art exhibition in support of their event. Marian, Heather and myself have spent today setting up the display boards and hanging the work. We will be staffing the exhibition for the two days and I will be photographing the event for the council.

Here are some of the images I have hanging, some of which are "straight" and some altered in photoshop.

A number of the instruments I photographed are very old and are part of the Chatteris Museum Collection so thanks to them for the loan.

I have included a number of ballet shoe shots in the exhibition and a thanks to Lou for getting them for me

This final image is not in the exhibition but was uploaded by mistake and has nothing to do with music and dance but as I dont Know how to remove it I will leave it here lol

Journeys Exhibition

The joint exhibition I am holding with Marian entitled "Journeys" is currently running at March Library. Thanks to all of you who attended the " meet the artist" evening on tuesday. Some of you who live further afield have ask that I post some of the other images on which I have added some of my prose. This is something I have been thinking of doing for a while and after seeing the photographic work done by by niece Holly for her coursework I decided to do my own version and this exhibition seemed the ideal time to do it. Thanks to all of you who have been touched in some way by my words.

Holly was with me when I took some of the images and it was great to hear her critique of my work.

The images here were taken as far afield as Neath, Mumbles, Tenby,and Fenland.

I do hope you enjoy the images and the words, some images were inspired by the words and some words were inspired by the images