THIS BLOG IS FINISHING

This is the end of this blog. But for those who need a place to visit here is the link to where it is being resurrected.

http://shaunwardpress.wordpress.com/

Go pay it a visit

Football Today

Some images from the Junior and Amateur matches I shot today for the Evening Telegraph. Kinnoull v Luncarty and Jeanfield Swifts v Errol.

WOW What a wedding!

In October I have the honour of photographing the wedding of Ellen McBride and Alex Harrison. What's the big deal you may say. Well they are getting married while abseiling off the Forth Rail Bridge with the minister, bridesmaid and bestman. Hopefully if logistics allow I will also be joining them on a rope but either way this is going to be a cool shoot with the reception taking place up in Castle Menzies making a really unforgetable day.
At the same time they are raising funds for Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland so would be more than grateful to anyone who would put their hand in their pocket to support them and this worthy charity.
You can donate directly into their fund raising box by clicking on this link.

http://www.justgiving.com/ellen-alex-wedding-abseil-off-forth-rail-bridge/

Its that time again

This weekend was the start of my football season as I start covering the Junior and Amateur matches around Perthshire for the Evening Telegraph. Here are some images from a couple of the matches I attended on Saturday.

Press image

This is a couple of images shot for the Evening Telegraph. Holly Wilson pictured at a fundraising ceilidh to raise fund for a charity climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. Holly will be climbing the mountain to raise funds for Childreach International.

Some wedding work

Here is a link to some recent wedding work I have be busy with.

http://shaunwardweddings.blogspot.com/

What goes around, comes.......

I am a great believer in giving back. I also believe in the what goes around come around train of thought and that giving will always be rewarded in some sense not just in a material way.
My son attends a local nursery and I approached them with the idea of creating some unique graduation images for the kids leaving to start school after the summer.
All profit from the initial sales of these images would go to Rachel House a local charity.
I strongly believe that this would be a win/win situation for all involved - the kids/parents would get nice images to look back on, the charity would make a couple of hundred to help towards the work it does and I would benefit from the good publicity generated by such a move. It wasn't the easiest shoot to organise with having to run between two nurseries, shoot 25 kids, choosing a day when the kids attended and dodging the wind and rain but I would be lying if I said it was difficult.

So for all those photographers with quite spells in their year (most would have some time) I urge you to see how you can give something back to your community. As I said what goes around comes around and I plan to repeat the exercise next year on a bigger scale.