Halloween 1

With October 31st approaching the ghost and ghouls are beginning to decend on town so here is the first of no doubt a few images I will post, some are for press use including this.

Pitcairn Parent Council & Friends of Pitcairn School held their Halloween discos at Almondbank Bowling Club on Friday 26th October . Pictured are some of the 'ghouls' who attended the first disco for Primary 1 - Primary 3.

Erin and Struan at the local park.

Shooting in low light

Its getting to that time of year where the light is dropping fast in the afternoon. The first two images were shot this weekend on a 20D at ISO 800. Now check out the third image which was shot almost two years ago and you will see how far digital cameras have came in terms of being able to shoot at high ISO whilst avoiding the dreaded noise. Not sure what noise is? Then compare the first two to the last one and you will see the difference. Better cameras and professional lenses make a difference when shooting sports. Now just saving up for more!



First two images shot 20th Oct 2007. Canon 20D ISO800




Image shot 3rd December 2005. Canon D60 at ISO 1000

Who needs a spoon?

Erin discovering the delights of feeding herself. Her mum will be so proud!

Stopping Stan the Man

Yesterday I shot some football and rugby for the local press. The rugby was Perthshire against Peebles which ended with the Borders side winning 14-8. Perthshire had a couple of new players in their line-up. One of these was a large Samoan forward who came from Brisbane in Australia. Although I only shot 20 mins or so of the match it was fascinating to see what an impact this guy is going to make. On a couple of the occasions that Perthshire threatened the Peebles line it was left to Stan the Man to charge the Peebles defence with at least four of the borderers required to stop him. He is certainly going to add some impact to the Perthshire pack.



Why Stan the Man? Well despite asking four people what his name was no one seemed to know him as anything other than this. I eventually found out his name was Stan Fau.

Raising the bar

Up until now I have mainly concentrated on sports and now feel its time to push myself a little and have in mind a couple of features with a local interest. I don't want to say what they are at the moment but will publish images from them when they happen

This is a new direction for me so it will be a learning process which I hope will make me a better photogapher. One thing I don't get from my sports photography is being able to connect to the subject matter, so hopefully this will fill that desire in my work.

Until then here is a link to a slideshow by another photographer, Nick Adams, who has produced a great moving piece on a man down on his luck.

http://adamsvisuals.com/content/popup/Markhayes/index.html

A couple from the weekend

Kinnoull v Newtongrange Star


Kinnoull's Robbie Holden fires home their third goal against Newtongrange Star.


Kinnoull's Robbie Holden celebrates with Jamie Reilly after scoring his sides third goal against Newtongrange Star.