Barbers shop 1988

Inspired by Matt Matt Mendelsohn's piece about Mexican suitcases,(http://www.sportsshooter.com/news/1908) I decided to rake out my negatives. These are pretty much some off the first photos I ever shot as a young college student. It was a shoot at a local barbers shop in Perth on my first camera a Zenith with a 50mm lense. (that was my entire kit!)
I plan to go back and shoot this year as the barber who owned the shop in 1988 is now in his 50th year in the business and it would be nice to record more images 20 years on.

Some more images can be seen here http://www.sportsshooter.com/members.html?id=6385

Link of the day

This is a link to photographer Scott Strazzante's great diptych of a former farm and the new residential complex built on the land after the farm had gone.
Enjoy!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/cagwin

Pic n' Mix

Yesterday I covered five different games and three sports for press use. Here is an image from each game.

The first one I will be sending to the paper as the player, Alan Nicol, was saying how I should shoot him because he doesn't move very fast as he is getting on a bit.

Alan Nicol in full flight for Perthshire in their Division 4 match against Erskine played at Bells Sports Centre on Saturday.

Action from the quarter final stage of the Cadet Scottish Cup as Perth Phoenix took on St Mirren at Perth Academy on Saturday.

Perthshire Cup action between Bridgeton and Bridge of Earn played at Almondbank on Saturday.

Action from the Central League as Jeanfield Swifts took on Luncarty at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday.

Action from the Perthshire Cup sees the Balmoral keeper under pressure from Roselea players in their tie which was played at North Muirton on Saturday.

Question -How long is 90 minutes?

Answer - Not long enough.

Saturday was spent shooting for the newspaper. The majority of the images I shot were in the afternoon in which I covered 3 games all with the same kick-off time. This meant I spent just enough time at each ground to get the shots I needed before moving onto the next. One Saturday I am going to challenge myself to see how many I can fit into 90 mins.:)

First Premier league action between Kinnoull and Armadale played at Tulloch Park.



Then up to Murray Royal to get a couple of images of St Johns v Roselea in the Amateur league.

And finally onto Blairgowrie to watch them in the 4th round of the Scottish Junior Cup against Clydebank. I got to this ground with 15 minutes of the game left and the score was 2-2. It looked like I was going to get some good images of Blairgowrie stealing the tie with a late goal. As luck would have it Clydebank scored against the run of play and I was sitting at the wrong end of the ground. You win some and you lose some.

Also on Saturday Perthshire were playing against Gala in a Premier 3 rugby match which I would loved to have covered but sometimes you don't have enough time, so here is a link to Bob Falconer photos. Bob is a keen amateur who can always be seen at a Perthshire game because his son plays for them.(sometimes)

http://www.bobfalconer.fotopic.net/ click on the Gala game.

Boxing

Took a trip to the local boxing club to shoot some photos for the newspaper.

This is a simple shot of Bill Anderson of Perth Railway Amateur Boxing Club. Bill have been involved wth the club for 58 years. He started boxing aged 14 before becoming one of the main organisers. He has stood the test of time and is now in sole charge of the clubs activities from organising trainers to cleaning the showers after they have gone. A true local hero, if it wasn't for people like Bill these traditional clubs would disappear in this Playstation era.

Junior members of Perth Railway Amateur Boxing Club pictured during their training session on Tuesday night.

Perthshire v Ardrossan

Some images from the Premier 3 clash between Perthshire and Ardrossan played on Saturday. Perthshire won the game 48-12.

My 2007 (part 2)

( Part 2 of 3)

May
May started with a the first Sunday of the month spent covering 4 different Youth final. This would involve getting team photos, action from the games and the presentations. Due to the fact that the finals were being played at two different venues it would also mean lots of running around. A Junior Superleague match between Kinnoull and Hill of Beath was also covered this month. In contrast to this time last year, when Kinnoull were close to winning the Premier title, they were sitting at the foot of the table almost certain to drop down a league.

May also gave me the chance to shoot some international football when two U19 Euro qualifiers were played at McDiarmid Park. Scotland featured in both matches taking on Georgia and then Portugal and true to form just failed to qualify. This was valuable experience and the first time I had attempted to send pictures from the ground.
Added to this I also managed to fit in a day at Perth races for the feature I was shooting and the local paper.

Here are images from May.

June

June was a stand out month for me for several reasons - One was it was Gold Cup day at Perth Racecourse. everything fell into place I seemed to find great images and the weather was good. Sometimes you come away from a shoot and know you have good images beforeyou see then on the screen and this was one of them. Secondly I had decided to start a second long term project - this was going to be covering a year in the life on an organic stock farm. The farm was Loanleven which is local to where I live. In hindsight it was probably the wrong time to begin this as I have struggled to spend the time necessary due to other commitments. The last reason June stands out was a job I did for a family that had lost their son/brother who had died at a school sports day. They held a day to commemorate his life which I documented. This is as personal a job as i have done, it was satisfying to know I had done a good job for the family.

July

July saw me start blogging which I have found surprisingly useful as a way to standback and judge how I am progressing.

Shooting wise it was all about animals. I spent more time at the organic farm, covered a couple of days at the Racecourse and also spent the day covering a local horseracing yard as they prepared and raced their horses at the racecourse. This feature resulted in a full page sread in the local newspaper which was more than satisfying.

August

It was back to shooting football and rugby as the season kicked off again with some highland games and racecourse stuff thrown in for good measure.