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.

Education,education, education!

Here are some academic images shot for press and personal purposes over the last week.

My wife graduated from Abertay University on Thursday. Here is a shot I felt worked quite well.

I then met up with Perth Academy rector Charles Kiddie as he held a dinner for his retiral and held the school's award ceremony at the Perth Concert Hall.

And teachers retirement.

A quick link

For those who dont know, I teach digital photography classes at Perth College. During the 8 years I have taught there there has been a wide range of students in terms of photographic ability. Some come on the course to learn basics about digital photography and there have been others who are obviously good photographers before they come on the course and are just looking to smooth off any rough edges they have. One such person was Tom Fincher who has now progressed onto creating his own website of landscape and macro images he has taken recently. Go take a look.

http://www.tomfincherphotography.co.uk/index.php

There have been a few more that have also shown a talent and I do not mean them any dis-service by ommiting their name here. You know who you are.

Pushing in another direction

Recently I have been really busy as the three areas I work in have started to clash and combine this with home life it has been difficult to have much spare time. The end of June is where I am trying to get to as suddenly I will free up much more time - Perth College classes are over and my sister's wedding (I am giving her away and organising the stag do) will be over.

The plan for this summer is to become much more efficient at portraiture and hopefully pull in more work in that area. Here is something i produced recently of my son Kieran. Used two lights and processed in Photoshop to acheive a look I was after..

Calling all present or ex Perth College Digital students

This is a request for any ex or present students of the Digital Photography classes at Perth College or surrounding learning centres.
I have started a Facebook page for digital photography in Perth where you can post photo, keep in contact with others, ask questions etc, basically an extention of the courses.
Here is the link to the website. If you are not a Facebook member you will have to sign up before joining.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=75961848324

Thanks
Shaun

Recent images

Here are some of the images I have taken over the last month.

The Matthew Dance Academy put on a show for the public at Perth Theatre on Friday night. Pictured are all the preformers before the show.

Images from Perth Races over four meetings.


Images from Ladies Day on Thursday.





A Pre-Wedding shoot for Chrisann and Jamie at Birnam/Dunkeld





Some football

And finally following on from last post here are some of the images from the shed fire. I think its the best set of news images I have taken but unfortunetly the paper never used them as they couldn't develop it into a usable story.

Fire

A fire I happened upon travelling back from covering football this afternoon. I will post some more once the paper does something with them.

Basketball and football images on Youtube

This is action from this years Chairman's Cup final. I am experimenting showing it in Youtube format. A link to my Youtube Channel is now on the right of this post.

And some old football

A bakers dozen and thanks Big Bob

Here are some images from Saturday. Thirteen as the title suggests with the 13th not being planned or as straight forward as it should have been. Pictures from Fair City v Barnhill, Jeanfield Swifts v Kirkcaldy YM, Roselea v Letham and basketball from Perth Phoenix Cadets v Dundee Sharks.


So the 13th image was one which was not planned. I am currently selling off some equipment to update what I currently use.This left me without a wide angle this weekend but I felt it was not a problem as the sports could be covered without one. When shooting the basketball they had a cheerleading team which I felt may be of interest to the paper. With no wide angle I was helped out by Bob Falconer who happened to be there because his daughter was one of the cheerleaders (he normally would go near a basketball court:)) Bob had a 24-70 which he let me borrow. Five minutes to make a picture it was a struggle to fit them all in as they wanted to show some routine in the photo.(Thanks girls). This is the image i got, not the best I've ever taken but I was surprised to achieve that. Images will appear in this weeks Evening Telegraph.