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.

Saturday

Some images taken for press on Saturday. Three games in 2 hours. Much more straight forward than the previous week.

Jeanfield Swifts v Thornton

Luncarty v Ballingry

Perthshire v Murrayfield Wanderers

A little luck and putting yourself in the right place.

On Saturday I was covering Junior football for the local newspaper. The plan was to cover part of the game being played at Bankfoot and then head down to cover the second half of Kinnoull who were playing Dundee North End. Well that was the original plan. I had another job to do first and set off for Bankfoot arriving at 2.40pm thinking the game kicked off at 2.30pm. Unfortunetly no one had told me the game had kicked off early due a wedding (one of the Crossgate players getting married). The game was finished when I arrived and I left with no pictures.

Change of plan - arrived at Kinnoull, shot last 10 mins of first half and began shooting the second with the knowledge that I would now have to also cover another game in Scone (15mins away with Saturday traffic) in order to have enough pictures for different editions of the newspaper.

This is where the luck set in. Kinnoull scored within the first few minutes of the second half giving me a celebration shot for the paper.

Then it was off to Scone where I was hoping to catch the last 20mins of their game against Newburgh. Got to the game and the score was 0-0. In the last 20 mins Scone went 1-0 up only to be pegged back 1-1 courtesy of a disputed penalty and then Newburgh scored in the last couple of minutes to steal the game.

Sometimes you get lucky and sometimes you have to be in the right place for the luck to happen!

Struan

The past week

Some images shot this week for the local papers. Have shot a lot of Junior football so it was nice to shoot some opera tonight!

Okay heres the football.

Erin's first birthday

My daughter Erin celebrated her first birthday this week.





Just started walking, talking and much more..

Peaks and troughs

An action packed couple of days shooting horses at Perth Races. I spent Tuesday covering the meeting from a trainers/stables point of view. The stables in question are owned by Alan and Lucy Normile. On Tuesday they had two horses running and the aim was to cover them from start to finish, so I started at the stable photographing head girl Libby Brodie and stable girl Caroline Barclay preparing the horses for the race (they were a joy to work with though I'm not sure how much they enjoyed being in the limelight) then onto the racecourse. Access to areas of the racecourse can prove difficult, even with a press pass, but thankfully I got what I needed. The Evening Telegraph ran the story on the Wednesday which I was pleased with as it was my first feature I had pitched.


Here's how it looked.

Also on the Tuesday tragedy struck as Mighty Fine, a 13 year old grey, died of a suspected heart attack after winning his race. He had ran a good race minutes before. I think his trainer Paul Blockley summed it up best.

"This is a tragic end to a fantastic horse. At least he died doing something he enjoyed and has gone out on a high."

Here he is winning his race.