Rugby woo hoo

I got the chance to shoot some rugby today (a portion of the second half). I have been looking forward to having an opportunity since it has been months since I last ventured near a rugby pitch due to the fact that I spend most Saturday afternoons shooting football for the paper. I was a bit rusty but was pleased with the performance of the 40D. So here are some images from Perthshire v Kirkcaldy plus some football shot over the last two weekends.

Football from the last 8 days

Images taken for press use in the last 8 days. Starting to see better results with the 40D I recently bought. These are from Amateur and Junior matches which I usually cover on Saturdays (some from Wednesday). With the season began the action is mixed with an array of team images, manager shots, signings etc. Good to be busy.

News images - hoping to improve

News images are not something I do alot of. The local paper tends to use me for sports images because they know I will come back with a half decent image. So when I do get the chance its good to be able to to something different. Now this is where the problem kicks in - for some reason I always have a sense of nerves when it comes to producing news images. I know I can take a reasonable image but never seem to be able to convince myself of that fact when I am actually setting the shot up and taking the image. Hopefully that will improve with experience.

Anyway here are images I took last week. The first few are from local fetes, a sixtieth wedding anniversary, a charity golf tournament, a fashion show and lastly a meet the St Johnstone manager Derek McInnes session.

Some football images from last 7 days

Perth Races

Sunday was the second of three meetings to be held in July. I have been doing pretty well with coverage for the Evening Telegraph with two pages dedicated to my images so far. Lets hope I can make it a hatrick at the end of the month. As a side note I also blew the shutter on my 20D so need to buy/repair camera so every image used in the paper helps.

Thursday 3rd July edition (images from Wednesday 2nd July)

Monday 14th July edition ( images from Sunday 13th)

Some other images taken..

Action from the Pony racing as George Innes-Ker bring home Clonross Star to win the first race on Sunday 13th July.

Kids at beach

Not long back from a short break down in Southport. Here are a couple of pics of the kids on the beach.