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..