Catching Up.....Part 1

Well, that's summer 2009 done with! It seems like only five minutes since I did a blog in March on the start of the formula 1 season, and here we are in October with a new British World Champion, I dont like to say I told you so but.....! I'v photographed some great events, both sporting and weddings as well as some fun PR assignments. I'm going to catch up with the weddings next week in another blog, but I thought I'd post a couple of images from two jobs from last month.
I started September with a trip to Wales to photograph the school games. The games bring athletes of school age from all across the UK representing their region in a sort of mini world championships. It was really impressive to see how seriously they are about it and the level of organisation was an eye opener, they even produced a mini daily paper reporting from all the different sports! London 2012 might come a bit too soon for most of the athletes here, but you could see there are some very talented kids coming through for 2016 and beyond!
Another assignment was much closer to home, a job at Margate football club with the FA Cup. E.On, the competition's sponsor, bought the cup to Margate to promote Margate's first round qualifying game with Sutton United. The brief was to capture images of the goalkeeper as this year they are putting them in the spotlight, and Margate was a good choice as their manager is the former Everton and Wales 'keeper Nevil Southall. I got a nice set of pictures, Margate were dumped out of the cup after a replay. Oh well, there's always next year!