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Olympic swimmer Duncan Scott
Early start to shoot some portraits of Olympic swimmer Duncan Scott up at Stirling University just before he was competing in the British Championships this week.
Congratulations to Duncan Scott who has just qualified for his third Olympics…amazing achievement!
Bit of hanging around while he trained but at least it gave my cameras a chance to demist in the pool.
WW2 Polish war veteran Ludwik Jaszczur
Yesterday on a completely different job, I spotted Ludwik a ww2 Polish war veteran, as I have a great passion for ww2 history I started chatting to Ludwik, turned out he fought at the battle of Monte Cassino.
I had a great chat with him and he was more than happy to pose for a picture.
let us not forget the great sacrifice made by all these men who fought at a very young age during ww2.
Now 93 Ludwik still runs his own shop in Edinburgh, repairing zips and locks for leather handbags.
The Impossible Row!
As a professional photographer you get to meet and photograph some amazing people, yesterday was one of those days when I met Jamie Douglas-Hamilton who plans to row from Cape Horn in South America to mainland Antarctica across Drake Passage, considered the most dangerous ocean crossing in the world.
Noel Cowards Mad Dogs and Englishmen comes to mind!
The Impossible Row, no one has rowed this far South before and crossed the Drake Passage by human power alone. Not only can seas reach up to 80 foot in the Southern Ocean but the crew will be rowing against the current. Jamie is the only British member of a team of six who will row in 90-minute shifts around the clock, with little to no sleep for 24 hours a day for around three weeks in cold to freezing conditions.
And over Christmas so no roast potatoes for Jamie!
As Jamie said “should be fun” …All the best to him and the rest of the team.
The expedition is being recorded by the Discovery Channel, which is sending the aptly named Braveheart vessel to follow the journey, however the boat will offer no support or supplies to the athletes. The expedition can be followed online with updates on Twitter at @actiphwater and @discovery.
1000 portraits!
Deep breath…
My client in Edinburgh has two sites with over 1000 staff, and they wanted them all photographed!
The photography was straightforward enough, head and holders with a white background.
The challenge here was to make sure all the images corresponded to the correct people to be loaded on to my clients system for future reference.
I devised a simple system with my client, which involved excellent people skills and a few large boxes of chocolates!
I had broken down all the staff into 8 days 4 days each week, and then organised them to come down at set times, with a half day at the end of each week for any ones I had missed.
I edited and named all the images each night that way names and faces would still be fresh in my mind.
Turned out to be a great shoot meeting a lot of nice people, and a big thanks to Emma & Leigh for all there help and supplying me with plenty of coffee!
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