Grand National

After months of cold and snow the sun finally shone,in time for Grand National race at Aintree.The obligatory turn out of WAGS perma tanned scouse girls and football mangers were amongst 80,000 attendees.
Katherine Jenkins sang half of the National Anthem(!) demanded she wasnt photographed walking only singing and the winning jockey Ryan Mania looked as if he'd been told his house had burnt down,photographers had to ask him to punch the air!

No horses died so all went well.For more photos of press events like us on Facebook

Floody Hell!

The weird weather in my last entry continued into July with floods in many  parts of UK! The small town of Hebden Bridge saw the worst of it ,after flooding 3 times! I went there on the third occasion,with many roads blaocked into the town it was a journey on foot for the last mile.
These pictures were picked up by The Sun ,Daily Express and Daily Mirror

Seasons

Bit late with update, topic of this post is the weather.March was a scorcher and I had pictures published,sunshine brings out the best in people and makes for good pictures,especially as girls wear less clothes.Tabloids love pictures of pretty girls.I found some students in Leeds having a break in  a local park.

 

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This was taken at a student area in Manchester this time,a girl enjoying a book amongst the daffodils.I used a long lens to compress foreground.

 Major contrast to the weather in April as Snow arrived!! A plan to travel to Manchester Pennines to photograph scenes were scuppered when wagons stuck in snow at Saddleworth caused 40 mile tailbacks,I drove to a nearby motorway bridge and got this shot of vehicles going nowhere.

A kind of magic

Something a little different for this blog entry.,a shoot with illusion act High Jinx. Comprised of Michael and Tamsyn.
I've known Michael for quite a while and this is the second set of publicty stills Ive done for his act,this time with new assistant Tamsyn. You-dear reader-may have seen them on ITV show Penn and Teller "Fool Us", I did and was suprised as I didnt knnow they were going to be on!
Most magicians PR shots are cheesy and boring ,so I try to inject some creativity into High Jinx's shoot. This was shot without flash to get the shadow effect.

  I make them perform their acts almost,in the lock up where they store their props.Makes things less static.

 The monster eyes were a little sensitive to my lights so we had to work quick on this shot ;)

 Fire shots are always tricky, especially when Michael has to wait for photographer to neatly frame a shot whilst his tongue burns! Thanks Michael lol.

So hopefully when they are headlining Las Vegas they'll hire me to be their in house photog! Until then they
are doing a Summer season in Blackpool this year haha, check their website link at top of this blog.

www.imageviewphotography.co.uk

Manchester riots

The spate of riots in cities throughout UK reached Manchester in August. With looting and expensive damage caused.For the media it was good photo opportunities for a press photographer but also risky with troublecausers obviously wanting to avoid being photographed, so having a camera around one's neck was risky!
Walking around the City Centre it was both sad and strange,seeing damaged shops and people wandering about with arms full of goods seemingly careless. Whilst general public tried to go about their lives normally.

Press Photography Yorkshire and Manchester

Social media for a good reason

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Very short blog post,if anyone read's this check out the very inspirational girl #alicebucketlist is currently top trend on Twitter.

World Naked Bike Ride

A manchester park on a hot day, people bound to be wearing very little,right? Well how about completely naked?

Mingling with students mainly soaking up sun a group of people all shapes and ages stripped nude to promote alternative methods of transport! Quite an eye opener even for a photographer! Bizarrely no-one seemed that bothered, clothed or un. More men than women were in attendance, and with various slogans painted on themselves.I odubt it was most comfortable way to ride a bike!!