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Honnington Country Fair Dogs

September 4, 2012 bubbleperm Leave a comment

Made the long trip over to the other side of Southborough last weekend to visit the Honnington Country Fair. There was lots to do and see and of course, being a country fair, lots of people brought their dogs along. I had my camera so the dog photography oppotunity couldn’t be missed. Lots of different breeds and shapes and sizes, so this was all good.

I’ll put a few more on my Facebook page so if you like what you see, please ‘like’ my page and share.

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Sunday at Crufts #1

March 11, 2012 bubbleperm 2 comments

Well it’s the final day and I must admit I’m getting a feeling of dog photography fatigue.

It’s Hounds and Terriers today and I’ve been doing the usual thing of arriving in the morning, entering one of the halls and working my way around, especially the showing areas.

Although I’ve got no brief or deadlines with this project, I’m trying to keep the coverage up to date with a blog post/pictures at roughly the same time each day so that all the people I’ve spoken to, photographed their dogs and given my card to, have something to look out for when they get back each evening.

The hits on the site have gone up and up this week and this is all good. If you are reading this, please can you pass this blogsite on to any of your friends, Facebook groups, dog-owners groups, dog businesses or anybody else who may be interested.

I’m writing this in the press room and there’s a few more people here today, I expect in anticipation of the Best In Show to come later. I’m going to shoot it from one of the press seats. Personally, I don’t find photographing in the arena particularly rewarding. Getting a little elevated can help (photographically) with a clean background, but you can be a bit far off at times so we’ll see. At ringside you can get a bit closer, but then you have all the advertising in the background and as I’m not shooting for a sponsor, this is pretty unappealing anyway.

The presentation shot of the winner will be handy to have but I expect like most of these things, it will become a bit of a bun fight. Yesterday I photographed all the people with cameras photographing one of the Best in Breed presentations and a guy said to me, “there’s the picture mate” pointing at the winners. I told him I thought the picture had been covered well enough by everybody else, but he probably did know best.

Time for a cup of coffee before venturing into the main arena, to sit with the other snappers, who no doubt will blast the hell out the proceedings from 50 yards away. I’ll try to pick my moments.