Studio diary of Hampshire photographer - Mike French
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Pat Cash returned to Lee-on-the-Solent for the tennis club’s centenary open day. Joined this year by Dan Lobb from ITV’s Daybreak and recently Loose Women, Dan was previously a UK top 20 professional tennis player, and played country tennis with the club’s Director of Tennis Chris Wilkinson.
Baby Hampshire magazine have used some of our images to illustrate an article on travel routines. Found in the summer issue, on sale from the 15th May for 3 months, the article is on pages 138 – 140.
More strong winds, and an ideal high tide for those employed as well as self-empoyed meant that the beach at Hill Head was again littered with windsurfing boards, and the green area behind it with kites.
This mornings session was for a little 17 day old baby boy. I had photographed him before, albeit in his mums tummy for a location maternity portrait some weeks ago and now this Hampshire newborn was the star of the show in his first solo photo-shoot. I met his mum at the Hampshire Baby and Toddler Show in Southampton last October and we have of course kept in touch so it was lovely to be able to photograph him today.
Well the wind from last night continued throughout the day for a rare bright, relatively warm and breezy day. With it being the weekend I knew that there was a good chance that Hill Head beach would be visited by some good quality windsurfers and maybe the odd kitesurfer and I was itching to get out and shoot some watersport – it had been too long since I got some decent windsurfing photography time in
I met Lianne and Iain early this Sunday morning for their pre-wedding shoot onboard HMS Warrior in the Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth. With crowds of visitors expecting on HMS Warrior today we arrived at opening time and made our way to the ship to avoid the sightseers and get some relaxed images onboard HMS Warrior which...
