I’m firmly of the belief that it is critical for professional photographers to shoot personal photographic projects. I’m not in anyway suggesting that they need to be charitable, life-changing, in South-America, only in Black-and-White, or using some vintage or toy camera. Just that they need to be divorced from an immediate or existing client, direct payment, and on the terms of the photographer within the reasonable constraints of the subject matter/sponsor.
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I just got back from an excellent trip to the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011. Having missed it last year due to paid assignments I was really looking forward to this year and again opted for the Friday, hoping for it to be slightly quieter, and I lucked out with the weather.
I recently headed down to Cornwall for a short break. However, I did still take the cameras, and a tripod with a view to taking some Cornish landscape photographs as a rest and reinvigoration from my normal subject matter – portraits, wedding and commercial work.
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.
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
With no wedding today and with bright and breezy weather here at Hill Head, Hampshire I took my camera down to the beach for some personal photography. With the tide going out I wandered down and perched on a wooden post near the shoreline and photographed some of the kitesurfers and windsurfers enjoying the wind...
