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Ten years as a freelancer is a milestone worth marking. Employed members of staff might earn some small recognition from bosses and colleagues, but freelancers often just have to slap their own backs. So here is an honest, slightly indulgent account of the last decade. Ten years ago this month I was made redundant from […]
On Saturday evening Cardiff City played their first home match since the disappearance of new club record signing Emiliano Sala and his light aircraft pilot David Ibbotson. There were a number of tributes and an outpouring of emotion from the stands, players and Cardiff manager Neil Warnock. Since my first visit to the ground, the […]
On December 19th 2018 I took myself down the motorway for a short but intense day trip of London street photography. It had been a while since I’d visited and my feet had grown itchy for newness and difference. London is a properly big sprawling diverse city which I love, and one where I lived […]
You undergo psychological adjustments when you become a parent. One of the major ones concerns allotments of time, or so it appears to me. That is, how you allot your future time on this planet in your head, and where you are going in life. Mental adjustments as a parent For so long as a […]
My attention was recently drawn away from peripheral points of Cardiff’s skyline and towards the obvious ones. Or more specifically, one very obvious one. The latest and arguably most glaring addition to Cardiff’s ever-changing city centre skyline is… *no drum roll needed*… yes, yet another tower of student accommodation. The new 24 storey effort on […]
The tower of St Augustine’s Church in Penarth interrupts the skyline overlooking Cardiff Bay and can be seen for miles around. A small but striking blip on the horizon, the Gothic 19th Century tower quietly but identifiably sneaks into many images captured in the near vicinity. From the Garth Mountain to the north – another enchanting […]
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Wembley Woe for Tottenham
1st May 2018
by Mark Hawkins
A couple of weeks ago I took another late season trip to London to photograph a Tottenham match for Prime Media Images. Twelve months ago this trip was something of a personal homage to photograph a first and last match at White Hart Lane, the football ground of Tottenham Hotspur I had visited on countless […]
Welcome to the second part of this 2017 photo review of images uploaded to this site over the year. It takes the not very imaginative form of covering the 6 month period from July to December. If you missed the first part, you might want to pop back there before continuing. Or you might not. […]
Welcome to the latest post in an occasional series about features of the Cardiff skyline. Perhaps Wenvoe Transmitting Station isn’t the most obvious subject. It is clearly not as iconic as a Cardiff Castle, the Pierhead Building, the Senedd or Wales Millennium Centre. Nor does it have the modest natural wonder of Garth Hill. But for […]
Professional Event Photographer – Mental Discipline and Boringness Required
24th July 2017
by Mark Hawkins
Being a professional event photographer requires a specialised mental discipline and a certain boringness. Many photographers, and I’d wager a lot of people generally, consider themselves to be outsiders. We all understand life and other people in our own unique ways from the perspective of our own isolated consciousness, based on our own personal experiences. […]