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football photography
Six of my seven Wembley match applications had been flatly rejected by UEFA over the course of the tournament. But of course I applied for the Final, Italy against England, because I could. My chances were incredibly slim, to photograph what would be the biggest football match of a generation, the biggest match I would […]
The England v Wales friendly international was a game I applied to photograph without much hope. Places are strictly limited in the covid world, and my application had been unsuccessful for the last Wales home game. It all feels like a lottery, and sometimes it literally is. England v Wales – the background It wasn’t […]
Last weekend I went back to grass roots football, seeking the next Jamie Vardy superstar graduate from amateur football. On reflection that may have been a bit overambitious. This was, after all, the standard I had played at several years ago, and I was never very good. A number of players at this level seem […]
Football photography sometimes seems like a ridiculous, unprofitable and sentimental enterprise. It’s incredibly competitive and massively popular, the marriage of two common passions: football and photography. Lots of people are obsessive about both. Canon and Nikon are two of the most dominant brands in the world for a reason. There’s often the idle thought that images […]
While I regularly shoot professional football for a number of sport photography agencies across Wales and the West Country, occasionally getting some published in the press, this match gave me the chance to shoot for Composed Images, and share a gallery of my own. Sadly I wasn’t positioned brilliantly, with most of the key action […]