Shooting in Snowdonia

I was lucky enough to make the most of the sunshine and get out of the concrete of Greater Manchester and into the Welsh Mountains at the weekend. The primary aim of the trip was to get some shots for work and given that there is an embargo on what I was shooting I will have to be a little bit vague.

Either way I ended up at the mighty Pont Cyfyng on the Afon Llugwy with old pal Tom and boating model for the day, Mitch. For those of you who have a good memory I actually wrote a guide to these set of special waterfalls some years ago for Ceufad Magazine and I was nice enough to re-publish them here.

The light was something special. Given the time of year and angle of the sun, I'm not sure it could be repeated without some heavy cloud cover. This of course meant the challenge of shooting a colourful well lit subject against dark rock and with another colourful subject in white fast moving water.....errrrr what setting does that on my camera?

Tom was out shooting a new project related to the awesome new and improved  Welsh Rivers Guidebook ( follow them on Facebook and buy a copy here ) and at one point we had me shooting him, him shooting Mitch and Mitch shooting us both ( avec GoPro Hero 3 ). Twas a fun morning indeed.

I filled a memory card and got a couple of bangers. Just need to see if they will work in adverts and other branding fun and games.

Tom got this composite and yes I do like my Orange Patagucci jacket and didnt choose it because it matches the Lowepro logo...

Mitch dropping the Bomb and Tim Sadler being a Tog - Shots by Tom Laws

The afternoon was spent playing on a locals track just down the road, but that is another story.

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Floating Kayaks

Ok, these shots have been sitting on a memory card for ages. Taken with my old Fuji camera on a nice hot summers day in errrr, 2006? ( told you it was a long time ago ).

Anyway there are some nice shots of the Whitewater course in Nottingham ( Holmepeirpoint ). Featuring the top kayakers and Squirtboaters in the World ( including good old Ben White in his flamey Squirt boat ).

Click here to see them ( or click the image above )

You can lots more of my old kayaking shots here.

Whitewater Kayaking - The Playak Years

Found an old CD with shots I took on my old Nikon FM ( that's a manual 35mm SLR for you young folk out there ). All taken between around 99 and 2002, mostly for Playak, but also for Paddles Magazine and Playboating UK Magazine.

I had to stand in freezing water for 7 hours to get the shots of Hurley Weir....ahhhh memories!

Click the image above, or click here to check them out.