The flying cocks of Wembley
From “bad-men-in-town” to just plain badminton. Oh the puns… So many many puns… Following the weight of last week’s work, it was quite a nice break to be sent to cover something new for me; the Yonex BWF World Badminton Championships 2011 at Wembley Arena in London. Regular readers will know of my complete [...]
Umpire State of Mind
They come for me when I sleep. Thousands of them. Attacking from all sides. Glowing in the darkness, they whistle past my head. With the instantly recognisable “thwack”, the Slazenger “Wimbledon Ultra-Viz” are out to get me. I wake from my dreams as the alarm chirps on the bedside table. Yes, I’m deep into coverage [...]
The day I shouted at a Wizard
***** THIS IS AN OFFICIAL WARNING – DUE TO TECHNICAL CONTENT, THIS POST WILL ONLY BE OF INTEREST TO PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO USE POCKET WIZARD TRIGGERS WITH THEIR NIKON CAMERAS – ANYONE EXPECTING THE USUAL STUFF PLEASE ENJOY A POST FROM THE ARCHIVE ***** Following a mind-destroying battle with technology to get my new Pocket Wizard [...]
That nagging feeling
Following on from my recent coverage of the ISU World Short Track Championships in Sheffield, last week I was sent to the Cheltenham Festival for my first ever taste of horse racing. Those of you who know of my previous experiences with horses on this blog will appreciate the fact that there isn’t a single [...]
Freerunning the world
In a further attempt to remind myself how out of shape I currently am, I volunteered to cover the World Freerunning Championships in Trafalgar Square. Having shot the preview for last year’s event at the Roundhouse, I was reasonably prepared for what to expect but seeing it up close was something else. A small portion [...]
Madchester? I’m f@*!in’ livid!
As many of you know, I LOVE football. Everything about it excites me, be it adding new parts to your kit, learning new grooves or finally nailing a fill you’ve been working on for a while… Erm.. Hang on. That’s drumming. Oh, FOOTBALL. That’s the one I don’t like at all. Pushing this from my [...]
Drunk ‘n’ dis Audley
Excuse the title but Friday night saw all round good egg Getty photographer Dan Berehulak have his farewell drinks before he heads out to India. With a slightly fragile head, I rocked up to the ExCel Centre to see a roll-call of chaps prepared to inflict a similar feeling on each other. Having only shot [...]
Walthamstow
With the closure of Walthamstow stadium now looking unstoppable, I went down to what could be the last of the week-night race meetings to celebrate this piece of London’s heritage. Opened in 1933 by William Chandler, the stadium is one of only four remaining dog tracks in London. Controlled by the Chandler family until today, [...]
The Lagerback endurance test
Another day, another press conference in the media tent in Lugano. It really is like some kind of mental test to see how many times you can shoot the same person with the same backdrop in the same tent saying the same thing to the same people and still try to think up something different. [...]
Cock, Arsene and smokin’ dutch babes
What better way to start the shooting of my penultimate game than with a bunch of cigar-chewing blokes in drag and a French man showing off his cock. Marvellous.. At least this time, not only were there goals scored (LOTS of goals, thanks to a formidable show from the Dutch team..) but I was also [...]
This one time at Swede camp..
Another day, another visit to the Swedish training camp for my daily breakfast of crusty bread with some kind of salami. Thankfully, I just discovered that the guest-house that I’m staying at serves fantastic food so my evenings are no longer spent searching the area for decent fodder. All talk today was about a bust-up [...]
Czech mate
My first of four matches arrived today and I was dumped squarely in the deep end of learning with remote goal-mouth cameras on pocket wizards and VPN-based remote editing software. If that means nothing to you, don’t worry, that’s the last time I’ll mention it. Suffice to say that the remotes didn’t work so I [...]
Swiss Chores
Anyone who knows me well will be aware of my huge “love” of football *cough* so being asked to head out to Europe for 15 days to cover the UEFA EURO 2008 event had given me sleepless nights for some time. A wonderfully stressful combination of visiting new areas, covering a sport I don’t really [...]
Live and Let Dive..
(AKA in at the deep end..) This weekend saw a return trip to my old home turf of Sheffield as I covered the 2nd FINA Diving World Series at Ponds Forge sports centre. It seems the chlorine gas exposure and relentless week-long shooting of the Manchester FINA shortcourse championships wasn’t quite enough to kill me [...]
