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Last weekend we covered the Riverside UTD Festival of Football at Wreake Valley Academy in Syston. Two days, four age groups, 48 teams, roughly 480 kids on the pitch across the weekend. Anyone who's photographed football in a youth tournament knows the actual difficulty isn't taking a good picture. It's being in the right place often enough that no team gets missed. Most festivals like this run several pitches at once, group stage first, then knockouts. One photographer can't

Event Photography in Leicester: What Good Coverage Actually Looks Like On the 1st of February I was at the Athena in Leicester covering Nashville At Heart, a modern country music show that filled the venue across a two and a half hour set. Multiple performers, a full band, a crowd that came dressed for it, and the kind of mixed stage lighting that makes a photographer's life genuinely interesting. It is a useful event to write about because it covers most of what event photog

What Aerial Photography Can Do For Your Project (And How To Get The Most From It) There is a moment when you pull back to altitude and the thing you have been photographing on the ground suddenly makes sense in a completely different way. A building that looked unremarkable from the street sits inside a landscape that tells a different story. A site that would take ten minutes to walk across is legible in a single frame. A coastline reveals a shape you could not have guessed

Shooting the CP Football World Finals at Loughborough University Last August I spent finals day at Loughborough University covering an international CP football tournament. The tournament had been running for ten days. I was there for the end of it, two full games: Germany against Netherlands in the men's third and fourth place playoff, and USA against Australia in the women's final. Athletes from four countries competing at the top level of their sport, on a pitch in the Eas