The weather wins again

Well another Sunday and another cancelled event. I arrived at Plum Park at 6:30AM to find a picture postcard scene, unfortunately this resulted in the cancellation of the event :(.

The good news is that Brian and Debbie from Plum Park have rearranged the event to the 12th, so all their hard work getting the course ready won't go to waste. Two weeks of very hard work had been spent getting the course looking A1, with all the fences spruced and polished, and a new water cascade on the Open course.

So hopefully I will see you all on the 12th

Darn Weather

Well I was all prepared and ready for the Goring Heath Horse Trials last weekend when I got a call from the organiser - there was standing water on the course, and with more rain forecast they had very reluctantly cancelled the event.

Luckily for me I hadn't set off, but I was still a bear with a sore head the rest of the weekend as I was really looking forward to getting outdoors again, after what seems like an age shooting indoors.

This weekend I will be at 2 events - The BSPS Area 16 spring show at Trinity Show ground Ipswich on Saturday, then at Plum Park Farm on Sunday for their spring Hunter Trial. It's still possible to enter the hunter trials so if why not pop along.

All the images from both events will be loaded onto My Event Photography Website - Ultimate-Images after the event.

Here are a couple of images from last years events at both the BSPS event and Plum Park. Nice sunny days - well it's good to dream :)

Goring Heath Horse Trials

Well the first British Eventing Horse Trials for me is nearly hear. I've been delighted and honored to be the official photographer at the Goring Horse Trials since September 2004, and in that time the event has gone from strength to strength. We were blessed with wonderful going and weather last season, but the weather gods are not looking to favourable this time around.

We have invested heavily over the winter to improve both the range of images we capture and increased the number of viewing stations in the trailer to ensure everyone gets to see the new images.

I'm particularly excited about the new kit, not only does is enable me to get angles I've not shot before, but I get to play with some new toys as well.... - It looks even better in the flesh


Below are a couple of images from last seasons event at Goring Heath

HIll House Cross Country Photo Call

I was very fortunate to be invited by Sara Trusting from Hill house cross country course to shoot their new feature fence being jumped for the first time. They had arranged for Nick Turner to jump the fence on his supremely talented Bay Gelding Rongotai.
http://www.hillhousecrosscountry.co.uk/
The fence (as can be seen below) will be used on the pre novice track, along with another new fence, a rather impressive chair. Hill house will be running a full BE Intro and Pre Novice event this season for the first time (26th / 27th July)The cross country track will be devised by none other than Philip Herbert - who designs the BURGHLEY course with the show jumping phase designed by Dave Conway. Hill house really is a fantastic venue and I'm really looking forward to be involved with both the BE event and the Derby House Open Horse Trials on the 25th May.

Very behind on my blogging

With all the effort that has gone into getting the new site live I have got very behind on my blog entries. Which is really bad, especially as it featured on my new years resolution list (along with eating less chocolate, and walking to the post box !!)

So as promised here is my image of the month for February.

A delightful little Shetland pony taking part at the Milton Keynes Equestrian Center clear round day during half term. A fun day was had by all, and I will openly admit that this was the first time I had seen a Shetland jumping, all my other experiences have been in the show ring. the little pony really did enjoy his day

It's finally LIVE

So after lots and lots of time and effort the new site is finally live.
www.ultimate-images.co.uk
I've also added a new address www.ultimateimageseventphotography.co.uk it ends up at the same site, but it gives me flexibility for the future.

So I'd love to hear from all my new users, it was live in time for the images from the Upminster Rugby Festival - which was a great day.

I'm still tinkering with various aspects of the navigation, so it may change, but the essential layout will remain, but I just want to "tweak" the site to the way it actually gets navigated.

New Website

The new website is coming along at a great pace. It's taken longer than planned, but that's mainly because I keep coming up with new idea's as the design evolves and I think I'm starting to drive my designer a little mad.

One of the hardest things has been to keep the quick simple navigation to the event images whilst expanding the site to reflect all the work i now get asked to do. I also wanted to bring the shopping experience more up to date and to be able to offer better discounts and order tacking.

I also wanted to have a portfolio of images for each of the areas that I shoot, so in addition to the regular navigation buttons, each of the images on the front page will open a portfolio page. All very exciting and well worth burning the midnight oil for

Here's a sneak preview of the new front page