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| The start of the Folkestone 10, in Hythe. |
These three superb events were live very quickly, and we updated twitter
@uksportphoto and our facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/UKSportPhoto/ - so apologies for the Blog delay - it can take a lot of time to put the information, links and other data together in a readable format !(and those captions take a hell of a long time to write too)
Recent Galleries
In fact all of April's Galleries are all here -
http://sspimg.com/April-2017-races with the latest races all loaded, and future races all there waiting for your lovely faces !
Proper Archives
You can always go back to any of the races from 2017, 2016 and most of 2015 on our new gallery here, including almost all the races from 10 years ago -
2007 and once you have figured out what your race number was - searching is easy !
http://gallery.sussexsportphotography.com/gallery-list
Future races entries?
You can also see future races that we are covering in the months and weeks ahead on the
gallery - so if you're thinking of entering an event - just go and take a look - we put the race entry website links in the info there too, as well as a bit of a list here for you:
Do we do a good job ? (I'm hunting for that one quote for my year end review with the boss - well, not quite yet)
We regularly are invited back to cover races each year by race organisers, which is handy because that's important to how we feed our families. We like to think it's because we do a good job, but once you have taken the "that's a technically excellent photo of me" necessity out of what makes a good photography service we like to think it's these sort of things:
- Galleries up quickly, which are easily searchable
- Lots of photos from lots of locations around the course, at different angles (we usually take about 4-5 times as many photos as the other companies)
- Great value collections of all your images in a choice of resolutions (which can be ordered online)
- Choice of digital products from screen resolution available instantly to Original resolution finished carefully in photoshop and emailed to you
- Fast and stable gallery that can cope with post-race visitor hits and demand
- Professional team on the day that gets involved with the event, and has multiple backup systems
- Good project management in the back office, documentation and planning
- Easily contactable (advertised landline phone number)
- Technically good photos that you like - with timing and composition
- Marketing and advertising of future races for entries
- and of course our Pic2Go technology if sponsors want you to have your photos actually during the event
If you can think of what we do that makes our service one that we should be proud of - then reply to this blog and let me know ! (it will also cheer us up too).
Some pictures from the last three races then:
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| Always good to see a photobomb at the front of the field |
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| All going ok, even with a tri belt |
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| The long view along the front |
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| so far so good |
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| she's almost as big as his arms... |
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| talking of big arms |
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| borrow a friends arm |
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| concentrating too much for arms |
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| carry your friends over the line |
Meanwhile at HONC
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| up the hill |
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| riding out |
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| Take the corners at speed |
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| some lovely countryside lanes and hedged paths |
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| Big tyres downhill. At speed. Must check brakes... |
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| Air was had. |
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| a quick rinse instead of taking the bridge (in the background) |
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| Along the hills |
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| Leading the way across the bridge |
meanwhile at the purple patch Grand Union Canal half marathon, special spring addition with warmth and sun at a totally different angle to usual
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| Paced his friend around, but didn't want his time on powerof10 so took his chip off. Good of him to enter - many people we see don't think they need to when they are pacing their friends around races. |
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| going strong |
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| yes, he's from Dorking |
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| All good at the finish |
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| come on Mummy, you're late |
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| Always good with a bit of bling |
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| when the wind changes this will stick |
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| Almost got the bunny ears in the right place |
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| wired for sound |
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| enjoying the river bank |
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| The unknown photobomb wins again |
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| You too should run along with this view |
Just starting to get that mild sense of worry and anxiety for the rest of the week. Not because of the possibility of winning an award at the Running Awards (although thank you to whoever nominated me for the blog section, it turns out I have to know and get people to vote for me to even get into the second round, and it might have to be my full time occupation, like Zoella, or someone who's rumoured to be moving in nearby soon along with their 9 million followers, the neighbourhood is ruined I tell you), nor am I worried because they've never had a category for race or event photography, and neither am I worried for all the races we work with - because they are all fantastic anyway (that's why we work with them).
Am I worried about the London Marathon ? nope, not going to be there, what I am worried about is being at the Southampton Half, Full and 10k races - it's going to be massive, and amazing and if you want to see how busy it's going to be at the finish - then check out this race animation I've done
http://sspimg.com/southampton2017-route-animation
And I rightly get a bit nervous before the big and busy events ! It's good to have a bit of worry - then you check things - lots. With the added complexity of the marathon it's changed all the logistics from the last two years, plus we have a reversed and different route direction - so it's all as good as new again - another reason to be slightly concerned !! But I'm sure our teams experience will bring us through ok !
It's going to be a long day with 7 hours of continuous shooting - if you see our team (or me) frozen to the spot staring continuously down the camera into the distance without blinking a bit like a zombie - bring them coffee. Urgently. Thank you.
Until next time - very good luck to everyone at London too, and also to all the supporters at all the races - it's an absolute challenge to get around and support everyone. Sometimes it's best to just stick to one point where you can
fetcheveryone to one place.
laters
Anthony
