Here are a few of my favourite images from the last 12 months from various shoots and trips away. I have some new business cards on the way featuring some of these images so if you see me at an event please tap me on the shoulder and I will be happy to give you a card!
I hope you enjoy them….
Great colours in this shot of a beater on a shoot in the Chiltern hills. Nice to see such a smart beater with a matching tie and flag combo!
Shot on the West Wycombe estate on Horseman’s Drive, this gent eagerly awaits the birds coming over his head. I was delighted to get this shot in the bag, such a simple shot yet so effective.
One man and his Beretta taken on a driven pheasant shoot in Buckinghamshire. A great shot and the photo’s not too bad either!
A lovely shot grabbed at lunchtime of a couple of young keepers and one of their dogs. I think the dogs just spotted a sausage or is eyeing up the photographer!
The stunning plumage of the hen and cock pheasants captured in a cracking bit of sunlight on a winter’s day.
Not a bad drive for this chap considering its the end of the season. A great partridge drive on the West Wycombe Estate for one of the staff from E J Churchill shooting ground.
I shot this some time ago on a lovely little syndicate shoot in Wiltshire on the Wolfhall Estate near Marlborough. This little Border Terrier was a friendly little chap but must have a bit of an underbite!? Great little dogs for flushing out and general entertainment.
Last season I was lucky to meet this gentleman who has been living on the same country estate in Oxfordshire for the last 46 years. During the shooting season you can guarantee he will be out on the shoots walking the hedges with his stick tapping away at his own pace. I got chatting to him and learnt quite a bit about the history of the estate and its ancestors! This year I will try and get some more information from him – it’s gents like this that make the countryside such a wonderful place.
I was very happy with this image of one of the guns and his dogs (whom I met on the E J Churchills shoot) waiting for the birds to fly. I particularly like the composition of the image, the two spaniels on the left looking at me whilst the other dog is more interested in seeing a pheasant fly out of the wood. Just a lovely image of a contented man with his dogs!
The Sporting Picture 