With a new year fully underway I decided why monkey with tradition, so here comes the customary new year look-ahead to what the upcoming year may have in store for all us Eventing fans.
We have just passed the 200-day countdown mark to the opening ceremony in Tokyo, with Olympic fever sure to set in if it hasn’t already. “Who’s on your team?” will surely be asked several hundred times as early season events get underway.
I’ve picked my team….
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There was only ever going to be one contender here wasn’t there - Gary completing Badminton
Read MoreThe advent of digital has been seen as a great technological advance, access to endless images online is a revolution, but has it made us all somewhat de-value the photographic production process along the way?
Read MoreThe season started and finished with Oasby, so off to Lincolnshire I headed with my now located towing eye (I was a Girl Guide, be prepared and all that!). Autumnal back-drops and the last chance to see the Eventing family this side of the winter solstice beckoned……..
Read MoreIt has been a complete privilege to be at Burghley Horse Trials - having been going as long as I can remember, taking my little camera and getting some cherished but amateurish snaps - to walk into the main arena on Wednesday with my media tabard on was a bit ‘of a moment’.
Read MoreWow. What a week.
It has been a dream of mine to cover a championships. And this week my dream came true.
Read MoreSitting here in the city centre with rain spattered windows and a howling gale, its hard to image we are in the middle of the Great British summer. Or if you’re more cynical maybe this is the perfect reflection of the Great British summer.
Read MoreRead MoreI can not stress enough to those aspiring photographers out there, believe in yourself and keep going. You will get to your Badminton.
On writing this the postman has just been and delivered the most exciting of envelopes. To everyone else I am sure it just looks like a normal white A4, if a little crinkled by Royal Mail. But to me it was the culmination of a lot of hard work, 1,000s of photos and a sprinkling of courage.
Read MoreWith the sun starting to poke its head out from behind all the grey winter cloud and the monumental milestone of it just about still being daylight when I get home, I can happily declare that the Eventing season must be just around the corner.
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