Billy Joe Strummer Bailey at Loftus Road

You may recognise this chap as Richard Bailey. A fellow within the coooperative of photographers and the creator of a multitude of stunningly beautiful images. I have a link to some of Richard's work at the foot of this post. Richard's photography may be beautiful and of course vitally important to put food on the table it being his full time work, but photography is just one of many of Richard's passions. His lovely family always come first and on Saturday, his eldest daughter Billy Joe was selected to be a mascot for Queens Park Rangers in their home game against Peterborough.

Richard Bailey

Billy Joe at the sponsors' board


The Loftus Road tunnel

The mascots were allowed a short knock around prior to kick off, a quick formal shot with the teams and referee and then as the pitch was cleared for the game to start, Billy Joe helped to direct the club's tiger mascot back to his seat.

Billy Joe's two siblings Daniel and Cydney were also at the game (and coincidentally my son Lance). Below Daniel celebrates the equaliser goal from QPR whist Cydney tries to follow in her father's footsteps.

1-1 Daniel celebrates

Another Bailey with a camera! Little Cyd.

Richard Bailey links:

"Knit Hats" and "To be a dad" are two of the books published by the Bailey Hart Publishing company which Richard runs with his wife , the CEO of Knit and Kaboodle Fiona is also a star in her own right.

http://www.baileyhartpublishing.com/index.html

Richard's web site:

http://www.richardbaileyphotography.co.uk/

Richard's Flickr site

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38055015@N00/

And finally... For information about the Downs Syndrome Association and future "Shifting Perspectives" exhibitions go to:

http://www.downs-syndrome.org.uk/

Christenings, Carnivals, Bicycles and Weddings

I can never work out how my peers get their blogs posted almost ten minutes after every event they cover. Whilst my own blog updates may or may not be of some vague interest to my clients, friends and peer group, the first priority for me is always the post production, album creation, web updates etc for our clients.

People like Crash Taylor and Zoe Richards (links at the foot of this post to their fantastic sites) not only to do all of this other creative and important work, but also manage to provide their followers with stunning blog updates and galleries seemingly effortlessly. I think I need to go and work with them both to see how they juggle their hectic lifestyles! Some call it espionage, but I prefer the term networking!

So since the last post on 15th August I have taken the images of the injuries sustained by a poor Italian cyclist when a builder's hoarding collapsed on him. The law firm commissioned me to record the damage done, scar tissue etc (and no I wont be posting these ones). the prognosis is good, so I would like to wish Samuel a full recovery.

On a happier note, on the 29th August I held another training day for a new second shooter on the cooperative called Martin Malocco. The weather was lovely and Martin, who normally shoots with Olypus kit, had a swift induction in the use of Canon DSLR's. He proved to be a very fast learner which was just as well given the 5 days notice of our next wedding in Hampshire (more of that later).

The following day, the beautiful Isabel had her Christening in St Mary's Church in Denham.

Isabel Grace Ivory

The day after that, on the bank holiday Monday 31st August, I travelled the short distance from home to record the Notting Hill Carnival. I've covered this annual event on most years since the late 1980's. By definition, most carnivals and festivals are so colourful, that my mono work takes a back seat, but this year, my favourite image (below) is one in the latter format. You may recognise the teenage women here from our January snow images. It's that Amy getting into my shots again with her sister Ella. We stumbled across them on our travels.

And to get completely up to date, on 4th September I travelled with Martin to Hampshire for the wedding of Rod and Teresa. This was the 380th wedding that TPS has shot since 1981 and it was a return to where it all started in Fareham, Hants. Horizontal rain had been forecast, but thankfully meteorologists lie like politicians and the day went very well indeed. Here are three of my favourites.





The venue provided a great opportunity to play with some off camera flash, whilst still having the premises illuminated by in-house lighting.

Rod & Teresa - 4 September 2009

So - those links I promised you all....

Crash Taylor: http://www.crashtaylor.com/

Zoe Richards: http://zoephotography.co.uk/