Description
I am based in Belfast but travel wherever there are pictures to be taken
of a special person or people, place or occasion.
The galleries on my website show images from some recent commissions for portraits,
family groups and weddings and sporting, cultural and corporate events,
together with some of my travel and landscape work.
The home page images self-select, randomly, from the galleries.
Please contact me about commissions or purchasing prints.
Bob’s early passions were for watching steam trains and playing rugby.
He got his first camera as a 21st birthday present and, after a few
weeks practice, snapping the family and pets, started to create
landscapes and snatch sporting action shots.
Bob is a dedicated photographer of land, sea and townscapes, both close
to home in Northern Ireland, and as far away as time and funds will
allow. He has a keen eye for texture and detail, and a series of classic
images will be interspersed with abstract views and close-ups of
smaller features.
Over the past 30 years Bob has recorded rugby, soccer, gaelic football,
cricket, hockey, swimming, athletics, boxing, gymnastics, marathon,
archery, target-shooting, rowing, sailing, water-skiing, motor racing,
motorcycling and powerboat events.
In 1990 he was the first (and only) amateur photographer to win the
title of Northern Bank Sports Photographer of the Year, and was Northern
Bank Amateur Sports Photographer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Bob is a keen club photographer, formerly with Maysfield Camera Club and
Belfast Photo Imaging Club and now as a member of Ballynahinch Camera
Club. He was president of the NI Photographic Association from 1996-98
and is their current treasurer. He is the current Chairman of
Ballynahinch Camera Club.
In 1999, he was awarded the Distinction of the Photographic Alliance of
Great Britain for a panel of 16 slides. In September 2008 he was
accepted into the British Institute of Professional Photographers, as a
Licentiate, following his submission of a panel of 20 photographs from
recent weddings.
Bob uses the skills and techniques learned from his landscape and action
photography in his portraiture, family studies and event photography.
While he is encouraging his subjects to relax, and composing formal and
informal pictures, he remains alert for the un-planned opportunity, when
he needs to anticipate movement, compose and capture a shot in a
moment.
Bob started his photography career using a Yashica 35mm SLR. After a
series of Olympus 35mm cameras, he switched to Canon EOS 35mm. He
finally ‘went digital’ in 2004, with a Canon EOS 1D2.
He has a large slide collection that is (very) slowly being digitised…
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