Being a Premier League Club photographer
December 22, 2025
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My working agency are club photographers for Premier League Brentford FC. Thus when Brentford visit the clubs in the North West of England I often get asked to help the club photographer at those games.
The difference in the experience is huge. For a start, the access within the stadium is greater. You can get into the stadium earlier than the oth...
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Photographing Indoor Tennis
September 22, 2023
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The Davis Cup at the Manchester Arena in September 2023 was my first effort at photographing indoor tennis. On arrival the venue looked superb with the tennis court bathed in good light - just what photographers want to see. I had a super court side seat in full view of all the action. It was a different story when the action started. Inside the wh...
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Photographing the Commonwealth Games
August 19, 2022
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A two week international multi-sport event spread over several different venues can seem quite daunting as a photographic challenge. However, there are dedicated media suites, manned by very competent helpers at every venue designed to help you succeed. The communications technology also works extremely well with one wifi password enabling you to g...
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Night time Football under Floodlights
October 01, 2021
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Night time football presents its own set of photographic challenges particularly as you go down the leagues and the quality of floodlights deteriorates in terms of output. At Premier League level the floodlights are usually superb, they basically turn night into day and you can shoot quite easily and well within the capabilities of your camera sett...
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Photographing fans protests
May 04, 2021
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It pays to know your patch, have a sense of the crowd and the strength of feeling about the issue underpinning the gathering. The supporters protest at Old Trafford against the ownership of the club by the Glazer family is the only such event that I have ever photographed - so I claim no expertise at this type of photography.
Being a regular at...
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