Wilson Trophy 2010
This weekend see the British Open Dinghy Team Racing Championships Sailing Event, The Wilson Trophy, taking place on West Kirby marina.Its an internatinal event with team competing from around the world. Its was an exciting occasion last year with a nail biting finish which happily saw the home team of West Kirby win. Lets hope for more of the same this year but some sunnier weather please. Pixsmiths will be there whatever the weather to photograph the event.
The sailing boats are ready to go and as always it will be a colourful event with the myriad of sails on the marina.
Uptodate news can be found here…and I see its headed by one of Pixsmiths pictures from last year.
Extreme Weddings
Visited Focus on Imaging yesterday at the NEC Birmingham. Didn’t get to buy anything but got lots of ideas and updates on wedding albums and marketing ideas. Saw a demo of creating slideshows in Lightroom which looked cool. Even cooler was a presentation by Uzair Kharzwala of a wedding in the ice hotel Sweden He use a new Nikon D3s and shot all using ambient light at extreme ISO with amazing results.
ice wedding
Urban Workshop in Liverpool
A couple of weekends ago Pixsmiths went to an urban workshop in Liverpool, arranged by Welshot Imaging and by Willliam Cheung FRPS a former editor of Photography Monthly magazine, one of the UK’s leading imaging magazines. It was a cold day but the rain managed to keep off.so that was a blessing..
We were a smallish group so all had opportunity throughout the day to ask questions of Will and get his expertise on setting white balance and settings etc…He also showed a slideshow of shots he had taken the previous day on a shouting visit. We started off at the Albert dock and headed off for the cathedral. The warden at the cathedral was alos a keen photographer and kindly allowed the group access to to the balcony for shots down the isle. Afterwards it was back down to the Albert docks and for some lunch at the Pump House. Afterwards more photography around the docks and over to Liverpool One as the light was setting – loads of photographic opportunities here. Some of us went on the big wheel to get some unique shots of Liverpool. By then the light was really going so tripods and long exposures wew the order of the day. It was back to the Albert Docks for some nighttime reflections.It was a long day and boy did the back ache the next day – really do need a lighter tripod with a carrying strap! but thank you to Welshot and William for the event. Below are just a few of the images taken on the shoot.
Other Side of the Camera
It was fascinating to see all the preparation of shots and interviews with the dignitaries – The actual ribbon cutting was re-enacted with the councillor holding the cut ends together again – guess the press photographer wanted another angle!
The TV crew must have been there for at least 2 hours …all that work with shot preparation and sound checks all edited down for approx one minute news slot.The TV report made a great job with using shots of the diggers at work in past weeks, shots of the new raised wall and also an aerial shot of the marina.
Lightroom Training
Interested in Lightroom training? Then Photographic Academy of Welshot Imaging are meeting at the Anglesey Arms Hotel in Menai Bridge Wednesday 29th July at 6.30pm.
John Arnold from Photwalkthrough.com with be there for the evening and he will be running the entire session. John will be going through the Adobe Lightroom programme. He will be explaining about keywording, metadata, using Lightroom as an organisational tool, as well as showing how Lightroom can help process your images. The keywording and metadata will be of particular importance to academy members who submit to Welshot Imaging stock library.
Numbers are required for the buffet supper – stop for at about 8.15pm. The evening will end about 10.00 – 10.30 so making this evening of learning extremely great value for money.
Cost for Academy Members is £10.00 Non Academy Members is £20.00
Please contact lee Iggulden:
Director and Photographic Coordinator
Welshot Imaging Limited
Phone: +44 (0)1248 670 693
Mobile: 07765461324
www.welshotimaging.co.uk
Wilson Trophy 2009 Finale
An exciting race finish this afternoon for the Wilson Trophy – a best of five between Larchmont from the USA in the blue sailed dinghies and West Kirby in the grey sails.
CONGRATULATIONS to the home team, West Kirby Hawks taking it to the wire in a 3-2 win on a bitingly cold windy day for the spectators. Just about managed to keep the hands from shaking to take some pics. See a selection in the gallery.
Wilson Trophy 2009
The diamond edition of the Wilson Trophy competition, a decider for the 2009 British Open Team Racing Championships , takes place this weekend on West Kirby Marina.Its a prestigious international dinghy team racing event, people from all over the world arrive – especially noticed a large influx from New York to watch one of 3 teams from the USA.
It a colourful and chaotic looking spectacle with 42 teams comprising 252 sailors ; around 300 individual races are sailed in West Kirby’s Sailing Clubs 24 evenly matched Firefly dinghies and 26 highly experienced umpires deliver instant on-the-water justice to the competitors.
The large marina with its position in the Dee estuary provides ideal weather conditions. Its a shame that the lake wall is currently closesd for repairs – and now the maintenace company has gone bust – but still able to get plenty of shots from the promenade. Its the round robin knock out day day, fast and furious races…who will win…we will have to wait ands see
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