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  • THE BROOKE PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
  • A Study Of Polo
  • Pearl Of Peace gallery
  • The Golden Stallion
  • Pearl Of Peace
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  • A 1.2 Metre framed print for Ricky Cooper from our recent shoot heading over to the man himself soon. Thank you @ricalino92 looking forward to more polo commissions this year.
  • This is Briac a beautiful race horse and here is the final photograph selected by our client. This photograph was taken at @timvaughanracing a big thank you to all the very friendly staff for making this possible.
  • A recent commission carried out in London. A beautiful dressage horse called Lukien.
  • Photographing the beautiful racehorse God Given today for a clients project. It’s days like this I know how lucky I am to spend my days with horses. Photographing this beautiful horse in the shade of an old oak tree while a field of mares and foals look on....nothing better.
  • I have been photographing horses for around 18 years now. People often ask where the flash lighting idea came from. Well for the last 27 years I’ve been a high end fashion & advertising photographer, and still to this day @mspstudio In this work my specialist area is controlled studio lighting, shooting for brands such as Pepsi, Lacoste, Silver Cross, Reebok to name a few. Then, once in a while I get a chance to combine the two.
  • Big thank you to @clickpolo for featuring my fine art polo photography project with Welsh Polo Captain @ricalino92 looking forward to many more polo photography projects. The online magazine features a short interview on how I got started in the world of Polo.
  • A photographic fine art study of PoloI was introduced to Ricky Cooper, Captain of the Wales Polo Team, over 18 months ago. I had an idea to undertake a fine art photographic study of Polo and I was looking for a player who was not only exceptionally skilled at the game but also understood my intentions of capturing the art of Polo like never before. I am not a sports photographer and so my approach is very different, I normally don’t capture motion in my photographic studies of horses either. What I was looking to capture was the intensity, beauty and the artistic shapes and lines it produces. There are so many interesting graphical elements to the game that really lend themselves to a fine art study. The moment I spoke with Ricky I knew he was the man for the job.  His enthusiasm matched my own to try something different and that’s exactly what the project needed as I knew it would not be an easy thing to capture, It would take time and patience. Both Ricky and I are very busy and so it took almost a year to finally co-ordinate our diaries for this project. The shoot took almost a full day, I wanted to capture some static images but also some movement which is exceptionally difficult to do with this amount of flash power. I only get one shot – one chance – each time the horse passes by so the pressure was on. There is a lot to think about and get right here and it is not just about the horse and the critical placement of the flash lighting. It is also about Ricky, the ball and the mallet all being in the right position in that 1/2000 second and It was one of the most technically demanding shoots I have ever done.Both myself and Ricky are very proud of this project and I am looking forward to getting more involved in the world of Polo in the future. @ricalino92
  • Bumped into Deborah Meaden today at The Royal Windsor Horse Show. Deborah and I, along with Gemma Tattersall are judging The Brooke’s horse photography competition right now. Lovely to catch up and talk over what it is we are looking for in the competition. @thebrookecharity @gemma_tattersall #deborahmeaden
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