This Commission from Fork Magazine has been one of my favorate shoots this year despite its difficulty as I was suffering with a lost voice. As a photographer you need to communicate allot with non verbal gestures. This is very helpful when you off in a foreign country. But in Wales, it was challenging. The loss of voice also gave me an opportunity to evaluate my process of photography.

Scott at Fork was an ideal client  ”just take some photo’s, capture the event, interesting angles” this is not always possible, but gave me a real opportunity to do what I love and wonder around taking photo’s. As a photographer I find that if you are not particularly looking for anything and allow yourself to follow the flow, you naturally flow to some interesting things. I think part of the skill of a photographer is to on command slip into this flow and discover. This is not always possible and in the course of a shoot you can feel yourself riding the peeks and troughs. Some times you see the scene and work the shot waiting for the peek, the right moment. Other times, bang, you walk into the shot.

I will give a few examples, the Crazy Golf shot below was one I walked into, I saw the shape of his posture and immediately took the shot. It is one of my favorites.

This shot below took more work, I cold see the scene was interesting with the light through the umbrella, but I needing energy to the shot, luckily the girl in the photo needed a few attempts. I new I also needed action to leave the frame, so it was a case of siting tight and snapping away.

This portrait below of the Bull (Martin the Director) was taken while I was in a situation where I felt compelled to wait. I was not getting any good shots, and when this happens it is tempting to move on; I wanted to as the day was drawing to a close. It was a trough point but peeks can come fast, you can always predict, I think experience is the only way to master this. I am relatively new to photography  as a career so it is still called ‘luck’.

Sometimes getting a good shot is standing on the heads of giants, copying photographers that have gone before or standing in front of you.

Abergavenny Food Festival-Fork – Images by Jenny Hardy