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Sing For Water in London with Water Aid

A beautiful sunny day and hundreds of voices singing in a London amphitheatre. The location was The Scoop at More London, with the imposing site of Tower Bridge in the background. This was a fabulous day, an annual celebration of soaring choral voices to help raise funds for the work of Water Aid. Sing For Water takes part in different cities every year and I’ve been fortunate to capture the London event once again this year. Some of the joyful and colourful sights of the day can be found below …

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tags: event photography, Brendan Foster Event photography, Brendan Foster Photography, Water Aid, sing for water, the scoop at more london, Charity Events, Tower Bridge, London, South Bank, Singing, Singing Photography, Choir
categories: Event Photography
Tuesday 09.24.19
Posted by Brendan Foster
 

The Virgin London Marathon 2019

Every year gets bigger and better. I’ve written about the London marathon before, including a lengthy piece on how I best try to capture it., so i won’t get into all that again. I will share a few thoughts and shots though.

This year I was with the terrific team from Water Aid UK at their cheer point on the Victoria Embankment (about mile 24.5). It felt a bit more crowded among the runners this year than last. Shooting the marathon successfully is all about your view. Spending five hours tight against a railing, body swivelled to the left from the hips up and staring through an eyepiece almost all the time is not the easiest or most comfortable position. But it is the job and you get on with it. For me, the worst bit is having to shout out to fellow cheerers to maybe keep their hands or pom-poms or clackers or whatever their cheering with out of the line of the lens. I really dislike being a bossy boots when people are just cheering on as they should be. But I’d risk losing all chance of decent images if I didn’t make a few “requests”.

With only about 50 or so runners to spot this year the pressure was on not to miss too many, especially those that were not obscured or actually spotted us and waved. Fortunately we did ok. The cheerers were amazing and the runners, obviously, inspirational! I am always amazed and impressed with everyone’s effort on marathon day and this year was no exception.

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tags: Brendan Foster Photography, Brendan Foster Event photography, running photography, run, runners, marathon photography, London Marathon, Marathon Photography, Virgin London Marathon, Water Aid, London, Victoria Embankment
categories: Running Photography, Event Photography
Wednesday 05.01.19
Posted by Brendan Foster
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Photographing a Mud Run

Sometimes I get asked to photograph a Mud Run. For the uninitiated a mud run is a lunatic endeavour undertaken by people who enjoy fun, mud, challenges, the outdoors, mud, achievement and more mud. It’s a bonkers event that looks like a lot of fun. I say “looks like” as I, naturally, have never run in mud or dived into mud or even worn particularly muddy clothes that much. I am the poorer for that as it definitely looks like people love their mud runs when I watch them hurtling through water and muck from a safe distance with a fast, long lens.

I love the images you can get at a mud run. There’s a freedom and a fun to all the runners you don’t always see at regular running events. People genuinely having fun, knowing this is nuts and they’ll be washing mud out of every crevice (sorry) for a week. Smiles abound, team spirit and camaraderie is evident all over the course. The action can be spectacular, especially when it all ‘goes wrong’ and runners face plant or slide, fall from monkey bars or grimace up a muddy hill. Lots of opportunity for great muddy face photography. I just need to stay away from the splashes.

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tags: Brendan Foster Photography, charities, Mud Run, Tough Mudder, Tough Shit, Mudstacle, Mud Runner, Water Aid
categories: Event Photography
Thursday 03.21.19
Posted by Brendan Foster
 

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