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Revamp

bekitatham — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:30:02 +0000

The blog is currently undergoing a major revamp, please continue to view it as changes will be made in the very near future. Please be patient and I’ll have some more lovely photographs posted on here soon.

June’s adventures

bekitatham — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:57:34 +0000

So I thought as I haven’t posted in a fair while due to having a job I thought I’d make little update posts. A taster of what’s to come and what my plans in photography will be in the near future. Here, are a select few photographs from the trip I took out to the Alps. Futher pictures can be found here

The other 2 photographs are from a short bouldering trip with an old friend from school who is coming to study outdoor leadership at the University of Cumbria. We went out on perhaps one of the most rainy days of the summer so far but we were blessed with dry (ish) rock.

further pictures can be found here

So an insight as to what July holds, well I’ll post those up tomorrow and as for the rest of the summer. I’m hoping to get out climbing a bit more grit, biking with new found friends and kayaking the Washburn. Watch this space

Beki

The Nissan Downhill Mountain Biking World Championship

bekitatham — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:40:46 +0000

Wow that is a long title and I’d like to apologise for the lateness of this post. This happened in May, I went up with my Brother and some of his friends. The weekend was stunning, the only thing that showed it in a negative light was the damn midges. The winner of the mens downhill competition was Greg Minaar, he slapped Sam Hill’s time in the face. The Womens competition was dominated by the French.

The Event was very well organised and interesting even to those not in the know (me) The main sponsors were Nissan and Monster Energy with sponsored riders entered from almost every biking company you could imagine. I will certainly be going next year when I know I will be much more clued up on what I want out of the event.

Anyways enjoy the photos

Peace out

A Walk in the Park

bekitatham — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:07:41 +0000

Recently I’ve noticed my photography starting to become a bit sloppy. To counteract this, I’m taking my camera everywhere in a bid to practise my skills that I’ve learnt at University. I hope to post at least 3 times a week on this blog so I’ve got my work cut out for me. As well as writing articles, managing my other blog and working at the leisure centre I’m keen to be getting out and snapping away happily.

This first set of photos are from when I took my dog on a walk. Not very interesting although a visit back to one of my old childhood play grounds was bliss ( I even climbed a tree). This place is called Prince of Wales Park and although it’s known as a pretty scary place where shadows lurk in the dark, back in the day with my parents it was bliss. You feel so far away from it all, no road noises, no building works, just nature.

For all those that didn’t make it.

bekitatham — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:06:53 +0000

So, I’ve had an eventful month photographing my guts out. There’s been some good times and some bad times as I’m sure you can appreciate. This post is basically to thank everyone for helping me out and explain why this has been such a cool experience.

Firstly to Martin, my lecturer. He’s pretty blunt and to the point but rightly so. Everything he says is right no matter how picky. It can be really infuriating sometimes but it certainly makes you a lot stronger. Also he provides for some comedy photo opportunities like these:

The next thankyou is to Rich from Cyclewise at Whinlatter Forest. Mostly for being such a dude but also for being so helpful and offering loads of opportunities. This was especially so at the Whinlatter Mountain Bike Challenge. My camera failed and I paid the fine for not having spare batteries. It was a pretty frustrating moment and still brings tears to my eyes but Rich was awesome and lent me his compact and I managed to escape with these shots:

And finally the third thankyou goes to all my lovely friendies. They were always there to pose voluntarily or unvoluntarily in the outdoors. They acted as my life support. They got me out there to make most of these photographs possible. They were always there to pick up the pieces, listen to me complain, and generally make this past month awesomely fun and laughable. To you guys I thank you:

biking near cockermouth

bekitatham — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:08:26 +0000

My friends and I went across to this forest. The lighting was far from ideal and made it difficult to photograph fast moving bikes… Definately a learning experience.

panoramic struggle

bekitatham — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:26:07 +0000

Well, we have an assignment which is based on panoramics. It’s hard and I mean really hard. I am trying but its hard to feel inspired or anything when you know 9 times out of 10 it’s going to go wrong….

ah well gona keep practising and this is the first of my efforts.

power

rolling fields

I know the joining lines are there just thought I’d let you all have a sneak preview before I get better.

Scrap

bekitatham — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:21:45 +0000

These photos were taken on an adventure to Little Salkeld. We stopped off at a scrap yard where I found these great sort of patterns and I found them extremely interesting.

I’ll be adding more as the week goes on.

more can be seen on my deviant art account.

British summer

bekitatham — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:15:46 +0000

Taken whilst on holiday near Bournemouth. Typical stormy British weather. Lovely

Tees Barrage

bekitatham — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:51 +0000

Ali and I were invited on a kayaking trip to Tees Barrage white water course. This provided us with an excellent opportunity to kick start our adventure and media course with some really cool photographs of our friends show boating to us.