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Alkham Valley Community Project

A few months back I did some work for Alkham Valley Community Project, a charity that provides riding and carriage driving opportunities to disabled children and adults. They were running a campaign for the peoples millions with the national lottery to win funding to buy another wheelchair accessible carriage and a few more ponies to cut Teds workload.
Now, as you have witnessed and i've stated many times, because I am completely useless at keeping my blog updated the voting on this particular scheme ended a good few months ago (absolute fail on my part) however I wanted to spread the word about this charity now because I know they do some wonderful work and from the day I spent there taking photos of the kids who regularly visit the centre it really does brighten up these peoples lives.
I'm not going to get into the detailed side of therapeutic benefits of being around horses, it's long and i'm sure it will bore you, but even as an activity it gave these kids something they could achieve and were incredibley good at doing!! I learnt from the team that the only other place to offer disabled carriage driving is in scotland... that would be a long journey from the south coast!
so i'm just showing my support and hopefully raising some awareness to an organisation that you may not have heard of but may feel you'd like to lend your support to.


Whilst i'm on the topic, there's also The Paddocks. I've shot regularly for this riding school at shows who give riding lessons to less fortunate children. I believe they even have riding for the blind. These establishments can only keep running so long as they receive funding so please check them out and if you feel they're the "right charity for you" show your support :)

www.avcp.co.uk
www.thepaddocks.org

I'm terrible at blogging

r.i.p Woody

I first want to briefly mention my friends horse in this blog post who sadly died a few days ago. She was a lovely pony and will be missed.

I need to work on keeping my blog updated this year, it's not something i've mastered yet!
I've just come back from spending a week in Brighton for photo shoots and i've decided that I very much like it there. I'd only ever day tripped before and having spent a week to experience day life, nightlife, work life, I can conclusively state it's a lot of fun! Also (as expected) it's a very creative town so I had a lot of fun exploring The Lanes with my stylist sourcing new vintage boutiques and visiting photo galleries.

I did two shoots with make up Artist Lydia Pankhurst and stylist Vicky Smith on the first day, one of which was a night shoot. I have to be honest, shooting in a field in the pitch black was fairly terrifying! Especially when a car slowed down as it drove past then parked at the entrance to the field we were shooting in and would not leave for a lengthy amount of time but we got some great shots and the model who we called upon last minute was fabulous :D We also learnt that she actually lived just a few doors down from Vicky, small world!
Behind the scenes images from photo shoots

(Photos courtesy of Vicky Smith)

Mel & Sam

Latest to join the clan

I think the top photo sums up Chester quite well! He's lovely really.
This group of horses belongs to my friend, well, half the horses of the group belong to one friend and half to another. I remember when it was just Chester as Lucy was away at stud and since she came back the herd just kept growing. There are now nine of them and Gizmo (in the last photo) is the newest addition! He was 6/7 months old when I took this photo and followed me round the field trying to give me kisses, hugs or eat my camera. Very sweet little colt.

I love it when they buy new horses, gives me more to photograph! :D

BTS: Autumn Shoot 2010

A couple of months back I worked with stylist Vicky Smith once again on a photo shoot for her university project. Alexander Gardiner did some behind the scenes filming and here's the result.

Images will be released shortly.

Homeless

Photography: Me
Models: Cyan Cheung // Mario Torkowski @ Oxygen
Make-up&hair: Sienna Llorenna // Elena Diaz