Bournemouth International Triathlon 2009 – Triathlete's World

July 7, 2009

I was on location in Bournemouth at 6:00AM last Sunday (ouch) for the 2009 running of the Bournemouth International Triathlon; on assignment for Triathlete’s World Magazine. The first wave (Sprint Distance) set off at 6:30AM with the Standard Distance competitors setting off from 7:00AM. The weather conditions were cold and the sea was choppy but [...]

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Cancellara In Yellow

July 4, 2009

The 2009 Tour De France is finally underway with Fabian Cancellara of the Saxo Bank team pulling on the famous yellow jersey after winning the opening stage’s 15.5KM individual time trial by a huge 18 second lead over the second place finisher Astana’s Alberto Contador, with British rider Bradley Wiggins of Garmin-Slipstream rounding out the [...]

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More Contador – Cycle Sport Summer 2009

July 1, 2009

A couple more of my portraits of Team Astana rider and past Tour de France winner Alberto Contador made it into the new Summer 2009 issue of Cycle Sport Magazine; one in the Opinion section which comments on rumours of Contador’s departure from the Astana team to join Spanish team Caisse d’Epargne, and the large [...]

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Foot Anstey Sports Law Conference

June 30, 2009

I figure that I should probably give more blog-space than I do to local commercial and corporate photography shoots so here’s a couple of photographs from the Foot Anstey Solicitors 2009 Sports Law Conference held in their impressive new building at Sutton Harbour in Plymouth. Foot Anstey’s dedicated sports team gave talks and fielded questions [...]

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Westmoor Vets Brochure Photographs

June 29, 2009

Some photographs from a recent commercial photo-shoot at the Westmoor Veterinary Centre in Tavistock, Devon for their new brochure. The practice required commercial photos of the staff and premises to give a broad overview of the day-to-day running of the business and illustrate the depth of experience and facilities/equipment on hand. I love that photography [...]

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Oli Beckingsale – Giant Global Team

June 25, 2009

I travelled up to Bristol earlier this week for a photo-shoot with Giant Global Team professional mountain biker Oli Beckingsale, for an upcoming Shred Magazine cover feature. The Bristol based Beckingsale is a three-time Olympian, Commonwealth Silver Medallist and five-time National Mountain Bike Champion. Oli was on a rest day with no other commitments so [...]

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Jeremy Hunt – Shred West Cover

June 12, 2009

The new issue of south west bicycle magazine Shred West is now available featuring the portrait I created of Cervelo Test Team professional cyclist Jeremy Hunt on assignment for the magazine. Although Hunt has been a professional athlete riding for European teams for 13 years he still thinks of Devon as home; he was back in [...]

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PC Rob Hammond – Triathlete's World Magazine

June 11, 2009

Earlier in the week I travelled to Bournemouth in Dorset on Assignment for Triathlete’s World Magazine. The subject was PC Rob Hammond of the Dartmouth & Poole Constabulary’s West Howe Safer Neighbourhood Team who has represented both the Great Britain and Ireland teams (he has dual nationality) in international Triathlon competitions. I was to meet and [...]

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Nicole Cooke's Vision 1 Racing Team Photos

June 3, 2009

I figure that I should probably make more of the fact that I shot the official photographs for the Olympic and World Champion’s own team earlier in the year so here goes. Nicole Cooke is one of the most successful British athletes of all-time, and the first woman ever to to win both the road cycling Olympic and World [...]

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Tour Series Exeter City Centre Bike Race

June 2, 2009

More city centre criterium/bike racing; this time from the second round of the Tour Series Professional City Centre Cycle Races held in Exeter last Thursday with television coverage on ITV4 the night after each stage. The photograph above is the race winner Rapha-Condor team rider and current National Criterium Champion Dean Downing, celebrating as he crosses [...]

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Totnes Town Centre Criterium

June 1, 2009

I’ve been a little slow in updating the blog but now it’s finally been moved ‘in-house’ to a WordPress powered blog here at www.simonkeitch.com/blog I’ll try and get back into updating this thing on a more regular basis. I was at the Totnes Town Centre Bike Race about a week or so ago to photograph [...]

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Cycle Sport Magazine July 2009 Issue – Nicole Cooke, Tyler Farrar and Robbie McEwen

May 23, 2009

The new July 2009 issue of Cycle Sport Magazine is now on sale in the UK and USA and I’m pleased to say is packed with portraits that I shot on assignment for the publication. Three interviews in the magazine are illustrated with my photographs; Olympic Gold medallist and World Champion Nicole Cooke in Italy (above [...]

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Gen Lekma – Plymouth Buddhist Centre

May 20, 2009

This is a portrait is I made of Gen Kelsang Lekma as part of a loose personal project I’ve been working on as and when I get the time. Gen Lekma is the current resident teacher at the Ashoka Kadampa Buddhist Meditation Centre in Plymouth, which I was surprised to find when arriving on location [...]

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Simon Keitch Photography on Twitter

May 20, 2009

Another technological marvel; doesn’t seem like that long ago I was shooting black and white negs and fumbling with spools in the darkroom and here I am with a website, blog, Facebook account and now Twitter as well. Still not sure whether it’s a revolutionary new way of communicating or just another waste of my [...]

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Debra Searle – Accounting & Business Magazine

May 19, 2009

Last night I was assigned to photograph Debra Searle MBE for trade publication Accounting and Business Magazine who was speaking at an event held by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) at The Great Barn near Exeter in Devon. Debra is still best known for her solo row across the Atlantic, but now runs her own successful company [...]

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Simon Keitch Photography Portfolio

May 12, 2009

A video featuring my new portfolio; despite the fact that a print portfolio could be considered to have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the internet it’s still an invaluable tool to have; printed images have a quality to them that you just don’t get from a computer monitor, and it’s nice to have [...]

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Yanto Barker – Le Col/Colnago

April 30, 2009

Last week I met up with British professional cyclist Yanto Barker of Le Col/Colnago for a location photo-shoot to create promotional/commercial images of Yanto for him and his Le Col clothing company which will be launching later this summer. We shot the images at two remote locations on Dartmoor, Devon over the course of two [...]

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Alberto Contador Slideshow

April 26, 2009

As promised in the previous post; here’s a quick slideshow featuring some of my favourite images from the Alberto Contador cover shoot that I shot recently for Cycle Sport Magazine that didn’t make it to print.

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