The Weekend
by Phil Long
Well, it’s been a pretty busy weekend. Friday night I was out at the Baum in Rochdale with friends, drowning sorrows and eating food, followed by more ‘food’ (read: Kebab).
Saturday I got up fairly late and decided to call ‘BARBEQUE’. While setting up the sun was a bit on-and-off, but by the time people arrived it had decided to stick around for a bit – with spots of rain only coming as the garden entered the complete shade of the house – so it was in for Guitar Hero then:
On Sunday I was up at stupid-o-clock (7.15) for a “photo-gig”; helping out a workmate who was covering a youth rugby tournament in Rochdale. First experience of professional photography, and clearly I have more to learn, but it was interesting (and knackering!) none-the-less. The photos were for Rugby Event PHotography and one of my pics is provided below. I’ve not made the lot available on Flickr as they’re available to purchase by parents on the linked Website, so I don’t want to jeapodise sales.
In other news, my sister’s been very ill lately with Orbital Cellulitis. I’d post a picture of what that looks like, but I think you should be allowed to exercise discretion as to whether you see that (see here if you dare: Orbital Cellulitis - this isn’t my sister btw). It’s a serious infection around the eye area which carries risks of blindness and worse. Good news is Sis’ has been given the all clear today. My mum was telling me about her eye tests – where every time a ‘C’ appears my sister was declaring “I can’t see the ‘C’.”. Mischievous one is Jen’. People who know me may now realise bad puns is a family trait. 
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Hey Phil, good to see you back and glad your sister’s in recovery
“Can’t see the C,” eh?
BTW Google served up an ad for eye infection treatments in your sidebar lol
I am guessing that is the only half decent pic from Sat night!
Glad your sis is ok xx
and what do you mean you have a lot to learn? That rugby picture is bloody excellent!
@Matt: Thanks sir.
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Glad to see my (failed, nobody ever clicks ‘em
@Kate: There’s a few up on Flickr if you click through, but a lot of blurred/out-of-focus ones. Tufty wasn’t helped that the lens attached was the wide-angle with central focussing which kind of screwed up shots for him that would have been pretty good otherwise.
Main challenge was getting people to get teams together pics – not so good at that and I don’t do the photographer banter for getting people to smile – seems very unnatural to me. Action shots, not so much of a challenge. Colin (Scott’s dad) gave me a great phrase for deleting photos on-camera (which I had to do a lot) “Chimping”; because people “ooh’ and ‘aah’ at photos. 
Cheers for the feedback on the pic’.
Let me get this right…
You spent Sunday morning photographing little boys in shorts rolling around in the mud?
Pervert.
You are not posting the images because you want to get money out of the parents?
Extortion too!
@Maff: Thanks for your comments, bro;. :p
A big thanks goes out to Phil for Sunday and you should not put yourself down… most of your images were abs fab with the rest being VG… It was a very busy day and a lot of intrest was made for images…..
Thank you again… appreciated
Hey Phil. can you spot which images on the site are yours you could just post the numbers after looking at:
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/reph
What you need is a someone who is loud and good at ordering people about to get group shots sorted for you…….. I am sure you know a few people that fall in to that category