Photographic Bronze Order of Merit - started as a reject!

I don’t often get recognition for my pictures. I keep trying. I keep trying Instagram, Facebook and other Social media Sites. In fact this image above is an image that I shot a couple of weeks ago and very nearly didn’t retouch or edit. I knew I had taken a couple of pictures and maybe it was because I forgot the sunshade for my iPad and couldn’t see it properly or maybe I just didn’t think much of it, I don’t know. It felt like one of those images that just wouldn’t work. So it has stayed in the “stills” folder in the video project which can be found here.

Art, Black & White, Days Out, Landscape, Photography, retouchingRichard ButcherFebruary 20, 2020drone, beach, drones, mavic, dji, east preston, west sussex, flying, quadcopter, youtube, film, film making, sand, sea, seascape, landscape photography, photography, sun, sunset, pebbles, rocks, spits, bars, silhouette, seagull, seagulls, forum, grey arrows, order of merit, awardComment

Travels with my Mavic - Episode 3 - East Preston Beach, West Sussex, UK

Finally a day in January when I could fly my Drone! The weather was calm and sunny. I went down primarily to see a friend of mine Roy who taught me as much about photography as I wanted to know and we have become the best of friends for the last 30 odd years!

Art, Black & White, Days Out, Film Making, Filming, Landscape, Photography, Travel, VideographyRichard ButcherFebruary 20, 2020drone, beach, drones, mavic, dji, east preston, west sussex, flying, quadcopter, youtube, film, film making, sand, sea, seascape, landscape photography, photography, sun, sunset, pebbles, rocks, spits, bars, silhouette, seagull, seagullsComment

Travels with my Mavic - Episode 2 - St Martha's Hill - Guildford, UK

A very breezy day had me fighting the controls after my Mavic Pro found it too windy to use some of the intelligent flight modes that I wanted to try out. Once again I was amazed at the stability of the drone at winds gusting up to 23 MPH. St Martha's Church stands on the Pilgrims way which is also the North Downs way in Guildford and it stretches as Far East as Canterbury.

Art, Landscape, Photography, Travel, Videography, YoutubeRichard ButcherJanuary 29, 2020drones, art, Bell Tower, church, cloud, clouds, dji, drone, video, videography, guildford, Church, North Downs, sunset, pilgrims way, quad, quadcopter, ruins, shadow, mavic, mavic pro, youtube, landscape, hill, st marthas hill, cemetery, Surrey hills, surreyComment

Travels with my Mavic - Episode 1 - St Catherine's Chapel - Guildford, UK

Since I have had my Drone, the weather has been, well terrible to say the least. I have rarely been aware of the weather, I take for granted when its warm and complain when its cold. But once you start encompassing the fact that you have to throw one of these Drones into the air, it encourages you to be more aware of the wind speed, the precipitation and the temperature(even the temperature affects the batteries)

Art, Days Out, Landscape, Photography, Youtube, VideographyRichard ButcherDecember 30, 2019drone, drones, dji, mavic, mavic pro, quad, quadcopter, youtube, video, stills, photography, videography, chapel, ruins, church, St Catherines Hill, guildford, Canterbury, Thomas a-beckett, pilgrims way, North DownsComment

Mizuno Wave Mirage 3 Gladiator Netball Shoes - Shoot and Retouch

Mizuno like to do things a little differently, if we aren’t photographing netball shoes on blocks of ice then we have them on the moon or floating in mid-air over a grungy concrete urban background, so it was no real surprise when they commissioned us to make a Gladiator themed shoot for their latest shoe creation the Wave Mirage 3 Gladiator Netball shoe.

Art, Photography, commercial, retouching, compositeRichard ButcherSeptember 10, 2019national theatre, netball, England netball, fran williams, josie, huckle, mizuno, wave mirage 3, Gladiator, gladiators, netballhelmet, amphitheatre, shoe, sj, netball shoes, m oody, mood, shadow, sunset, statue, ice, dust, sand, sandy, lion, sword, shieldComment

James Cracknell - Mizuno Ambassador

Mizuno is proud to announce that they will be partnering with James Cracknell in his bid to row the 2019 Boat Race whilst he studies for his MPhil at the University of Cambridge. If successful James would become the oldest rower to ever compete in the Boat Race, beating the previous record by ten years.

Photography, EditorialsRichard ButcherDecember 12, 2018Ely BoathouseMizuno ambassador, mizuno, rowing, cambridge, boatrace, bot, race, university, ely, boathouse, wattbikemwatt, training, hoodie, JC Clothing, james, cracknell, James cracknell, sweat, cycling, oar, olympic, University of CambridgeComment

Venice - Canals, Cathedrals and Cobblestones

Over the years Venice has inspired artists, photographers, artisans and Poets, each trying to capture their interpretation of the beauty of the narrow and meandering streets and canals.

Travel, PhotographyRichard ButcherApril 12, 2016Venice, Rialto, Cathedral, Byzantine, Venetian, Photographs, Ponte, 35mm, canon, Basilica, Bridge, Gallery, prints, Gondolier, Gondoliers, Grande Canal, river, canal, Church, Campanile, Bell Tower, Fisherman, Fishing, Boat, BoatsComment

The DC-3 of Sólheimasandur Beach

A United States Cargo, Douglas Super DC-3 airplane lies deserted, eerily surrounded by the blackened, barren landscape of Sólheimasandur Beach in Iceland - untouched since it crashed more than four decades ago.

PhotographyRichard ButcherJune 1, 2015DC-3, Sólheimasandur Beach, US Navy, wreck, plane, iceland, plane crash, Skógafoss, SólheimasandurComment

City of Buenos Aires - Argentina - Black and White Study

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre".

Landscape, Photography, Black & White, Art, TravelRichard ButcherMarch 12, 2002shadow, black and white, 4-colour, La Boca, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Fireman, Bus, boat, boats, windows, window, market, area, barrion, lamppostComment

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