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A Portrait Project #56 – Lizzie Rayner

A Portrait Project #56 Lizzie Raynor
Latest instalment of my ongoing Portrait Project – featuring Professional Long Course Triathlete Lizzie Raynor.

A Portrait Project #55 – Nicola Hope

I first photographed Nicola all the way back in January 2016, the fourth shoot in this project….

location portrait Theo May musician violin fiddle river Avon fossils

A Portrait Project #54 – Theo May

Do people make a place or does a place make its people?…. I first moved to Malmesbury…

Portrait Studio Andy Pointer Long Hair Beard Specs

A Portrait Project #53 – Andy Pointer

I am still here… but like so many of us, its been a bit tough! So you…

Kian Pollard Actor Headshots October 2021 Malmesbury

A Portrait Project #52 – Kian Pollard (again!)

If you saw my last post – https://rupertbarker.com/a-portrait-project-51-kian-pollard/ – you would have seen Kian’s magnificent bead, well…

Kian Pollard Actor Headshots August 2021 Malmesbury

A Portrait Project #51 – Kian Pollard

‘A Portrait Project’ is back…. it’s been a while…. too long but I don’t need to go…

A Portrait Project #50 – Louis Harvey – 2020 British Champion

I actually shot these images in late September…but never posted them, I seem to be suffering a…

Clubs Project Malmesbury Community Choir Photo Essay Rupert Barker Photographer

‘Clubs’#3 – Malmesbury Community Choir

Part 2 of my Clubs project…. …I’ve had good feedback on this new layout, let me know…

The Pollards Abbey House Gardens Portraits New Guardians of the Garden

A Portrait Project #49 – The Pollards.

I’m really excited to be able to bring you this set of images from my ‘A Portrait…

Louis Harvey British Championship Karter portrait project shoot with Rupert Barker

A Portrait Project #48 – Louis.

A Portrait Project #48 – Louis. As soon as I heard about Malmesbury’s own British Championship Karter,…

Long Players Malmesbury Band Clubs Project Photography

‘Clubs’#2 – The Long Players

Part 2 of my Clubs project…. …I’ve had good feedback on this new layout, let me know…

‘Clubs’#1 – Malmesbury Amateur Boxing Club

New year, new project, new presentation…. …let me know what you think. Click on the image below…

Heroes – John Holder & The Dead Cowboys

My Uncle John, illustrator extraordinaire, is also a damn good musician. Playing Bluegrass since the late ’50’s in…

Malmesbury Amateur Boxing Club – 24.11.18.

I’ve never photographed boxing before……..so when I got a message asking if I could take some images…

The Long Players – Purple Rain

If you happened to be walking past The Kings Arms in Malmesbury on 18th November and wondered…

Florist Portrait Photography Project Jodie Acacia Florist flowers

A Portrait Project #47 – Jodie.

A Portrait Project #47 – Jodie. Refresh, reboot, reinvent……after some navel gazing I’ve decided to remove the…

Weekly Portrait #46 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Megan.

Weekly Portrait #46 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Megan.   Megan lives on the…

jo Buckland cyclist velodrome newport track cycling portrait colour monochrome

Weekly Portrait #45 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jo.

Weekly Portrait #45 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jo. So I might need to…

Sarah Lewis Alopecia wig bravery shaved head portrait black and white

Weekly Portrait #44 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah.

Weekly Portrait #44 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah. I first photographed Sarah in…

Weekly Portrait #43 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phillip.

Weekly Portrait #43 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phillip. One week of a crazy…

Weekly Portrait #43 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Esther.

Weekly Portrait #43 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Esther. Once a month as part…

Weekly Portrait #42 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Clare.

Weekly Portrait #42 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Clare. I didn’t shoot a weekly…

portrait Ceri Brinkworth Dairy Wiltshire cheese photography

Weekly Portrait #41 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ceri.

Weekly Portrait #41 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ceri. Yesterday I got to spend…

Luke hollingworth portrait artist stencil shed spray paint spaniels

Weekly Portrait #40 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Luke or Syd.

Weekly Portrait #40 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Luke or Syd. It’s back……. So…

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Wedding Portraits you’d never take on your big day – or ‘Trash the Dress’

I’m not a wedding photographer, but there is something really special about a bride dressed for her…

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Tipsy Waggon – The Mobile Premium Bar

Here is my second complimentary commercial shoot, part of the 6 shoots I’m offering to businesses, large…

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Buttons – Children’s Clothing

I undertook my first complementary commercial shoots in July (just) but with a super busy family time…

Fujifilm GFX50S Test Shoot vintage steam punk model

Fujifilm GFX 50S

So I proviso this blog post with the fact that I’m not a photographer chasing the latest…

family photoshoot autumn woods behind the scenes

A family photoshoot in the woods – ‘behind the scenes’

As a new feature here on my blog I’m going to start showing a more detailed view…

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Second day in the paddling pool, time to activate the sprinkler……..

children paddling pool summer family fun

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So you can blame me for the change in the weather, I was the one who ordered…

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – March 2017

It’s been a while since I photographed any dogs for Happily Ever After but on Sunday, Cerian…

Sooty Black Cat

Sooty 1995 – 2017

13 years ago in February my Granny had to move into sheltered accommodation that did not allow…

corrective farrier shoeing horses portrait wiltshire

Weekly Portrait #39 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Robin.

Weekly Portrait #39 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Robin. Corrective Farrier and partner at…

Martin tree surgeon wiltshire sunset portraits

Weekly Portrait #38 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Martin.

Weekly Portrait #38 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Martin. Tree surgeon and purveyor of…

Topless Male Portrait with rescue puppies Black and White Calendar shoot

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #8 – Sean.

Eighth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go…

Julian lewis wine tasting portraits glass malmesbury eclipse

Weekly Portrait #37 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Julian.

Weekly Portrait #37 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Julian. This weeks Weekly Portrait comes…

Rebekah naked portrait with rescue dog black and white

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #7 – Rebekah.

Seventh instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go…

Topless Male Portrait with rescue puppies Black and White Calendar shoot

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #6 – Chay.

Sixth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to…

Vet naked portrait with rescue dog

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #5 – Tom.

On this tumultuous day, how about an image of a naked vet with a rescue dog to…

Alex topless portrait marine rescue dog somerset

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #4 – Alex.

Fourth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please…

john holder illustrator portrait black and white land rover chainsaw

Weekly Portrait #36 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Uncle John.

Weekly Portrait #36 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Uncle John. This weeks Weekly Portrait Project…

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Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #3 – Andrew.

Third instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please…

Natalie cake maker baker portrait bantam

Weekly Portrait #35 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Natalie.

Weekly Portrait #35 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Natalie. I first met Natalie when…

Topless Male Portrait with rescue dog Black and White Calendar shoot

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #2 – Thomas.

Second instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please…

Topless Male Portrait with dog Black and White Calendar shoot

Happily Ever After Dog Rescue – Image #1 – Gareth

Some of you will have read or seen posts I’ve liked about the Calendar project I worked…

Niki Dow Willow Equine Rehab Dressage Portrait Horse Dog Malmesbury Wiltshire

Weekly Portrait #34 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Niki.

Weekly Portrait #34 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Niki. Niki and her partner Robin…

Dave Sturdy musician bass guitar whippet vinyl LP albums Weekly Portrait

Weekly Portrait #33 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave.

Weekly Portrait #33 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave. Meet Dave, creative director by…

Tri Corn Scarlett

Lesser Spotted Tri-Horned Scarlett.-‘From my old blog’

Originally posted December 17th 2014. I was looking for something and happened across a post from my…

Janey tatoo portriats black and white

Weekly Portrait #32 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Janey.

Weekly Portrait #32 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Janey. I met and photographed Janey…

Meet Anneliese Bushnell November 12, 2014

Meet Anneliese Bushnell: Making a bald statement – ‘From my old blog’

So this blog post was originally written in November 2014 – Anneliese is fighting a different battle…

Daughter first day at school Malmesbury portrait

Sisters – First Frame

Today is Scarlett’s first day at school and I know your Facebook feeds will have been full…

Bev Belle and Bear Vintage Retro Portrait Shop Interior

Weekly Portrait #31 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Bev.

Weekly Portrait #31 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Bev. Owner of a new and…

Dave steampunk teardrop camper beard malmesbury character portrait

Weekly Portrait #30 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave.

Weekly Portrait #30 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave. Another introduction through Facebook led…

Andy swimming channel lake swim cotswold water park

Weekly Portrait #29 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Andy.

Weekly Portrait #29 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Andy. Chairman of Malmesbury Marlins swimming…

Ami musician artist creative gardener portrait

Weekly Portrait #28 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ami.

Weekly Portrait #28 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ami. Musician, artist, gardener and all…

Alex Shisha Tent Portrait Boondocks Parasol Sunshine Pirate

Weekly Portrait #27 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Alex.

Weekly Portrait #27 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Alex. Running her ‘Shisha Tent’ at…

Boondocks Festival Portrait portraits

Boondocks 2016

The best thing about Boondocks, Malmesbury’s own home-grown festival, is………………………………………………..

School Sports Day…

Kathy Writter Interior Designer Property Developer Mum

Weekly Portrait #26 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Kathy.

Weekly Portrait #26 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Kathy. Kathy – Writer, Interior Designer,…

Jodie Prenger weekly portrait farm Blackpool monochrome

Weekly Portrait #25 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jodie.

Weekly Portrait #25 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jodie. So yesterday I was up…

Catherine Burke guitar banjo mandolin fiddle bluegrass folk musician

Weekly Portrait #24 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Catherine.

Weekly Portrait #24 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Catherine. Multi-Instrumentalist Catherine, singer, songwriter and…

Jane Tattoo Malmesbury sailor traditional old school

Weekly Portrait #23 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jane

Weekly Portrait #23 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jane. Another connection made via mutual…

Crantock Beach sand jumping girl daughter

04.06.16 – Crantock

Day 7 – Before we headed home (and the reason I’m posting today, a day late!) we had…

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03.06.16 – Trevaunance Cove – St Agnes

Day 6 – Last full day in Cornwall and glorious blue skies again. Today we headed back to…

The Beached Lamb Cafe Newquay milkshakes family bright colours

02.06.16 -Newquay

Day 5 – The girls asked for a day away from the beach today so we agreed…

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01.06.16 – Perranporth – Weekly Portrait #22 – “People I now know” Kylie.

Day 4 Today is a joint blog post, Weekly Portrait Project and Happy Birthday to Kylie. Auntie Katie…

holywell sand dunes jumping girl daughter

31.05.16 – Holywell

Day 3 – Sun still shining, but a pretty strong onshore wind kept us out the surf today,…

trevaunance cove cornwall beach sandcastle dog daughter

30.05.2016 – Trevaunance Cove – St Agnes

Day 2 lots more ‘belly boarding’, building of giant sandcastles reinforced by Scarlett with boulders (which Thor thought…

29.05.2016 – Perranporth

Day 1 of a long overdue holiday, Kylie, Tallulah, Scarlett, Thor and I have an addition to…

Weekly Portrait #21 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phil

Weekly Portrait #21 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Phil So this is the first,…

El Tig couple field buttercups wiltshire malmesbury

Weekly Portrait #20 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – El & Tig

Weekly Portrait #20 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – El & Tig A double portrait…

Neil Muttock Malmesbury Acoustic Sessions Portrait Kings Arms

Weekly Portrait #19 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Neil

Weekly Portrait #19 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Neil Malmesbury’s live music man and…

Flying balloon girl pink levitation

Weekly Portrait #18 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Tallulah

Weekly Portrait #18 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Tallulah Ever since we came home…

Girl Puple Paisley Hotrod Ford Prince tribute

Weekly Portrait #17 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Miranda

Weekly Portrait #17 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Miranda So I had already planned…

Bellydance portrait bluebells wood purple smoke russian princess

Weekly Portrait #16 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Xenia

Weekly Portrait #16 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Xenia Xenia – Russian belly-dancing princess,…

Daughter Birthday Natural light portrait

Happy Birthday Tallulah.

Happy Birthday Tallulah! Six years ago today I became a Daddy for the first time, thank you…

Drysuit Diving in Malmesbury Town Bridge Silk Mills Gareth

Weekly Portrait #15 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Gareth

Weekly Portrait #15 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Gareth So what do you do…

Sarah Eden portrait painter wiltshire animals wildlife

Weekly Portrait #14 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah

Weekly Portrait #14 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah Sarah is an artist, a…

Roy and Xen Couple Wiltshire Portrait

Happy Anniversary Roy and Xen

Happy Anniversary Roy and Xen Roy featured in last weeks ‘Weekly Portrait’ see it here if you…

Roy Landrover Guitar Rum Malmesbury

Weekly Portrait #13 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Roy

Weekly Portrait #13 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Roy Roy – Prog, Rock and…

Michelle from Perfection Health and Beauty Country and Western in the woods

Weekly Portrait #12 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Michelle

Weekly Portrait #12 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Michelle Michelle from Perfection Health and…

Mark Tsalagi Cherokee Nation Spiritualist Medium Healer

Weekly Portrait #11 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Mark

Weekly Portrait #11 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Mark Member of the Tsalagi (Cherokee)…

Joanna Cleaver - Meet Cleaver Mosaics - Ceramic Artist - Malmesbury

Weekly Portrait #10 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Joanna

Weekly Portrait #10 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Joanna Ceramic Artist – Meet Cleaver…

Happy Mothers Day

Happy MumMum Day from T&S!

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Weekly Portrait #9 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Scarlett

Weekly Portrait #9 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Scarlett Time to introduce the first…

Nissi the rescue dog near Bristol

Nissi is looking for her forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue

Nissi is looking for her forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue Who can say no…

Dan Payne pinstriper sprayer and hand lettering

Weekly Portrait #8 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dan

Weekly Portrait #8 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dan Painting under the name Paynes…

Indie the rescue dog near Bristol

Indie needs a forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue

Indie needs a forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue Indie was rescued from Romania after…

JJ Burnel, Bass Player, Strangers

Weekly Portrait #7.5 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – JJ

Weekly Portrait #7.5 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – JJ Special treat for you –…

Nav in Malmesbury Abbey

Weekly Portrait #7 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nav

Weekly Portrait #7 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nav Taking me on a new…

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Weekly Portrait #6 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nicki

Weekly Portrait #6 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nicki My open brief portrait project/journey…

Weekly Portrait #5 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Cerian

Weekly Portrait #5 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Cerian I told you this brief was…

Weekly Portrait #4 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Nicola

Weekly Portrait #4 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Nicola For those of you who missed…

1st Tooth Down!

1st_Tooth_Down! – after what seems to have been weeks of wobbling and questions like “Daddy why won’t…

Weekly Portrait #3 – “People I know” (Working Title)! – Weasel

Weekly Portrait #3 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Weasel For those of you who missed…

Weekly Portrait #2 – “People I know” (Working Title)!

Weekly Portrait #2 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Ben For those of you who missed…

Weekly Portrait #1 – “People I know” (working title)!

For 2016 I have set myself a little challenge/project – I am going to shoot a self…

Bat Girl Smoke Jump

Reworked an image from last summer for some new promotional material. What do you think?

Scarlett’s first solo climb of The Tor.

Scarlett, aged 3&1/2, climbed Glastonbury Tor solo today for the first time! Except for a firm handhold…

Winter Sunshine, and it’s warm!

Westhay Moor, family dogwalk therapy!          

Portrait Head-swap! Using Photoshop to blend two images.

I think this is probably the first technical post I have made about my work and process….

Richard Burns – World Champion

My first professional photography job was with LAT Photographic, part of Haymarket Publishing, I was an ‘Archivist’…

Daddy Daycare!

     

Now that’s a commute!

Every Thursday, and some Tuesdays I drop Scarlett of at pre-school, it was a pretty special kind…

A call for help – Please help the Dogs of Dubrovnik

Please can I ask you all to sign this petition to help Sandra, she is possibly the…

Another Crazy Weekend at Barker Towers!

My Brothers youngest had her 6th birthday on Saturday, T, S and I went down to Fleet…

Stinky Murphy and Series 1 Landrover

Whilst in Cambridge at the weekend we had to wash stinky Murphy, he seemed to like all…

Alopecia, a portrait to help.

A few weeks back I learned via a Facebook post a previous client and fellow Malmesbury resident…

John Holder and Murphy

Fantastic and busy few days! Thursday drive up to Cambridge for the beautiful wedding of Harriet and…

Glastonbury Tor and Ribbon Tree. 

Whenever we visit Kylie’s family in and around Glastonbury, we always make time to climb the Tor,…

North Cornwall Coast

During our holiday near the North Cornwall Coast I seem to have produced Panoramic iPhone images of…

Holiday Cottage with no WiFi – quite nice really!

   The holiday cottage has no WiFi, quiet nice really! Yesterday we went to Crackington Haven and…

Building Bridges, well one!

I spent most of the day building a bridge over the ditch at the top of Granny’s…

I love an engagement shoot.

I love an engagement shoot, especially when its my cousin Sarah and her fiancé Olly. Also helps…

Mad Week, I’m Back!

Mad Week of work, I’m back! If I had time to sit in front of the computer…

Girls and Treehouse

 Strange mix of technologies today. Here are Polaroid photographs of T & S on the steps to…

Character Portrait

An image from Saturdays Portrait shoot at Roundway Hill. A bit of an outtake/intake. Love it when clients…

Daddy Daycare

Monday’s are Daddy Daycare, when I asked Scarlett what she wanted to do today – ” me…

Batgirl and Spidergirl

Today Scarlett and Tallulah decided to spend the afternoon as Batgirl and Spidergirl, much posturing and dramatic…

Roundway Hill

   Its been a long time since I’ve been up Roundway Hill, used to ride mountain bikes…

business portrait

Business Portraits

I’m shooting more and more business portraits, they don’t have to be tight and dull, there is…

#dogwalktherapy

Green and Blue. Perfect Dog Walk Country.   

Magic Light River

  This is the first appearance of Magic Light River on my new blog and I’m sure it…

Banana Fritter Tuesday

There are not enough, flour, egg and  milk based food day celebrations so today we had ‘Banana…

Homework.

 Year 1 and Pre-School homework done, special things in Scarlett’s life and I now know more about…

Goodnight!

Hot Chocolate and Kraken, warm content, sleepy! Goodnight!   

#dogwalktherapy

   #dogwalktherapy

Jelly Cat

Jelly_Cat

Jelly_Cat! After a fanfic 10 minute portrait shoot, I waited for the sunshine to shoot Solar Park…

Best place to sit!

Scarlett likes to find the best place to sit.  Mummy sorting out her work diary, her feet…

Tired Topknot and RIP Colin McRae

Spent all day chasing the weather – and cursing it! I know it won’t change when you…

Wet Floor

In case you hadn’t noticed the rain!     

Fields of Fluff!

Family #dogwalktherapy with Granny and Poppy too. Mid-walk Waitrose stop for coffee and cake.  After noon of…

What happened to the rest of him?

DIY day, mainly building shelves! But did get interrupted by this little fella.     And also found…

School Trip to the Museum

Went to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with Tallulah’s Class today, thankfully 7 other adults too!  The…

Boondocks Festival Malmesbury 2015 – my take in 16:9

Wow that was a busy Summer Holidays, work diary and family life mixed, matched and left very…

Splash Girls Photography

  Sunny Summer Weekend – except for the thunder storm bit – time to get the paddling…

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Welcome to my little corner of the internet!

Welcome to my new website, the first time that I have had all my photographic work one…