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A Portrait Project #56 Lizzie Raynor
Latest instalment of my ongoing Portrait Project – featuring Professional Long Course Triathlete Lizzie Raynor.
I first photographed Nicola all the way back in January 2016, the fourth shoot in this project….
Do people make a place or does a place make its people?…. I first moved to Malmesbury…
I am still here… but like so many of us, its been a bit tough! So you…
If you saw my last post – https://rupertbarker.com/a-portrait-project-51-kian-pollard/ – you would have seen Kian’s magnificent bead, well…
‘A Portrait Project’ is back…. it’s been a while…. too long but I don’t need to go…
I actually shot these images in late September…but never posted them, I seem to be suffering a…
Part 2 of my Clubs project…. …I’ve had good feedback on this new layout, let me know…
I’m really excited to be able to bring you this set of images from my ‘A Portrait…
A Portrait Project #48 – Louis. As soon as I heard about Malmesbury’s own British Championship Karter,…
Part 2 of my Clubs project…. …I’ve had good feedback on this new layout, let me know…
New year, new project, new presentation…. …let me know what you think. Click on the image below…
My Uncle John, illustrator extraordinaire, is also a damn good musician. Playing Bluegrass since the late ’50’s in…
I’ve never photographed boxing before……..so when I got a message asking if I could take some images…
If you happened to be walking past The Kings Arms in Malmesbury on 18th November and wondered…
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. Megan lives on the…
Weekly Portrait #45 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jo. So I might need to…
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. One week of a crazy…
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. I didn’t shoot a weekly…
Weekly Portrait #41 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ceri. Yesterday I got to spend…
Weekly Portrait #40 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Luke or Syd. It’s back……. So…
I’m not a wedding photographer, but there is something really special about a bride dressed for her…
Here is my second complimentary commercial shoot, part of the 6 shoots I’m offering to businesses, large…
I undertook my first complementary commercial shoots in July (just) but with a super busy family time…
So I proviso this blog post with the fact that I’m not a photographer chasing the latest…
As a new feature here on my blog I’m going to start showing a more detailed view…
So you can blame me for the change in the weather, I was the one who ordered…
It’s been a while since I photographed any dogs for Happily Ever After but on Sunday, Cerian…
13 years ago in February my Granny had to move into sheltered accommodation that did not allow…
Weekly Portrait #39 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Robin. Corrective Farrier and partner at…
Weekly Portrait #38 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Martin. Tree surgeon and purveyor of…
Eighth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go…
Weekly Portrait #37 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Julian. This weeks Weekly Portrait comes…
Seventh instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go…
Sixth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please go to…
On this tumultuous day, how about an image of a naked vet with a rescue dog to…
Fourth instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please…
Weekly Portrait #36 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Uncle John. This weeks Weekly Portrait Project…
Third instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please…
Weekly Portrait #35 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Natalie. I first met Natalie when…
Second instalment of showing you the calendar images I shot for Happily Ever After Dog Rescue, please…
Some of you will have read or seen posts I’ve liked about the Calendar project I worked…
Weekly Portrait #34 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Niki. Niki and her partner Robin…
Weekly Portrait #33 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave. Meet Dave, creative director by…
Originally posted December 17th 2014. I was looking for something and happened across a post from my…
Weekly Portrait #32 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Janey. I met and photographed Janey…
So this blog post was originally written in November 2014 – Anneliese is fighting a different battle…
Today is Scarlett’s first day at school and I know your Facebook feeds will have been full…
Weekly Portrait #31 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Bev. Owner of a new and…
Weekly Portrait #30 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dave. Another introduction through Facebook led…
Weekly Portrait #29 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Andy. Chairman of Malmesbury Marlins swimming…
Weekly Portrait #28 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Ami. Musician, artist, gardener and all…
Weekly Portrait #27 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Alex. Running her ‘Shisha Tent’ at…
The best thing about Boondocks, Malmesbury’s own home-grown festival, is………………………………………………..
Weekly Portrait #26 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Kathy. Kathy – Writer, Interior Designer,…
Weekly Portrait #25 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jodie. So yesterday I was up…
Weekly Portrait #24 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Catherine. Multi-Instrumentalist Catherine, singer, songwriter and…
Weekly Portrait #23 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Jane. Another connection made via mutual…
Day 7 – Before we headed home (and the reason I’m posting today, a day late!) we had…
Day 6 – Last full day in Cornwall and glorious blue skies again. Today we headed back to…
Day 4 Today is a joint blog post, Weekly Portrait Project and Happy Birthday to Kylie. Auntie Katie…
Day 3 – Sun still shining, but a pretty strong onshore wind kept us out the surf today,…
Day 2 lots more ‘belly boarding’, building of giant sandcastles reinforced by Scarlett with boulders (which Thor thought…
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 So this is the first,…
Weekly Portrait #20 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – El & Tig A double portrait…
Weekly Portrait #19 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Neil Malmesbury’s live music man and…
Weekly Portrait #18 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Tallulah Ever since we came home…
Weekly Portrait #17 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Miranda So I had already planned…
Weekly Portrait #16 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Xenia Xenia – Russian belly-dancing princess,…
Happy Birthday Tallulah! Six years ago today I became a Daddy for the first time, thank you…
Weekly Portrait #15 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Gareth So what do you do…
Weekly Portrait #14 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Sarah Sarah is an artist, a…
Happy Anniversary Roy and Xen Roy featured in last weeks ‘Weekly Portrait’ see it here if you…
Weekly Portrait #13 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Roy Roy – Prog, Rock and…
Weekly Portrait #12 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Michelle Michelle from Perfection Health and…
Weekly Portrait #11 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Mark Member of the Tsalagi (Cherokee)…
Weekly Portrait #10 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Joanna Ceramic Artist – Meet Cleaver…
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Weekly Portrait #9 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Scarlett Time to introduce the first…
Nissi is looking for her forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue Who can say no…
Weekly Portrait #8 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Dan Painting under the name Paynes…
Indie needs a forever home – Happily Ever After Dog Rescue Indie was rescued from Romania after…
Weekly Portrait #7.5 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – JJ Special treat for you –…
Weekly Portrait #7 – “People I now know” (Working Title) – Nav Taking me on a new…
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 I told you this brief was…
Weekly Portrait #4 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Nicola For those of you who missed…
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 For those of you who missed…
Weekly Portrait #2 – “People I know” (Working Title) – Ben For those of you who missed…
For 2016 I have set myself a little challenge/project – I am going to shoot a self…
Reworked an image from last summer for some new promotional material. What do you think?
Scarlett, aged 3&1/2, climbed Glastonbury Tor solo today for the first time! Except for a firm handhold…
I think this is probably the first technical post I have made about my work and process….
My first professional photography job was with LAT Photographic, part of Haymarket Publishing, I was an ‘Archivist’…
Every Thursday, and some Tuesdays I drop Scarlett of at pre-school, it was a pretty special kind…
Please can I ask you all to sign this petition to help Sandra, she is possibly the…
My Brothers youngest had her 6th birthday on Saturday, T, S and I went down to Fleet…
Whilst in Cambridge at the weekend we had to wash stinky Murphy, he seemed to like all…
A few weeks back I learned via a Facebook post a previous client and fellow Malmesbury resident…
Fantastic and busy few days! Thursday drive up to Cambridge for the beautiful wedding of Harriet and…
Whenever we visit Kylie’s family in and around Glastonbury, we always make time to climb the Tor,…
During our holiday near the North Cornwall Coast I seem to have produced Panoramic iPhone images of…
The holiday cottage has no WiFi, quiet nice really! Yesterday we went to Crackington Haven and…
I spent most of the day building a bridge over the ditch at the top of Granny’s…
I love an engagement shoot, especially when its my cousin Sarah and her fiancé Olly. Also helps…
Strange mix of technologies today. Here are Polaroid photographs of T & S on the steps to…
An image from Saturdays Portrait shoot at Roundway Hill. A bit of an outtake/intake. Love it when clients…
Today Scarlett and Tallulah decided to spend the afternoon as Batgirl and Spidergirl, much posturing and dramatic…
I’m shooting more and more business portraits, they don’t have to be tight and dull, there is…
There are not enough, flour, egg and milk based food day celebrations so today we had ‘Banana…
Year 1 and Pre-School homework done, special things in Scarlett’s life and I now know more about…
Jelly_Cat! After a fanfic 10 minute portrait shoot, I waited for the sunshine to shoot Solar Park…
Scarlett likes to find the best place to sit. Mummy sorting out her work diary, her feet…
Spent all day chasing the weather – and cursing it! I know it won’t change when you…
Family #dogwalktherapy with Granny and Poppy too. Mid-walk Waitrose stop for coffee and cake. After noon of…
DIY day, mainly building shelves! But did get interrupted by this little fella. And also found…
Went to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with Tallulah’s Class today, thankfully 7 other adults too! The…
Wow that was a busy Summer Holidays, work diary and family life mixed, matched and left very…
Sunny Summer Weekend – except for the thunder storm bit – time to get the paddling…
Welcome to my new website, the first time that I have had all my photographic work one…