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Ian Badley
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I try to capture light, and its ever changing effect on the physical world in which we live. Without light there is no colour and we are unable to see. The varying luminescence of light and its temperature alters those colours, from cold blues through warm reds to monochrome at low light levels. I use these physical changes that occur throughout the day, night and seasons, to work towards achieving the aims I set myself.

Locations are researched well in advance and I often spend days returning to the same place and then hours waiting for the correct conditions to capture the scene. This, coupled with the fact that the suns’ relative position moves constantly, and we only get one of each season per year, means that a single image may take months of painstaking work to capture.

I entered the world back in 1957 and now live with my wife Julia in of the New Forest, Hampshire and have two, twenty plus year old daughters who keep leaving home for work and travel – and then return!

I first took up photography seriously in the late 1970’s using Olympus cameras photographing motorsport and now my professional career includes travel, sailing and landscape photography, commissions, commercial work and photographic workshops.

The Photographic Workshops are run througout the UK including the New Forest, Dorset, Lake District, Isle of Wight, Jersey, and Europe, where I venture to Tuscany and Provence France. In addition, I take guests out on private ‘One to One’ sessions and run workshops designed for beginners and improvers in the New Forest and surrounding areas called PhotoTreks. These Phototreks are also run for the National Trust, country estates and prestigious hotels.

Back in my teens I started sailing as a hobby, which has continued into adulthood and evolved into being a qualified Coastal Skipper possessing Yachtmaster theory qualifications as well. Combining the art and knowledge of sailing with my use of light in photography, mixes to produce exciting action photographs and subtle evocative images, which I have developed into a specialist form shown in my new website, www.PhotoSailing.co.uk

My images have sold (thankfully) around the world for travel guides, books, calendars, etc and have been used on BBC news items, national newspapers and numerous magazines, both retail and in house business magazines.

2009 saw the my first book publication, Portrait of the Isle of Wight, which provides a pictorial overview of the beautiful south coast island, with more books planned.

Commissions are also undertaken for magazines, books and commercial clients including Time Out in London.

My cameras change according to the requirements and I use Lee filters with Giottos tripods and of course the excellent Lowepro camera bags and rucksacks. On the occasions nowadays that I use film, it is predominantly Fuji Velia or their Instant film on the back of my Hasselblad.

Thank you for your interest. If you would like me to keep you updated with my activities, then please E-Mail Ian Badley Photography here
Ian Badley