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Get to know your photographers!
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We feel very lucky to be doing the job we love and working
together in harmony (most of the time!). We met in 2003
at a geeky camera club, fell in love instantly, and
decided to stick a pin in the map to start a new life
together. It landed on Bournemouth, we moved, and Taylor
Made Photography was born. It goes without saying that
we're passionate about photography, but here's a bit
more about us:
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~ Rachel ~ |
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Outside photography, my passion is remote places,
extreme environments and how people survive them.
It's grown to be quite an obsession and our bookshelves
are stuffed with travel books and true survival stories.
The more remote a place, the more it interests me.
Recently,
I voyaged to the world's most remote island,
Tristan da Cunha (right). The weather is often
too violent to land, but I was fortunate enough
to spend six days with the islanders. Highlights
were seeing the island appear through rolling
fog, trying to stand up in a hurricane and falling
off the ship's ladder into a longboat!
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Dave
wholeheartedly supports my travel dreams, so
much so that we spent our honeymoon on a cramped
research vessel in Antarctica (left). It wasn't
the most romantic of honeymoons (bunk beds!)
but we got to set foot on many islands along
the Antarctic Peninsular, coming face to face
with seals, penguins, glaciers and fast-forming
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We recently came
back from western Scotland (right) where we
merrily camped in a bog at the end of a 10-mile
lane, but our latest venture is quite a biggy:
we want to lose weight, get fit and trek to
Everest Base Camp. We've a long way to go,
but the goal is set and we'll try our best
to realise it. No more kebabs or wine for
me ...
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Aside from that
I am a qualified life coach, which is rewarding,
as is writing and publishing books. My first book
was The
Punctuation Posse. I'm currently working
on a series of life-coaching books (Step by
Step Guides), a series of children's narratives
(The Grunts Collection) and of course
a book about my weight loss journey to Everest
Base Camp. In short, I laugh a lot, smile a lot
and love to imagine that all dreams can come true! |
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~ Dave ~ |
I am a bit of a geek. I love anything geekified, which
is why we are completely self-taught photographers -
I like to find my way around a camera, understand its
functions in relation to particular shots, and experiment
a bit. Photography is a constant learning curve so it
keeps me entertained; it is a never-ending challenge
which is why it suits me so well - I enjoy the process
of learning new techniques, styles and approaches. My
new Android phone also keeps me entertained, as it has
virtually stuck itself to my hand and is slowly becoming
my brain ...
I love to entertain and am a dab hand at dinner parties
(far, far better than my wife who has never followed
a recipe in her life). Combining eating with the outdoors
is even better; barbeques on the beach, picnics in the
forest, chips on a bench - just being outdoors and eating
makes me feel happy! I enjoy cycling and hiking in particular,
and recently managed to walk both down and back up the
foreboding Masca Gorge in Tenerife, which was easily
the toughest walk I have ever done.
Our forthcoming adventure
might prove to be a bit tougher, however,
but I am looking forward to the sense of achievement
that will come with standing in the footsteps
of amazing climbers. I prefer quiet places
away from the crowd, where I can be at one
with nature and have some time to ponder life's
great mysteries.
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That's about it, aside from enjoying English films,
keeping up to date with the goings on in space exploration
and reading geeky internet sites on my phone. Yep, it
always come back to geek :o) |
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