http://www.alanspink.com/news Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:20:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Or the on going adventures of Rob Spink and Greg Mairs, Hopes were high as we flew into Belfast to meet up with Greg, to take on the Irish on their own country, Alas any thoughts of taking home any precious metal from the U17 Gold event were soon dashed when first match ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/badkidz/down-and-out-in-belfast.html Just under three weeks to go now before the 2010 English National Badminton Championships, 05-07th Feb.  The profile of this event has been improving over the last few years and the 2010 event should see some of the younger English players stamping their names on the trophies for the first ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/english-national-badminton-championships-2010.html Coming soon, (badkidz - kids who play badminton) News from the world of  Badminton, English U11, U13, U15, U17 and U19 National Championships, reports and photos, Also English Nationals, 100th All England Championships and European Individual Championships. My hope is that this will become an interesting and worthwhile exercise. If you have any ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/badkidz/badkidz.html 2009 - Its been a tough year!  No doubt about it, while everything started well enough, by October it really felt like the wheels had come off! Repeat jobs were not bringing in anywhere near as much income and worst of all some loyal customers did not get in touch ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/new-friends-old-friends.html [caption id="attachment_74" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Rachel - Jenna - Lani"][/caption] British Kayak Championships - Indoors! - No water! how do they do that then? Well it's all down to the genius of Grayson Bourne at www.kayakpro.com and his amazing machines. Never afraid to photograph something different off we went to Brunel University, to capture ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/indoor-kayaking.html Nice to know that everytime someone logs on to the www.badmintonengland.co.uk website the first image they always see is one of  my images, Liz Cann from Jersey.   Liz has just come back from injury and I hope to we working with her again the near future. Regards Alan. http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/badminton-england.html [caption id="attachment_56" align="alignleft" width="230" caption="Mark Sellwood for Ashaway"][/caption] Badminton racket and string manufacturer Ashaway have purchased on of my images for use on their website and the front page of their product catalouge. The photo of  Warwickshire player Mark Sellwood can just be seen peeping out from behind the main title graphic. For ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/ashway-advert-2009.html [caption id="attachment_51" align="alignleft" width="213" caption="Nationals Badminton Poster 2010"][/caption] Nice surprise today. The  poster for the English National Badminton Championships 2010 was unveiled on the www.badmintonengland.co.uk website.  The shot of Jenny Wallwork is one of mine from last years event. Great to see some emotion from one of England's stars of the future, ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/national-badminton-championships-2010.html At long last! Canon announced the D1 MKIV today see here:- http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=3108&productID=349&articleTypeID=125 Time to dust off the cheque book and replace my aging D1 MKIIn, well yes, along with half the photographers on the planet. If you shoot indoors without flash then is probably going to be a must have camera. However if ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/canon-d1-mkiv.html About half of my income comes from shooting events, either on my own through www.actionphotography.co.uk or working other photographers. (shooting and printing on the day)  Over the last few weeks I've been working for www.mysportspix.net and we have been trialing version 2.1.26 of www.eventphotosytems.com event software. I have to say at first I ... http://www.alanspink.com/news/latest-news/event-photography-sytems.html