Getty Images: Skiing in Bansko
Successfully fusing professional assignments with personal hobbies is a pleasure afforded to few of us. When a window of opportunity arose, then, for Mike Harrington to travel out to Bulgaria to produce a set of lifestyle photographs around his favoured theme of skiing, he made sure, upon his return, to emphasise his appreciation of his experience as he asked me to share some of it with you.
Mike has just arrived back in the UK from a week at the Bansko Ski Resort, in the south-west of Bulgaria, which, in addition to its increasing popularity and excellent value for money, also boasts the most modern facilities of all the skiing resorts in the country, with a recent investment of millions of euros to create a new skiing area, alongside current investments in hotels and other facilities to cement the resort’s claim to be Bulgaria’s top skiing resort.
Mike’s clear enthusiasm for skiing did not distract him from his task, however: to produce fifty images showcasing skiing as a lifestyle choice, for sale worldwide through Getty Images. The project was self-initiated, with a firm focus upon producing photographs of the highest quality, along with developing Mike’s own capabilities and his expertise in photographing in extreme locations.
With these aims in mind, he teamed up with a former member of the England junior skiing team who now teaches there, who possessed precisely the degree of skill that Mike wished to showcase in his images. The importance of working with models sufficiently competent to perform the tasks required of them cannot be overemphasised – and Mike was enormously appreciative of the ease with which he was able to produce photographs such as this, time and time again:
Mike has just arrived back in the UK from a week at the Bansko Ski Resort, in the south-west of Bulgaria, which, in addition to its increasing popularity and excellent value for money, also boasts the most modern facilities of all the skiing resorts in the country, with a recent investment of millions of euros to create a new skiing area, alongside current investments in hotels and other facilities to cement the resort’s claim to be Bulgaria’s top skiing resort.
Mike’s clear enthusiasm for skiing did not distract him from his task, however: to produce fifty images showcasing skiing as a lifestyle choice, for sale worldwide through Getty Images. The project was self-initiated, with a firm focus upon producing photographs of the highest quality, along with developing Mike’s own capabilities and his expertise in photographing in extreme locations.
With these aims in mind, he teamed up with a former member of the England junior skiing team who now teaches there, who possessed precisely the degree of skill that Mike wished to showcase in his images. The importance of working with models sufficiently competent to perform the tasks required of them cannot be overemphasised – and Mike was enormously appreciative of the ease with which he was able to produce photographs such as this, time and time again:
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