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Kagay Whitewater Rafting - Philippines : We had a realy great time with Howard and Gary, our Cagayan De Oro River Guides today. We tackled 24 rapids over a 16km length of the river and it was just great! Check out page two of this gallery for some fun-in-the-hole action at Cloud Ten! I bet Love Mae that she would fall out first and more often than me too. How wrong could I be! I fell out first and three times to her masterful once!

Many thanks to all at Kagay Whitewater Rafting! The website is here:-

http://www.cdorafting-map.com 

and we suggest that you go there ad do this!!

Kagay Whitewater Rafting - Philippines

We had a realy great time with Howard and Gary, our Cagayan De Oro Riv ...

Updated: Dec 20, 2009 6:08pm PST

British Open 2009 : 




These images are from The British Open at Llangollen 2009 and captured for us by David Steen. 

If you would like any of these images, we can send you a CD containing the images you select of any one competitor (this includes C2 pairs). All we ask is a small donation towards the camera equipment purse as follows:-  For 3 images - £10  For 6 images - £15  For 10 images £20.  Donations include post and packing :-) Please remember to state the gallery title and complete image numbers! Please click on the appropriate PayPal buttons below as appropriate or alternatively email us at info@clevercaptures.com for details of alternative payment. 





















We are keeping our donations as low as possible whilst still bringing you the highest quality images we can achieve. So please support our labours (and our equipment kitty) and we will continue to bring you more! Feel free to leave any comments here as feedback would be very welcome!
ENJOY! 


Peter & Love Mae

British Open 2009

These images are from The British Open at Llangollen 2009 an ...

Updated: Dec 21, 2009 6:36am PST

Bedford Statues at Night : On the night that the 2009 Christmas lights were turned on, I wandered around a few of Bedfords landmark features to capture them at night with the unusual hustle of people instead in vacant streets. Of course, several people asked to appear in the images and so here they are! I did ask them to stand very still due to the one or two second exposure times so any fuzziness is not my doing - its them moving! 

The new "faces" sculpture at the top of Silver Street is stunning in daylight but with the permanent uplighters even more so. I think it is a tad large for the setting but I still really like them :-) Well done its creator, Rick Kirby. The almost as recent sculpture near the Town Bridge commemorating the 1st generation Italians arriving here is also really nice but the location is not really fitting and there is no illumination. I hope this gets moved to a better location at some point.

ENJOY!

Bedford Statues at Night

On the night that the 2009 Christmas lights were turned on, I wandered ...

Updated: Nov 18, 2009 7:44pm PST

Sapra Firing Range - Philippines : We attended the Iligan Rifleman's Cup event at the sapra Firing Range this weekend. This is an amazing range set partly in a quarry with a mountain backdrop. Targets are located at 200m 250m and 300m at various locations on the mountainside. Safety is good here with good communication all round :-) We were observing the 200m competition and took some images that we hope capture some of the elements of the sport that are not immediately obvious. Love Mae and I, together with our friend Ana Marie tried our hand also. I was pleased to outshoot my wife of course so that my male ego remains undamaged! Over 200m the ammunition will follow a parabolic curve that takes it up to 350mm above the target before dropping down to strike it. We wish to thank the guys who were so friendly and accommodating and we hope they enjoy enjoy these images :-)

Sapra Firing Range - Philippines

We attended the Iligan Rifleman's Cup event at the sapra Firing Range ...

Updated: Dec 12, 2009 9:15am PST

Your Bio

We are Peter & Love Mae Parker based in Bedford, England.

We really enjoy capturing "moments in time" in digital images that bring pleasure to those who appear in them, their family, friends and all who see them. This moment in time could be as brief as 1/8000th of a second – fast enough to capture a fraction of the existence of countless drops of water as they fly through the air like diamonds before disappearing back into the thundering white water they were thrown from. Alternatively it could be 64,000 times slower - at 8 seconds – slow enough to capture the entire life of a firework, radiant in the night sky, from its detonation, throughout its spectacular display to a fading ember and its demise. All of this is seen by the eye, as it happens, but we are unable to recall it in such incredible detail and clarity as can be achieved with the awesome Canon technology and equipment that we use.

We have two objectives:- 1.To enjoy our photography! 2. To bring others enjoyment in the form of the high quality images produced.

In fact, the first is wholly dependent upon the second! What pleasure would a chef have if his perfectly prepared meal were not tasted by anyone? The pleasure of preparing the dish is incomplete unless enjoyed also by somebody else and we feel the same way about our visual “dishes”. So welcome to our “feast for the eyes” where you can eat and be merry because here your eyes can be much bigger than your belly yet you will always have room for more!

Many people do not have the equipment to take high quality images and others, such as athletes, competitors and performers, wish to be featured in them but do not have anyone present to take them. It is, therefore, our pleasure to make high quality images available to everyone who is unable to obtain them for whatever reason.

Please note that we enjoy our photography not as a business but, instead, as a self-funding hobby. Accordingly, rather than a fee, we ask only for a small donation towards our photographic equipment fund plus postage costs when you ask us to send you a CD with any of our images on. We shoot at sporting events, community events, group events, festivals, shows etc so have a look through our various categories and galleries and see what we have been doing and where we have been. If you wish to obtain any of the images, please look in each gallery for the specific details of how you can do this. If you do not find them within the gallery that you are interested in, please email us at info@clevercaptures.com with your requirements. Most of the categories and galleries are for public viewing but some are private requiring password access. These tend to be personal images of family gatherings or other private functions where the images would not be available to anyone other than those featured.

Please note we typically only supply digital images on a CD and we do not offer printing of regular size images. However, if you require larger prints, calendars or photobooks, please email us with your requirements. Our 20" x 30" posters on high grade photopaper are awesome! All images supplied will be much larger and much better quality than those seen here online and without any watermarking. Please take a look in our Sample Gallery to see some larger images without watermarking to get a better idea of what you can expect on a CD.

Whatever your reason for viewing our images, we hope you like them! Enjoy!

Suggested Links:-

http://www.canoeslalom.co.uk (Thanks Nick!)
http://www.eastwestpromotions.co.uk (Thanks Mike!)
http://www.galeforce-events.com (Thanks Steve!)
http://www.scamps2009.org.uk (Thanks Liz!)
http://www.youtube.com/slalomvids
http://www.broxbournewhitewatercanoecentre.co.uk
http://www.myspace.com/clevercaptures

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