FRIDAY FOTO WINNER! - Rockarchive.com

14/08/2009

Rockarchive's Friday Foto competition is a little bit of fun for all music photographers of any standard. Basically follow us on Twitter or Facebook, any social site you can find us on, and await your instructions! Our team will announce each week that the contest is on, then send in your latest best photo you have taken with in the field of music, on Friday of that week a winner will be announced! This repeats itself each week until we have 8 Friday Foto winners, then we pick a winner of winners! The prize will be to have info featured here on a Rockarchive news article which will be linked to our newsletter that goes out to thousands of people all over the world! Ontop of that, the photographer will receive an A2 print of their winning photo! What could be better!

The winner of winners of the 1st Friday Foto Competition is...

David Baird (winning image - Shane McGowan, top right)

Describing his passion for photography as having been born out of 'the realisation that I couldn't paint', David has mastered the intricacies of the darkroom and taken its secrets to the digital world.

Having photographed bands in and around Liverpool and Manchester, he went on to study photography at Nottingham Trent University before earning himself a job assisting acclaimed Rock photographer Denis O'Regan. With the opportunity to cover events such as Live 8 and Download festival, his portfolio and passion for the rock and roll world of music photography grew until he was hooked.

Still living in Nottingham, and now working in media and communications, he continues to indulge his passions as a freelance photographer, ever grateful for opportunities to combine his love for travel with commissions for fashion and ski magazines. An interest in disabled sport sees him working on a project to document the run up to the 2012 Olympics in London, including a documentary on Richard Whitehead - a double amputee world record breaking marathon runner - which is set to mark his emergence into the world of the moving image.

Music photography however, remains an important and much loved part of David's career. His own shots of some of the finest acts from across the globe continue to dazzle, but his technical knowledge and expertise now see him regularly assisting countless agencies and photographers in getting their images onto the wire, and out to the world.

To see more work from David's diverse portfolio visit www.david-baird.co.uk

Email : david@david-baird.co.uk

Website: www.david-baird.co.uk

Phone: +44 (0) 7976072867

Twitter: www.twitter.com/davidbaird85

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