About Us
Bob Given BSc DBA LBIPP DPAGB
Bob’s early passions were for watching steam trains and playing rugby.
He got his first camera as a 21st birthday present and, after a few weeks practice, snapping the family and pets, started to create landscapes and snatch sporting action shots.
Bob is a dedicated photographer of land, sea and townscapes, both close to home in Northern Ireland, and as far away as time and funds will allow. He has a keen eye for texture and detail, and a series of classic images will be interspersed with abstract views and close-ups of smaller features.
Over the past 30 years Bob has recorded rugby, soccer, gaelic football, cricket, hockey, swimming, athletics, boxing, gymnastics, marathon, archery, target-shooting, rowing, sailing, water-skiing, motor racing, motorcycling and powerboat events.
In 1990 he was the first (and only) amateur photographer to win the title of Northern Bank Sports Photographer of the Year, and was Northern Bank Amateur Sports Photographer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
In 1999, he was awarded the Distinction of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain for a panel of 16 slides. In September 2008 he was accepted into the British Institute of Professional Photographers, as a Licentiate, following his submission of a panel of 20 photographs from recent weddings.
Bob uses the skills and techniques learned from his landscape and action photography in his portraiture, family studies and event photography. While he is encouraging his subjects to relax, and composing formal and informal pictures, he remains alert for the un-planned opportunity, when he needs to anticipate movement, compose and capture a shot in a moment.
Bob started his photography career using a Yashica 35mm SLR. After a series of Olympus 35mm cameras, he switched to Canon EOS 35mm. He finally ‘went digital’ in 2004, with a Canon EOS 1D2.
The move to digital photography inspired me to take up photography again, and to become Bob's assistant at sports events and particularly at weddings, occasions where an extra person can always be useful.
Annie Given
writing from long experience!
He got his first camera as a 21st birthday present and, after a few weeks practice, snapping the family and pets, started to create landscapes and snatch sporting action shots.
Bob is a dedicated photographer of land, sea and townscapes, both close to home in Northern Ireland, and as far away as time and funds will allow. He has a keen eye for texture and detail, and a series of classic images will be interspersed with abstract views and close-ups of smaller features.
Over the past 30 years Bob has recorded rugby, soccer, gaelic football, cricket, hockey, swimming, athletics, boxing, gymnastics, marathon, archery, target-shooting, rowing, sailing, water-skiing, motor racing, motorcycling and powerboat events.
In 1990 he was the first (and only) amateur photographer to win the title of Northern Bank Sports Photographer of the Year, and was Northern Bank Amateur Sports Photographer of the Year in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
In 1999, he was awarded the Distinction of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain for a panel of 16 slides. In September 2008 he was accepted into the British Institute of Professional Photographers, as a Licentiate, following his submission of a panel of 20 photographs from recent weddings.
Bob uses the skills and techniques learned from his landscape and action photography in his portraiture, family studies and event photography. While he is encouraging his subjects to relax, and composing formal and informal pictures, he remains alert for the un-planned opportunity, when he needs to anticipate movement, compose and capture a shot in a moment.
Bob started his photography career using a Yashica 35mm SLR. After a series of Olympus 35mm cameras, he switched to Canon EOS 35mm. He finally ‘went digital’ in 2004, with a Canon EOS 1D2.
The move to digital photography inspired me to take up photography again, and to become Bob's assistant at sports events and particularly at weddings, occasions where an extra person can always be useful.
Annie Given
writing from long experience!