Photography Workshops in France
A lifetime in photography
"I get a tremendous buzz from seeing a great picture on my Canon’s screen. It’s still the same thrill I experienced seeing a negative or transparency 30-odd years ago. Nothing changes over the years; the sense of personal satisfaction I get when a shot pleases me is still there"
A lifetime in photography
Highlights of his career include :
- Top level news and sports coverage for the national press.
- World Snooker at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, at that time the nation's top spectator sport.
- A visit to The Falkland Islands sponsored by the government.
- Tiny tots for the nation's baby magazines (including his own twin boys).
- Glamour for magazines and calendars world-wide.
- Dynamic images of high-performance jet aircraft.
- An image library of over 50 thousand pictures.
- Stunning artworks for home and commercial premises.
David Muscroft never actually planned to be a photographer. By fortuitous ‘bad luck’ his original career goal (of being a pilot in the RAF) was just not to be: “I must have been the only 17 year old on the aptitude tests to fail absolutely everything”, recalls David. However, being nuts about aeroplanes did encourage him to take pictures of them at any opportunity, and then of almost every other subject available to him.
David started his photo-journalist wanderings with a camera when he was about 15. Relatives lived on the outskirts of London, and he would take the Central Line tube into town and explore the capital. David admits to playing hooky from sixth form to be out and about with his first camera, and then sending the results to magazines such as Amateur Photographer.
In later years, and with the aid of a driver’s license, he would drive around Kent shooting anything which took his fancy, and then submitting prints to publications such as Country Life, Kent Life and This England. In fact his love of travel photography started at this time. He has recently received a reproduction fee for such an image submitted to a county magazine around 30 years ago!
When he left sixth form he took a job as a trainee snapper on his local paper. David's career proper started with top level news and sports coverage for the national press, in particular during the 1980’s the World Snooker at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre, at that time the nation’s top spectator sport.
In 1986 David visited and photographed extensively the Falkland Islands, sponsored by the Government, and resulting in his specialist site www.falklandspictorial.co.uk
Then his ‘specialist subjects’ continued with images of tiny tots for the nation’s baby magazines (including his own twin boys), Page 3 girls for magazines and calendars world-wide, dynamic images of high-performance jet aircraft (eventually indulging his personal love of everything aviation).
His travels with a camera are represented by well over 10.000 images on major stock photography sites, as well as editorial images for all manner of publications worldwide.
David now creates much of his work in his ‘second home’ at the Old Pharmacy in Magalas, Languedoc-Roussillon. You can join David and share his passion for photography during one of his workshops in this visually stunning region of southern France.
See an overview of his work at; www.davidmuscroft.co.uk