We have been photographing equestrian events for a number of years now primarily focusing on three day eventing, with CCI**, CCI*** and CCI**** events throughout Europe. Travelling the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, and also covering many other international locations, which proves to be an extremely busy session from March through to October.

Tim and Bev are now the official photographers for Team Fredericks, (Clayton and Lucinda). Clayton is at present  the FEI World's number one and Rolex Kentucky 2007 Champion. Lucinda is the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials 2007 champion.

For the second year we are the official photographers for Badminton Horse Trials Ltd and we now represent the ERA (Event Riders Association).

With regular inclusions to Horse and Hound (UK's number one horse  and eventing publication) and many other international publications, our work is well publicised.

Tim and Bev always attend events together, so there are always two photographers covering every event from two different angles, whether it be a small novice event or international three day event. We like to pride ourselves on customer service and to differentiate ourselves from others, we focus on quality, customer satisfaction and a creative style envied by many other photographers.

Previously we shot all our commercial photography on Kodak film with medium format cameras. 2¼" x 2¼" square images, and all our sport and event and social photography on Nikon F3, FM2 and FE2  35mm Kodak film.  Now everything is digital with 12.4 million pixel cameras, able to take pictures at 9 frames per second using the very latest Nikon professional range of equipment and with the full backing of the Nikon professional service scheme,  reassuring our customers that the equipment is at its optimum for every event and commission. How things have changed!

As our coverage grows, so does our library, with well over 130,000 photographs just of events, riders and horses from every conceivable angle, it is a job on its own filing and managing that many images.

Because there is two of use we are able to cover so much more than one single photographer and also able to focus our efforts to single areas of the course or arena, which over the years has paid dividends, when previously we had wish we had been at another fence or angle within a show jumping arena.

We plan to have very soon our new online photographic library, to compliment out current client viewing area, in addition to our gallery. This will our customers to select from the vast array of images and to view and purchase any of the images.

Aside from viewing our portfolio, please feel free to browse the whole site, including our recent events to get a better idea of the standard of work we offer.

To learn more about the services offered by Optimal Photography, please call or email Bev or Emma with any questions you may have. Thanks for your interest in Optimal Photography and we look forward to speaking with you.