background . .

I've been running since 1985, and been a member of several clubs since then as I've relocated from time to time. My pb days are far behind me, the only chance I have of one nowadays being when I find a distance I've not raced before! I've 45 marathons in my legs, almost 100 half's and countless shorter races too, plus a couple of ultras for good measure.

Now working as a Cartographer in Aylesbury, I'm happy to be a member of Tring Running Club.

I began taking photos at races in 2002 when I met a group of people I'd come to know in the Runner's World internet Forum at the Dublin Marathon. Several of them remain friends to this day. I thought it would be a shame not to let the others see the photos and so I found a bit of free web space and posted the photos. And I did it again for a couple more running events and soon it became a habit.

Very soon my free web space was too restricting and I needed to grow, and so www richk co uk was born, and in the days before Flickr, people I hadn't met began sending me photos of races I'd never heard of to add to my website, which has continued to grow as time has gone by.

In 2009 I decided to take things to a new level and take photos commercially, and by the end of the year I'd been the *Official Photographer* at 14 races and 1 duathlon, with more lined up for the new year. Whilst I was planning all this I realised that although I was already well known in places like Runners World and Fetcheveryone as RichK, I needed to call my operation something that was more obvious, that says what I do, and is simple to remember and so I in the summer of 2009 I became

www theracephotographer com

because what could be simpler than that?

race/event organisers . .

I plan to continue to take the same approach to my photography and the races I go to, trying to use my photos and my observations to get across the atmosphere of the event I've been to, and the enjoyment that we all get from having taken part in a well-organised race with lots of other like-minded people around us.

So if you organise a race or a running event, and you'd like a photostory of your event, and you'd also like the people that take part to be able to obtain a memento of their day at a reasonable price, please get in touch with me, and I'll come along and do my best to capture a memento of your event that every one who's part of the day can look back on

I used to be a runner who took photographs, now I'm a photographer who runs a bit . .

www theracephotographer com . . . . much more than a page of photographs

thanks for having a look at my site, keep coming back won't, and if you see me at a race, please come and say hello . .

updated December 2010

Many thanks to Ant and Sally Bliss of Sussex Sports Photography for the above photos, taken at the 2010 Abingdon Marathon, and to a former colleague Brian Lewis for the photo below, taken of me during the 1986 Bath Half Marathon and which is the oldest photo I have of me running . .