95 Year Old Man is the Youngest to do this...

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As ever it's been a while since I posted here, so 'Hello!' and thanks for checking back. There has been busyness in the photo world with a variety of local shoots. Artist of the Month shoots for Cornwall Today magazine always provide interesting people, frequently with amazing art works, and I feel privileged to be able to photograph this aspect of the creative Cornish life. 

Mary Mabbutt, Cornwall Today, May 2014
Rachael Kantaris, Cornwall Today, June 2014
I usually shoot quite a few pictures when we (writer Alex Wade and I) visit the artists, of which sometimes only three will make it on to the printed page, so it's great for the other images get an outing too. You can now find the rest of the shoot in the magazine's new Artists Gallery.

So much for culture, for God's sake tell us about the extreme sports! I hear you cry. Well the surfing end of the extreme sports spectrum is alive and well in Cornwall, with Spring time blue swells aplenty thundering in to our shores I can report. Though not for me, alas, with a major (read minor) surfing related injury keeping me out of the water for six weeks that I've been bleating on and on about, in a Man-Flu kind of way, to the point where no-one wants to hear any more about it and I've become virtually friendless. Although, to be fair to me, it did require one whole month's worth of physio to correct. Physio which, it turns out, needed to be more painful than the initial injury was in the first place. Hearing 'This is going to hurt!' from your physio while lying prostrate on a gurney with your back exposed did not inspire the pain-reducing healing I sought.

However, the pain passed and normal service has now been largely returned to my physical being, and I managed to swim out to shoot this little video on an unseasonably, but not unwelcome, hot May day.....


Click 1080p in the settings, then Widescreen for best effect.

And this week's quirky shoot was Tom Lackey, a grandfather, celebrating his 95th birthday by going for a wing walk to raise money for Cancer Research. From Land's End airport to the Scilly Isles, 26 miles away, and despite being in a wheel chair. 

Tom Lackey, 95

A quick circuit of the airfield


On his way to the Scilly Isles
Perhaps an easy stunt for Tom, 95, having already crossed the Irish Sea and the Channel (there and back) on the wing to collect numerous world records. This one makes him the first as well as the oldest (he's 95) wing walker to cross to Scilly, ensuring his place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Presumably if he's the first and oldest to do this crossing, he's also the first and youngest?

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