As you may have noticed from my website, rowing in all its forms, is one of my favourite sports. Recently I have grabbed some of Pete Reed's precious time in between his training for the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing to shoot with him. Pete is a 2x world champion rower, and with his crewmates, one of Team GB's best hopes for Olympic Gold this summer.
The first photoshoot we did together was a documentary style shoot of a typical training session at GB Rowing Headquarters in Caversham, and we have just done an off the water, style shoot with a retro Henley theme at the Amateur Rowing Association Boat House at Hammersmith Bridge on the River Thames, London, the day after the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. Pete being a former Oxford Boat Race crewmember was naturally ecstatic that Oxford had won the day before. We were very ably assisted by Pete's girlfriend Sally who is also the brains behind Pete's new website (www.petereed.co.uk).
So the best of luck to Pete, his training partner Andy Hodge, and all the British Olympic rowing crews at the upcoming Olympics. By the way Pete is great to work with so if you want to run a feature on him in your publication I'm sure he'll be up for it as long as you bear in mind his very tight training schedule. He has already appeared in Cosmo along with his crewmates (or if you would be interested in using existing images from these shoots for editorial purposes please contact Pete or me directly).
The best thing about shooting with Pete is that you get to eat like an Olympic rower afterwards and eating is my second favourite sport after rowing!!
Pete can be contacted via his website at WWW.PETEREED.CO.UK
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