Saturday.
This was a full weekend running festival. Starting Saturday in the beautiful Kew Gardens with just over 4,500 runners taking part in the first 10k around the gardens.
I had two locations for this event, the first was intended to capture the runners around 1k after the start which is always a challenge as the runners are still all bunched up and it can be very difficult to identify them individually as they run past. With so many runners I still managed to photograph many of them, and plenty gave me a wave as they passed by.
My second location was a short walk away and was as the runners came out of the rose garden area. They were all still in good spirts when they came past with some waving and even jumping for me which made for some great photos for them.
Sunday.
The second day was the full and half marathons along the River Thames through Richmond. Again, this event had around 5,000 runners, my first position was 5k in and I was able to get the Richmond Bridge in the background to give location to the images. Using a wide-angle lens to get dynamic images along with utilising the zoom to select individual runners and get close up photos of them. At this location I was just off the Heathrow runway and had many planes taking off overhead, so I had to take a couple of photos as this was the second time in two weeks I was at the end of a runway. Hopefully next time I will be heading towards a plane and some sunshine!
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