I received an e mail from Simon at Yorkshire Gun Dogs to see if I was interested in going along and photographing his working dogs.
I agreed to this and a date was arranged agreement reached over a pint of beer has Simon says only way possible.
On the evening of the shoot we met in the lovely village of South Cave,where I followed Simon to the location of the shoot on arriving it was a photographers dream , weather perfect and the surroundings beautiful altogether things were looking good,we had a chat and discussed how we were going to progress, Simon first of all let the 6 gorgeous spaniels out together mad came to mind but one word of command from Simon and instant obedience was observed.
We then worked the first 2 and what a pleasure it was , think the old lad of the party loved having his photo taken ,whenever he saw the camera sure he was smiling vain was the word I am looking for ,no not Simon the dog,we took numerous images both working the rough and in the lake,we did this then for the other 5 dogs which at all times were very obedient and constantly working and doing as they were told,but if you had to have a favourite along came cracker , cracker by name and cracker by nature we just loved him.At the end of the shoot Simon let them all have a run together and my thought was where do they get all there energy , they still wanted more.
All I can say it was a great evening and Simon must be proud of the dogs but they are only like they are due to the training they have received, at all times Simon is so professional and trains them with a cool non aggressive manner which the dogs repay him with great standards of work. Simon really surprised me when he told me 2 of the dogs are only 4 months old ,incredible to be so well trained when really they are still pups,
Yorkshire Gun Dogs can be proud of what they are achieving and I am proud to say I am now there official photographer.
Simon well done....