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Papa Tony... aka Bob Hope... aka Tony Audenshaw
I took the kids, well 2 of them in to see the London Marathon on Sunday with the intention of getitng some cool shots and building on my 100 strangers project. We had a great time !! The girls really enjoyed watching the "funny costumes" run past and I really enjoyed getting some shots of the fancy dress runners. The chap pictured here was running as a smurf. We saw him go past.... he did a great time 3:15 (which is 6 minutes faster than my pb AND he is in fancy dress) Respect.
As we were leaving a little later I saw him on the path behind us. I just had to get his photo as #10/100 for my 100 strangers project so I approached him. He was very willing to oblige and even posed as a victorious Smurf would. As I was speaking to him therre was a little "spark of recognition" and I thought I knew who he was. I knew "Bob Hope" from Emmerdale (a British soap for you international flickrites) was a great runner and had done previous London Marathons in fancy dress. I also recognised his voice from my wife watching Emmerdale on the TV. A quick check of his running number on the results showed him to be who I thought he was. He's obviously a very talented runner to be doing 3:15 for a marathon in fancy dress and has won the fastest celebrity title for the past few years (and in fancy dress as elvis and tarzan)...and rasing a huge amount of money along hte way. You can read more about Papa Tony's exploits here
www.sundaymail.co.uk/tv-showbiz-news/entertainment-news/2...
Good on you Tony and thanks for being a great sport and leting me take your picture. If you want the full size version just e-mail me or leave a comment here and I'd be happy to send it to you, either digitally or as a print out. A pleasure to meet you and well done on a great result.
Now onto the boring technical stuff. Processed from RAW in lightroom with the EFF Dragan 4 preset .
Papa Tony... aka Bob Hope... aka Tony Audenshaw
I took the kids, well 2 of them in to see the London Marathon on Sunday with the intention of getitng some cool shots and building on my 100 strangers project. We had a great time !! The girls really enjoyed watching the "funny costumes" run past and I really enjoyed getting some shots of the fancy dress runners. The chap pictured here was running as a smurf. We saw him go past.... he did a great time 3:15 (which is 6 minutes faster than my pb AND he is in fancy dress) Respect.
As we were leaving a little later I saw him on the path behind us. I just had to get his photo as #10/100 for my 100 strangers project so I approached him. He was very willing to oblige and even posed as a victorious Smurf would. As I was speaking to him therre was a little "spark of recognition" and I thought I knew who he was. I knew "Bob Hope" from Emmerdale (a British soap for you international flickrites) was a great runner and had done previous London Marathons in fancy dress. I also recognised his voice from my wife watching Emmerdale on the TV. A quick check of his running number on the results showed him to be who I thought he was. He's obviously a very talented runner to be doing 3:15 for a marathon in fancy dress and has won the fastest celebrity title for the past few years (and in fancy dress as elvis and tarzan)...and rasing a huge amount of money along hte way. You can read more about Papa Tony's exploits here
www.sundaymail.co.uk/tv-showbiz-news/entertainment-news/2...
Good on you Tony and thanks for being a great sport and leting me take your picture. If you want the full size version just e-mail me or leave a comment here and I'd be happy to send it to you, either digitally or as a print out. A pleasure to meet you and well done on a great result.
Now onto the boring technical stuff. Processed from RAW in lightroom with the EFF Dragan 4 preset .