As top equestrian photographers we attend most of the major national and international equestrian events. We primarily focusing on three day eventing, with CCI**, CCI*** and CCI**** events throughout Europe. Travelling the length and breadth of the United Kingdom, and also covering many other international locations, which proves to be an extremely busy session from March through to October.

Tim and Bev have been the official photographers for Team Fredericks, (Clayton and Lucinda) for a number of years now.. Clayton  winning the FEI World Cup in Deauville, and the Rolex Kentucky 2007 in the USA. Lucinda has her own impressive record with Wins at the Burghley International horse trial 2006 and the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials 2007 champion and not to mention the Barbury Castle 2008 event.

We are also the official photographers for Badminton Horse Trials Ltd and we now represent the ERA (Event Riders Association).

With regular inclusions to many of the top equestrian publications such as Horse and Hound (UK's number one horse  and eventing publication, Horse Deal, EQ Life and many other international publications, our work is well publicised.

Tim and Bev always attend events together, so there are always two photographers covering every event from two different angles, whether it be a small novice event or international three day event. We like to pride ourselves on customer service and to differentiate ourselves from others, we focus on quality, customer satisfaction and a distinctive creative style, admired by many.

Previously we shot all our commercial photography on Kodak film with medium format cameras. 2¼" x 2¼" square images, and all our sport and event and social photography on Nikon F3, FM2 and FE2  35mm Kodak film.  Now everything is digital with 12.4 million pixel cameras, able to take pictures at 9 frames per second using the very latest Nikon professional range of equipment and with the full backing of the Nikon professional service scheme,  reassuring our customers that the equipment is at its optimum for every event and commission. How things have changed!

As our coverage grows, so does our library, with well over 130,000 photographs just of events, riders and horses from every conceivable angle, it is a job on its own filing and managing that many images.

Because there are two of use we are able to cover so much more than one single photographer and also able to focus our efforts to single areas of the course or arena, which over the years has paid dividends, when previously we had wish we had been at another fence or angle within a show jumping arena.

We have just launched our new and improved view and purchase online photographic library, so when you need the latest images of the latest event, look no further.

Aside from viewing our portfolio galleries, please feel free to browse the whole site, including our recent events to get a better idea of the standard of work we offer.

To learn more about the services offered by Optimal Photography, please call or email Bev or Emma with any questions you may have. Thanks for your interest in Optimal Photography and we look forward to speaking with you.