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# Mark Beaumont - Photographer

Equine, Editorial & Commercial Photography

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- [Polo photography - A basic "How to" for beginners](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/polo-photography-a-few-tips/) - Polo photography; tips for photographers One question I often get asked about is polo photography, and 'how to get better images'. In my role as the official photographer for Cowdray Park Polo Club, I probably should know the answer to that one, but like any art form, photography is subjective. My idea of better images
- [Ploughing Match - West Sussex - Petworth & District Agricultural Association](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/petworth-district-agricultural-association-ploughing-match-25th-september-2025/) - So, with the absence of any polo for the next 7 months, I thought it might be a good idea to look for some other inspiration. I'd seen a roadside advert for a ploughing match, but true to form, way too smaller writing on the poster to see where it actually was. After a little
- [Land Rovers of London at Goodwood](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/land-rovers-of-london-meet-at-goodwood-motor-circuit-sunday-9th-november-2025/) - It's fair to say I have a love hate relationship with Land Rovers; 12 consecutive years of ownership, and four Land Rovers, (five if you include a slightly misguided purchase of a white commercial Disco). I'm not much of a mechanic, but our first Landy, an ex RAF 109 soft top, petrol engine, certainly gave
- [Sussex County Ploughing Association](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/the-sussex-county-ploughing-association-sussex-ploughing-championships/) - Back at another ploughing match, this time little further afield in Shoreham in West Sussex. A beautiful location on the downs with views across to the sea and the distant off shore wind farm in one direction, and views to towards Lancing College in the other. It was great to see a pair of horses
- [Advertising shoot, Spillers - Happy Hoof](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/spillers-happy-hoof/) - Having worked with Brand Potential in the past on several of their advertising campaigns for other equine brands, it was great to hear from them when they wanted to discuss a new project. Only for this shoot we were to have a slightly smaller subject; meet the rather adorable "Moses". Moses is a rescue Shetland
- [Hasselblad X1D-50c](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/hasselblad-x1d-50c/) - OOPS!! Believe it or not, I started to write this blog post about the Hasselblad X1D-50c early last Summer 2017! I think it’s fair to say, I’m probably the worlds most reluctant photographic blogger, but I‘m a changed man (possibly). This year I intend to keep this thing entirely up to date, (though we may
- [A Horse Photographer  Q & A........](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/horse-photographer/) - I'm regularly contacted by students and other photographers asking various questions about being a Horse Photographer. So I thought it might be a good idea to put up a post answering some of the more usual questions I get asked, and of course, I'm happy to answer anything else if it helps. How did you find your niche in
- [Equine Studio Portraits with Polo Ponies](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/equine-studio-portraits-polo-ponies/) - Between May and July each year, I slightly re-adjust my Equine Photographer hat, and go into my Equestrian Sports Photographer mode. I work as a freelance Polo Photographer, for various tournaments and teams during the season. You can see some more images HERE. My duties are to attend all their matches during the two high goal
- [So what goes on at an equine photo shoot?](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/so-goes-equine-photo-shoot/) - I'd been feeling the need to try something a little different lately, so I thought it was time to break out the "Equine Portrait Studio", sound impressive? It's not really, it's just a tie dyed brownish back drop and some lights, but then I suppose that's all studios are. Anyway I also decided to try
- [The Equine studio in action.](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/equine-studio-action/) - Ok, so it's been a while since I've updated my blog, time just seems to escape me plus I'm not sure that anyone is really that interested! Anyway, I'm afraid this post is aimed more at fellow photographers, students and enthusiasts, and might be a tad techy, but hopefully it may still be of interest.
- [Gaucho International Polo - o2 Arena London 2011](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/gaucho-international-polo-o2-arena-london/) - Yesterday I was in London for the first Gaucho International Polo at the o2 Arena. The press call was for 3pm, I found myself there a bit earlier, but fortunately the o2 has plenty of coffee shops. There were probably about 15 other photographers there to cover the event for various magazines and papers.
- [Mint Polo in the Park Press Launch](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/mint-polo-in-the-park-press-launch/) - Early morning start at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, London, for the launch of the Mint Polo in the park, being held at The Hurlingham Club in June. This will be the fith year its been held there and has been voted the best London Sport Attraction of the year for the past two years. Jodie
- [Gaucho Sundown Polo - Ham Polo Club](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/gaucho-sundown-polo-ham-polo-club/) - The rain held off, despite looking very ominous in the sky, for my return to Ham Polo Club for the Gaucho Sundown polo, (I'm sure it was called Sunset polo last year, but nevermind) in fact we were almost bathed in sunshine at times! Ham Polo Club has many memories for me as my grandparents
- [Commercial equine](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/commercial-work/) - It’s been very exciting to have worked recently with commercial clients both here and abroad. As you may have read elsewhere in this blog about my working with Spillers new equine feed company, T.E.N. Supplements. This has continued in 2013 with two more photo shoots to accompany new product launches from within the line up.
- [Our new arrival](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/our-new-arrival/) - It's been just over a year since we had to say goodbye to Willow, our much loved Lab x Collie. Willow came from Last Chance rescue home in kent, where he'd been collected from a council dog pound in Wales, at the age of 18 months, where he only had a few days left, before
- [HPA Gaucho International Polo 2012](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/hpa-gaucho-international-polo-2012/) - I was at the 02 Arena last night for the second International Arena Polo match. England IG Index (Capt. Jamie Morrison) v Merchant Hub Argentina (Capt. Nacho Figueras), plus an earlier Ireland v Scotland game. Unfortunately the initial positions allocated to photographers were not as good as I'd hoped, however after a few discussions, I
- [South Coast windsurfing](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/south-coast-windsurfing/) - In view of the gale force winds, it seemed an ideal opportunity to go down to the sea and shoot some south coast windsurfing, which was something I'd been meaning to do for the past year or so. As an ex-windsurfer myself, I knew despite it being a weekday, there was a fair chance that
- [The Equine portrait Backdrop, Part II](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/the-backdrop-part-ii/) - I’ve written previously about my plans for the new improved much wider Equine Portrait backdrop that I’d adapted so I could comfortably shoot a whole horse, well it didn’t quite work out as planned! Mostly due to the fact that the main support pole wasn’t strong enough to cope with the increased 6m length, and even
- [Equine Portrait](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/equine-portrait/) - A slightly different approach to some Equine portraits this week, my aim was to try and create a rather more “gritty” image, and to do this without doing tons of Photoshop work. The way to do this was to control and manipulate the light in order to get the effect, and this meant getting a
- [Asahi British Beach Polo Championships](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/asahi-british-beach-polo-championships/) - Saying, "it was slightly different weather from last year, for the Beach Polo", could be just a little bit of an understatement. I left home with just slightly greyish skies, and the radio telling me how bad the weather was in the direction I was heading. Flooding, torrential downpours, high winds, it was all happening,
- [The HPA Gaucho International Polo](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/the-hpa-gaucho-international-polo/) - Back to the O2 Arena for the exciting event that is, The HPA (Hurlingham Polo Association) Gaucho International Polo. Three matches culminating in a 20 goal match between old rivals England and Argentina. The Argentinian team of Andrea Vianini (standing in for Nacho Figueras who broke his hip at Cowdray last Sunday) Oscar Mancini and
- [Mars Petcare advertising shoot](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/mars-petcare-advertising-shoot/) - TEN Supplements Wind the clock forward a fair few years and one morning I got a call from the guys at Brand Potential in Windsor asking if I’d like to get involved with a new equine nutritional supplement range from Spillers Foods, a division of Mars Petcare. Despite my previous experiences in the commercial field,
- [Moorcroft Racehorse Welfare Centre](https://markbeaumont.co.uk/moorcroft-racehorse-welfare-centre/) - Since late last year, I've had the pleasure of working with the charity Moorcroft Racehorse Welfare Centre, based just down the road from me in West Sussex. I can clearly remember my first phone call with Mary, the Manager, and her surprised voice that someone had actually called her back from her emails she’d sent

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