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About Tom I’ve been a runner for almost as long as I can remember – certainly since primary school. I was a half-decent Senior sprinter, during the 1970’s and early 1980’s, winning Club and County titles, and taking part in Southern League. A back injury put paid to that, but allowed me the time to develop a deep love of many of the mountainous areas of Europe, especially the Dolomites of Northern Italy. I was lucky to have the opportunity to work there regularly for many years, leading groups for a well-known holiday company. My promise to run a full marathon when I was 40 didn’t happen. Mind you, I put in some good half marathon times during the “fun running” boom of the late 1980’s! It wasn’t until May 2001 that I finally plucked up the courage to go back on to the track, and see if I could still run fast. By 2004 I’d realised that I was competitive in my Masters age group at a national level. March 2006 found me, wide eyed and innocent, at the World Masters Indoor Championships. I was delighted to be part of the silver medal-winning GB 4x200 metres relay squad. I was a finalist in the European Masters M50 100 metres in Poland later in the year. I won gold with the relay team in the European Masters Indoors in Helsinki in March 2007, outdoors at the World Masters in Riccione in September 2007, and then also at the World Masters Indoors in France in March 2008. I look forward to many more years competing as a Master. Where cameras came into it all is a bit less clear. Somewhere along the line, I started to get the occasional mountain photograph published, and applied myself diligently to trying to capture on film what the mountains meant to me. The digital camera revolution changed many things. I found that bringing “the athletes eye” to track and field photography worked quite well, and for the last few years, I have become ever more keen to use my photographs to try to see Masters athletics get the recognition it deserves. I am an accredited photographer for the British Masters Athletics Federation and for the European Veterans Athletics Association. |
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By way of incriminating evidence, I offer this picture of me (black vest, big hair), racing in Southern League at Croydon Arena in July 1976. How simple it all looked then! Thanks to my long-time friend Steve Cluney for the picture |
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Picture by Jeremy Hemming |
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Photography by Tom Phillips |
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Moving Mountains |
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About this web site, and a bit about me
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E-mail: tomp2@tiscali.co.uk |
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This web site has no real pretensions to be anything other than an opportunity for people who know me and know my work to see my photographs, and to know how to obtain copies
The galleries on this site contain low resolution copies of the photographs. I supply full resolution versions or printed copies to order. I’m happy to supply to anyone, so please don’t rip off the low res pictures or use them without permission! |
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