Mine Shoot - 600m underground!

These images are from a shoot just before Christmas. Had to overcome a fairly serious bout of claustrophobia to get these. It was an amazing experience but I one I hoped I wouldn't have to repeat too soon. Unfortunately I have another one at a different mine tomorrow!

Ethiopia!

Here are just a few pictures from an amazing 11 days spent in Ethiopia shooting the Timkat Festival. Myself and a fellow tog shot day and night pretty much non-stop for the entire time there. Arrived back in Zambia exhausted and ill but tightly gripping a backup drive with thousands of images on it. Need to get on to writing accompanying articles and trying to flog them now!

Will post more pics in a gallery soon as far too many to post here.

One of my favourite images from the Trip. This is Gonder town taken from the Goha Hill. It took 3 cold pre-dawn attempts to capture this one.

A priest inside one of the incredible rock hewn churches in Lalibela. The entire church is carved out of one piece of rock!

As we travelled along a wretched road outside Lalibela we spotted this man herding his cattle along the hills.

St. Georges church in Lalibela at dawn.

The Timkat Festival in full swing.

From a walk through Gonder at dawn.

garethbentley weddings launched!

Wow, it been ages since my last post. Time has gone by in a flash, with a shoot in Ethiopia among everything else and trying to get my wedding website up and running. It has finally been launched in the last couple of days and you can have a look at it by going to www.garethbentleyweddings.com Looking forward to shooting a small wedding in the beautiful surroundings of Kanyemba Lodge in the Lower Zambezi, at the end of the month.

Will post some pics later today from some interesting recent shoots.
cheers
gareth