Photography Biog

Shaun Geraghty - Self Portrait

SHAUN GERAGHTY
Photographer


Shaun is an enthusiast photographer formerly based on the Staffordshire/Shropshire border in Central England, now living on the beautiful Devon coast in the South West. His main areas of photography include the landscapes and colours of the British countryside and coastlines

In addition to this Shaun’s favourite photographic locations include the endless photographic opportunities of Greece and her islands. Shaun has visited Greece over 35 times and has a massive portfolio of shots of the beautiful scenery, coastlines, culture and local life.

Equipment
Shaun uses a Nikon D300 semi-professional standard DSLR and a Nikon D50 DSLR, along with Nikkor 18-200VR and 18-70mm lenses for general work. A Sigma 70-300mm APO DG Macro for both long distance and close up macro shots, and a Sigma 10-20mm for wide angle landscape photography. He also uses a selection of Cokin P series filters, Hoya circular polarisers, a Manfrotto 190CL tripod and a Lowe-Pro 300AW camera bag.

Processing is done with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. Shaun shoots mainly in RAW.


Coffee Break
Achievements
Winner 2006 Greece Magazine Photography Competition
Joint 4th Place 2007 Daily Telegraph/Craghoppers Photography Competition
Winner - Devon County Council "Proud of Devon" photography competition - August 2007
Runner Up - "My East Devon Summer" photography competition run by Archant Publications - November 07.
Winner - Greece Magazine photography competition July 2008 (2 page spread in the magazine)



Published Photos
Shaun has had photographs featured in Greece Magazine, Country Walking, The Daily Telegraph, East Devon Views Magazine, the Gnosall Village Guide and numerous local newspapers in Staffordshire. He completed his first paid photographic assignment recently with a photo shoot for a website and brochure for a 4 star hotel in Devon. His work has also featured on the internal DWP Intranet site.
Shaun also had his work used for a calendar to promote the area of Romanos, in South Western Greece, including the cover shot. In the Summer of 2011 one of Shaun's images was used in the promotional leaflets produced by Gnosall Parish Council to publicise the village GFest festival.



Shaun is available for photographic work in and around the South Devon area, and also has a massive stock library of images which are available either in print, or in digital form by email or CD, for use in articles, magazines, websites etc. The images used on this website are low resolution only and are not suitable for reproduction, but full size versions are available on request. Take a look at the galleries for examples of the areas, and type of photographs that Shaun can provide.



Shaun lives in Teignmouth, Devon He is also an experienced radio presenter, having worked in local broadcasting for 36 years, see separate page for details.

You can contact Shaun through the 'Contact Me' section on this website.