{"id":36252,"date":"2024-05-23T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b6df2f35-f5eb-42f7-b125-42d94cfcbf66"},"modified":"2024-05-23T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T14:34:56","slug":"a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/rss_feed\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin\/","title":{"rendered":"A photographer at Chelsea Flower Show: &#8216;I work at high speed, fuelled by pure adrenalin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\">Rachel Warne, garden photographer, gives Jodie Jones a snapshot of her action-packed press day at the Chelsea Flower Show <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 23 May 2024 at 13:32 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"p1\">The best bit about doing what I do is having the opportunity to arrive really early on the morning of the Monday press day. I usually get there at about 5am. There might be a few builders running around and one or two designers will start arriving to check on their gardens but, basically, I have the whole of Chelsea to myself.<\/p><p><strong>You may also like<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/try.gardensillustrated.com\/chelsea-newsletter\/\">Sign up to our Chelsea Flower Show newsletter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/chelsea\/design-garden-how-to-chelsea\">Everything you need to know about designing a Chelsea garden<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/chelsea\/chelsea-flower-show-tickets-information\">Tickets, dates and information for Chelsea Flower Show<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"p1\">It is such a gift. I know that in a few hours there will be crowds everywhere, but for those precious moments I can just be at one with the gardens and really appreciate all the hard work and effort that goes into making the <a href=\"\/chelsea-flower-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chelsea Flower Show<\/a> so remarkable.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-group highlight-box is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-head-to-our-chelsea-flower-show-hub-page-for-all-the-latest-coverage-of-the-show\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardensillustrated.com\/chelsea-flower-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Head to our Chelsea Flower Show hub page for all the latest coverage of the Show <\/em><\/a><\/h3><p> <\/p><\/div><\/div><p class=\"p1\">Although even at that time in the morning, high vis jackets are the bane of my life. Someone wearing one in the far distance can ruin a shot for me, so I have learned to just practice patience and wait until they have gone. On the plus side, unlike the gardens that I photograph through the rest of the year, there is never a sense that things might have looked better the week before, or the week afterwards. At Chelsea everything is perfect.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Of course, that puts a lot of pressure on the designers and their teams. You can see the stress on people\u2019s faces in the final build up. Maybe there are problems with a water feature, or a branch has snapped off a specimen tree. But by about 10am everything has calmed down.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">That\u2019s my cue to head for the press tent and download all the digital images I have taken. A few years ago I invested in a pop-up mini studio in a case. It\u2019s got visors to keep the light out, a proper workstation with a graphics tablet and everything else I might need. Then it\u2019s a race against the clock. There are people waiting for my pictures so I work at high speed, fuelled by pure adrenalin.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">I send my clients a set of low-resolution images in the morning then, once they choose the pictures they want, I have just a few hours to complete all the laborious editing and retouching that are needed to make a really top quality image.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Since I normally work alone, I also love the social side of the show. Given how early my day starts, by the time I\u2019ve filed all my pictures I am usually pretty tired, but I do get second wind once I know my clients are happy. It\u2019s always nice when a designer invites me onto their garden for a chat and a closer look. And sometimes a group of us designers, photographers and journalists will go out for drinks in the evening to celebrate.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The whole experience is wonderfully mad, and I love it.<\/p><div class=\"newsletter-signup\"\/><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rhs-chelsea-flower-show-takes-place-21-25-may-2024\"><a href=\"\/chelsea-flower-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RHS Chelsea Flower Show<\/a> takes place 21-25 May 2024<\/h3> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Warne, garden photographer, gives Jodie Jones a snapshot of her action-packed press day at the Chelsea Flower Show <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":36253,"template":"","categories":[1,68],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"3"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/a-photographer-at-chelsea-flower-show-i-work-at-high-speed-fuelled-by-pure-adrenalin-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Rachel Warne, garden photographer, gives Jodie Jones a snapshot of her action-packed press day at the Chelsea Flower Show","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/36252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/gardensillustrated\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}