Wales Archives - Tim Gander, Photographer, Bristol

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 by Tim Gander

Happy New Year!

How was your Christmas and New Year? Are you all re-invigorated, set and ready to take 2026 by the chestnuts and give it a good twist?

Well if not, don’t worry; there is no law which says you have to be a new you just because it’s a new year. Don’t put that pressure on yourself. Maybe spend a little time putting together your short term, medium term and long term to-do list, then stick it in a drawer and wing it like you always do! It works for me!

Being a little more serious for a moment, I know I have some challenges to face and some tricky decisions to wrestle with this year, and I will be working through them in my usual, slightly random way. However, I did at least end 2025 and start 2026 with some relaxing family time followed by a fun adventure in wildest West Wales.

And as always, my camera was with me.

So to kick off the year nice and gently, here’s a handful of random images from the Wales trip.

Aberaeron, West Wales.

A female whose face is only dimly visible is smiling at camera while her head torch shines two red beams which also illuminate the faux fur lining of the hood she is wearing. The surrounding picture is in blackness.

Helen looking like a Dr Who monster.

Looking down a supermarket aisle with shelves filled with sugary breakfast cereals on the left, green footprint stickers leading away from the viewer on the speckled beige tiled floor and freezer cabinets to the right.

Signage...

Sea foam

A full moon is visible between power lines against a dusk sky.

Full moon from M25

Close-up view of a display panel in the Science Museum showing a scientist at work next to text of his quote.

I'm in the Science Museum!

It was a fun start to the year and it gave me a little time to reflect and consider what goals I might actually have. Here’s the thing though; I didn’t have any revelatory moments during the couple of weeks I was away, but I know thoughts were churning in the back of my mind.

Now that I’m back, some of those thoughts have turned into outline plans which have floated to the surface like messages in a Magic 8 Ball. I’m determined to get some of them out of my brain and into reality.

So here goes 2026! I hope your plans emerge too and that you manage to make them tangible.

Happy New Year!

July 25, 2011March 10, 2014 by Tim Gander

Case Study: The Case Study

While most of my work now falls into the corporate photography category, shooting pictures for websites, brochures, press releases and the like, I do still have some editorial clients.

Among them is the Institute of Directors who publish a rather swish magazine called Director. It’s a monthly title aimed, unsurprisingly, at directors and I’m always happy to hear from them because although I know I need to meet certain criteria within the brief, I also know they appreciate my own creative input which always makes a shoot more fun.

On this occasion I was sent to Penarth Amateur Boxing Club to meet Allan Meek of SCS Group in Cardiff and his boxing trainer Neil Munn, who runs the gym. I was especially excited by this commission because I knew it would give me the chance to work in a very different environment – at least something other than an office!

The article, which has now appeared in the July/August issue of the magazine, features case studies of company directors who use sport or fitness training to help them in their professional lives.

Of the three directors featured Allan got the biggest show in the magazine. I’d like to think that was something to do with the photos I took, but perhaps it would be more modest to say it was Allan’s photogenic looks and the lovely light in the gym that made the spread work.

Featured below are a few of the frames from the shoot, including some that didn’t make the pages of Director. I hope you enjoy them!