Last weekend I was invited by Joanne Poole to photograph her 18th Birthday Party. It was a whole lot of fun and thoroughly enjoyed photographing the event. I ended up with around 200 photographs that documented the event. I took wide angle photos for “context”, telephoto shots of people enjoying themselves and “detail” shots of the tables etc…
The stars and Happy Birthday wishes spread out across the surface of the tables.
Joanne Poole. Happy Birthday! 
Joanne with her friend...
The birthday cake...
Joanne welcoming her friends to the party.
The guys enjoying the beer...
One of Joanne's friends.
I took many shots like this of people enjoying themselves.
Joanne with her boyfriend Kevin.
Everybody cheering for Joanne before she got her cake...
The girls...
Another one of the girls...
Joanne is a very successful Arm Wrestler in the UK and has won numerous competitions! Joanne is 13 x British Champion winner (Junior & Senior Together), 2x International Champion, 2x European Silver Medalist and World Bronze Medalist. Truly an amazing achievement by the age of 18. You can follow Joanne here (link).
I’ve photographed Joanne a few times before and below are a small collection of those images.
I took this back in early 2009. Key flash through an umbrella and the 2nd flash with gobo lighting the wall.
High key shot of Joanne .
Its easy to see why Joanne has won so many competitions!
Joanne arm wrestling with her father, Richard Poole.
This was taken in the summer of 2008. That is definitely a competition face!
