Probably the biggest secret so far of 2011 (not), the marriage of Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton, is now less than a day away, and as my invite to be the Royal Wedding official photographer did not arrive, or more likely it was lost in the post, I wondered just who had got the job in my absence?
Well, the official photographer for the day is apparently a French chap called Hugo Barnard, who has actually been working with the Royal Family for a number of years. It seems that Hugo will be using a Hasselblad H4D-50, a 50-million-pixel medium-format DSLR, costing a measly £25,000. Nice work if you can get it..!
Seriously though Monsieur Barnard is a photographer with impressive credentials. Born in 1963, and educated at Harrow, his work has been published in Tatler Magazine since 1993. He has photographed many famous people, and of course, he was the official photographer for the marriage of Camilla Parker Bowles and Prince Charles in 2005.
Unfortunately, at £900 a licence, just to be a stills photographer on the side-lines, I will not be there...
