After a long while in our minds the 'Sound of The Downs' project has finally taken its first tentative steps into reality. On a particularly sunny and windy day on the South Downs myself and co-collaborator Tamsin Williams set up a basic strobe setup to photograph the dog walkers and their dogs on the South Downs. The shoot was primarily a test to see what we could do with the lighting and how we would like the photographs to look. It was an informative experience that we both learnt from and was also very promising as it delivered that sometimes illusive thrill of more…