About Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars is a dedicated Youth Sports and Event Photography company based in Sligo, Ireland. A Shooting Star to us is any young person that participates in Sport, is involved in their community or represents their School – and we want to photograph every one of those Shooting Stars in the Sligo area!

What we do

What Shooting Stars does is pretty simple really. We go to as many youth and school games and events featuring Sligo teams/groups/players as possible and photograph them. From those photographs we offer print sales (in a range of sizes and finishes), poster design and other photography based merchandise. If you’d like to make sure that we cover your team, club or School then we recommend that you ‘Invite us to your game!’. We give preference to games that we are invited to and it’s a completely free service – with no obligation to buy anything from us.

Our Showroom

We think our website is pretty mint but in fairness you can’t really appreciate the photographs until you see them in print – this is where our showroom comes in. It’s on 12 Market Street, Sligo and it’s stuffed full of some of our favourite prints and posters. We have a number of touch screen viewing terminals as well where you can browse and search our extensive archive (which is much larger than what you’ll find on this site – containing over 13,000 images as of January 2010). We can print up your orders there and then – and frame them if required. Our designers are on hand to help you put together that extra special personalised poster as well (which are really cool).

Please note that on this website we only sell a small subset of the products that we offer.

About the Promoter

Shooting Stars Photography Limited (company number 471839), trading as Shooting Stars, a family run business, was founded in June 2009 by photographer Jonathan Hill, LIPPA, LIPF. Jonathan, a multi-award winning photographer, passionate sports fan, and serial entrepreneur (founder of Infacta.com, co-founder of PollDaddy.com), has been shooting sports for the past five years in Sligo on a freelance basis with a number of local news outlets. After spending some time in Australia and examining the Youth photography markets there and in places like North America he decided that the time was right to bring a similar service to his home town. Jonathan is a father to three children and firmly believes that children involved in or with Sports or their Communities are all the better for it. His vision for Shooting Stars is to promote those which participate in Sports; the clubs, the schools, the players, the fans, the coaches, the lot basically!. Shooting Stars is not driven by profit – just a desire to celebrate sport and those that participate in it through photography.

Jonathan is a member of the Irish Professional Photographers Association (IPPA), the Association of Sports Journalists in Ireland (ASJI, and the AIPS), and the Society of International Sports and Leisure Photographers (SISLP). Jonathan holds Licentiate distinctions from the Irish Professional Photographers Association (LIPPA) and the Irish Photographic Federation (LIPF).

Shooting Stars is deeply concerned about Child Welfare Issues and adheres to all the guidelines on Photography in relation to Children as set out in the Code of Ethics document by the Irish Sports Council. If you have any questions in relation to our policies please don’t hesitate to stop by our showroom or to contact us.