OWNER Mk1 Jaguar Hawthorn / Andrew Badham
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first met Andrew who owns this car on Instagram. I meet a lot of people on Instagram. Some are across the other side of the world, and some like Andrew are just 45 minutes drive away from where I live. And so it was a on an unusually warm and calm early autumn day that I invited Andrew to join me with his Mk1 Jaguar Hawthorn, for some lunch and a few photos of his car at Whatley Manor - the new home-from-home of b500. After a few exchanges on ‘the gram’, Andrew agreed what a nice idea it would
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be and that he didn’t need much of an excuse to drive across country from his home in the North Cotswolds, to Whatley in the South. I arrived earlier than the time I had suggested to Andrew, just so I could scope Whatley for parking spaces to photograph and check the light etc which was that beautiful September light we sometimes get in early autumn and the trees at Whatley were just starting to turn from green to orange. Being a typical photographer I was watching the light as it changed minute by minute and decided to catch Andrew
as he pulled in through the open gates at the top of the drive and started the half mile drive towards the main house. I stopped him like a police officer half way up the drive and introduced myself. I then proceeded to ask if he minded if we start photographing and then had lunch, as the light, the light, the light! (Like the often mad man I can be about ‘the light’). I don’t think its just me, but maybe it is? And so after his 45 minute drive, a quick elbow bump ‘hello’ and I was asking Andrew to drive the car here, move it there, face it this way, turn it that way. (Not much has changed since my fashion
