Yesterday Jan and I walked from Elton near Wirksworth to Robin Hoods Stride, Lathkill Dale from Youlgreave to Middleton, Long Dale and Grattan Dale back to Elton. About 11 miles in total in 5 hours. I didn’t take the camera […]
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There are still 2 places available on the Landscape Photography course that we are running in Northumberland in April. The dates are Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th April. We meet at the Cobbled Yard Hotel in Berwick on Tweed (TD15 […]
We came up to Berwick yesterday in the snow and ice. Took 6 hours instead of 4 because of difficulty getting out of Peak District (snow storms and sheet ice on roads), big detour and traffic jams. We are here […]
We are doing our 15th and last show of 2011 this weekend. This is the Artist & Designer’s Fair in Buxton Pavilion Gardens, 10am to 4.30pm, free entry. We have lots of original prints at half-price as well as posters […]
It’s been a long time coming but finally I have produced another newsletter; the first since July and the 3rd for 2011. Apologies if you’ve been holding your breath waiting for it! It outlines next years shows, the 2012 courses […]
We had a day of 2 halves, as they say. Quite a lively bunch for this course we spent the first day in Eskdale with dull weather in the morning; perfect for water shots. The rain here in the last […]
We are in Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales ready to run course at the weekend. With weeks of dry weather needed to check out rivers and waterfalls, as well as where to park the car at each location. It rained […]
We just had another busy weekend with landscape photography courses on Friday and Saturday and a darkroom printing course on Sunday. The two photo courses were full, with 5 on each 1 day course to keep Jan and I busy. […]
The day started wet but the forecast was better for later in the day so I gave a demo of Photoshop Elements and ran through the workflow that I use from scan to final file saving. It was still raining […]
Day 2 of the landscape photography course in the English Lake District. Today was spent in Eskdale. The forecast was for good weather in the morning and rain after lunch. We started with Stanley Ghyll Force waterfall to avoid the […]
What a damp day! Heavy rain this morning so photography was done from underneath umbrellas around Wast Water. An early extended lunch at the Strands Hotel in Nether Wasdale followed. Then after a quick vote we resumed our day in […]
We are in the Lake District for a landscape photography course, finishing Sunday afternoon. There is no mobile signal but the Stanley House b&b that we stay in provides free wifi which let’s me blog and send emails. It was […]
The last Lake District Landscape Photography course is just over a week away and there is just 1 place left. We are based in Eskdale and also visit Wasdale and the nearby coast. It is suitable for people of any […]
We now have a new gallery on my web site for displaying photographs taken on my courses. Up until recently I had added them to this blog but very quickly they become difficult to find. The new system uses a […]
In case you are confused about the blog entry earlier today saying we are in the Lakes getting ready for a course tomorrow I thought I should make a correction. That was written on Saturday night but the wifi in […]
I have received quite a few photographs taken on courses that we have run and was dropping them onto a blog here in the past, but they tend to get lost before too long. I had a chat with my […]
We are in Stanley House in Boot ready to run a 1 day course tomorrow for the 3 winners of the course I ran in B+W Photography magazine in March. There has been heavy rain here in the last few […]
If you are thinking of coming on a landscape photography courses there are still places available on the 1 day course in the Peak District on Friday 9th July.Looks like there will be less than 5 people so you will […]
The prize draw has been done for the competition that I ran in B+W Photography magazine with Harman / Ilford providing product prizes too. All winners won a place on a special landscape photography course with me in Eskdale in […]
We set up today for an art and craft fair near Henley on Thames with Craft in Focus, on the Henley to Marlow road. If you visit we are in marquee A stand 24, quite near the main entrance. There […]
I have just sent 15 new Lake District images to Martin, my web man, to add to my web site. Will keep fingers crossed that they are loaded on the Recent Images Gallery by the weekend so that I can […]
There are still places on my Lake District photography course starting on Sunday 2nd May and finishing Wednesday 5th May. That gives you 3 full days of photography with Jan and I as tutors in some spectacular scenery. The Lakes […]
Yesterday was the last day of the 3 day course for Clive and Alex and we were looking forward to the best weather of the 3 days with BBC and Met Office forecasts of sunny spells all day. In fact we […]
Day 2 for Clive and Alex in the Peak District. We had a pleasant surprise today with good weather when we were expecting heavy rain! Lots of sunny spells and clouds and blue sky.We started from Surprise View above Hathersage with […]
It is a wet day in the Peak District today. The rain started about 10am and has hardly stopped. I am running a private course for 3 days with Clive Kornitzer and his son Alex, from London, this was the […]
It may be 1st April but this isn’t an April Fool’s joke – the Peak District is white again after snow all day yesterday and again this morning. It’s a cold wind here too. The snow line is about 350 […]
A distinct lack of mobile phone signal meant no blogging for 5 days! We returned home last night after running a 3 day landscape photography course in the Lake District. We were based in the spacious and very comfortable Stanley […]
The big photo and imaging show Focus on Imaging, at the NEC Birmingham, is over for another year. We made it home by 8.30pm last night having gone down on Saturday to set up. This year we were back with […]
Here are a couple of images from a course that I ran in October. Yes, I know it’s a bit late but it was a bit busy and I wasn’t as organised as I needed to be at times! Hope […]
Just before Christmas I ran a 3 day private workshop for Nick de Marco and Ripon from London. It was good timing in one sense that we had cold winter conditions for our 2 photo days, with the second of […]
I have just run a 3 day private course with 2 days landscape photography and 1 day darkroom. We had good light and frosty fields on Friday then today we had brief sunny spells in between snow blizzards. The trees […]
All Christmas orders were shipped today, except for 60 x 50 cm prints which will go via DHL on Monday. If you ordered something keep an eye open for it. All prints have been shipped using Royal Mail Special Delivery […]
Thursday was a darkroom printing day and all Christmas orders are now printed and all but the last two FB prints are mounted and / or packed waiting to be shipped. I am running a course Friday to Sunday but […]
We are still in Sweden but have just received confirmation from the accommodation in the Lake District that all is well with our bookings. The new courses will run in March, early May and September and be based in Eskdale. […]
Here are a few images from the black and landscape photography course that I ran on 14th August 2009. They are all by Paul Francis. We visited several locations to give variety and practice at taking different types of photograph. […]
I have written some new pages for my web site in the Technical Notes section. The first is on darkroom technique. If you have been on one of my darkroom printing workshops this will provide a few reminders to help […]
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