There’s been a huge amount of snow in the Austrian Alps over the last few days. This has fallen on ice and pastures with no freeze thaw to stabilise it, so an enormous amount of work for the ski areas […]
There’s been a huge amount of snow in the Austrian Alps over the last few days. This has fallen on ice and pastures with no freeze thaw to stabilise it, so an enormous amount of work for the ski areas […]
Today I ran a personal Peak District photo course for Nick and Rex who work together in Windsor. Not the best day weatherwise! Heavy rain delayed our start. Then we had a break in the weather, headed out and had […]
I have two exhibitions of my work this year. The first of these is of some of my winter hill and mountain photographs at the Derby Cathedral Centre, called Winter Peaks. It’s a mix of Mountains and Peak District. It’s […]
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 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 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 returned from a weekend in the Yorkshire Dales last night. I was hoping for some good views across the tops but we mostly had rain and grey days. I took quite a few waterfall shots yesterday around the Aysgarth […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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. […]
The article I wrote on Using Digital Cameras for black and white landscape photography can be read as a new web page. The link to go straight there is: https://www.davebutcher.co.uk/digitalTo find it at a later date click on Technical Notes […]
I have just written a fourth article for my web site and sent it off to the company who run my web site. They are usually pretty quick at loading new files and images so shouldn’t be long before it […]
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