Here are a few pictures taken by me, Rachel and students Anne and Dorothy during their two days at Portmeirion.
We had the benefit of personal tours by Meurig Jones, Estate Manager and Head Gardener Arwel Hughes. A fantastic couple of days was had by all!
We had a great day with students on a Sudeley Castle photography course today – here are a few pictures from the day. Great location, great people – what a fab job we have!! Click on a pic to have a proper look.
Taken by Peter from Bewdley, with his new Nikon D60. Great depth of field and super low viewpoint.
We had the opportunity to take a few shots while we were teaching at Shugborough. We concentrated on changing depth of field and changing shutter speeds, as you can see.
Thanks to Tony in the walled garden!
We can’t guarantee that you’ll take pictures like this if you come to Shugborough, you’ll probably do better. 
Our residential photography courses this Summer and Autumn are proving to be really popular!
It’s a great way to focus your mind (as well as your camera!) on photography. Since we’ve got strong links with our venues we can advise with accommodation that will fit your style and budget. Please email us for details.
Our Summer residential photography courses this Summer are at Portmeirion (fab location) on 27th/28th July, that is ‘DSLR Made Simple’, followed by ‘Seeing The World Differently made Simple’ and at Shugborough 2nd/3rd August, where we will be doing ‘DSLR photography made Simple’, followed by ‘People Photography Made Simple’.
During the Autumn, we will be running a 2 day photography residential course at Stourhead, 13th/14th October. The Autumn colours will be mind-blowing!! The courses we will be running there are ‘Photography Made Extra Simple’, followed by ‘DSLR Made Simple’
These two day residential photography courses are the perfect way to get to know your own camera intimately, and leave feeling confident that you can always get the shots that YOU want!! No more guessing/luck involved! We always provide on-going support, if you get home and find that you have forgotten a few things…don’t worry, we are always here to help you achieve your full-potential!Of course, you can just come on one of these day courses…they stand alone, too!
We would love to see you, and strongly advise booking early, as we like to keep our photography courses small, intimate and friendly.
By popular demand we’ve added a two day photography course at Portmeirion on Monday July 27th and Tuesday July 28th. We’ve done this to accommodate some overseas visitors, and we’ve timetabled a DSLR course on the Monday, and a Creative Photography course on the Tuesday. Why not join us for either or both days? Accommodation can be arranged In the village, which as you may know is an amazing place to visit and to stay. The course will include a private tour by Portmeirion’s own Meurig Jones, who knows every photogenic nook and cranny of the village. Be seeing you!
Phil and Rachel teach most of our photography courses, and an exhibition of their work opened last night before touring England, and we feel the need to tell everyone about it! We spent a week (pro bono) at Megan Baker House, where they use conductive education to help people who have been brain injured by cerebral palsy, head injury or Parkinson’s Disease. Megan Baker House provided this for free, and people travel there from all over the country to re-learn how to use their limbs. To find out more about their work have a look at www.meganbakerhouse.org.uk
It’s been an inspiration to see them at work, and we hope our pictures capture some of this. The exhibition will be touring to Malvern, Worcester, Hereford and Liverpool, among other UK cities.
We photographed the clients using very wide apertures to accentuate their individuality and to blur a cluttered background. It’s a working space, not a studio!
The idea of this shoot was to take pictures with a point of view, to show Worcester in it’s best and worst light. We were amazed by the quality and diversity of the pictures, as we often are! These pictures were taken by the beginners photography course in Worcester – with a blue sky and (mostly) clean streets, this time the challenge was to find unflattering bits of Worcester. These pictures are by Jenny, David, Mike and Lucy. Just to make it harder, the pictures had to be specifically Worcester (as if photographing for Worcestershire Life or Marxism Today), not just pretty or ugly subjects. This is a very mixed class by age, sex, experience and camera, but they all found good targets for their lenses and caught them well.
