Autumn Landscapes in Somerset: Capturing the beautiful landscapes of Somerset spread out over 3 days with professional landscape photographer Don Bishop

Join us with professional landscape photographer Don Bishop as we take you on a photography learning adventure, capturing some of the best locations that Somerset has to offer!

£750.00 - Includes 2 nights B&B *Pay a £200 deposit now*

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About this event

Join us in the Autumn for a photography landscape trip with Somerset resident photographer Don Bishop. We are pleased to offer this fantastic landscape photography workshop, spread out over 3 days to offer you 2 dawns and 3 sunsets as well as plenty in-between to capture the Autumn colours and scenes. This is the perfect opportunity to really hone your skills in landscape photography by getting expert advice in some fantastic locations both of coastlines and inland. The costs of the course includes private double room en-suite hotel accommodation just outside of Glastonbury with breakfasts each morning.

Somerset has a great variation of landscapes, with rolling hills, heritage landmarks and nearby coastlines this will offer wonderful photography opportunities. Planned locations to visit will include areas like Glastonbury Tor, Burrow Mump, Somerset Levels, Cheddar Gorge, Clevedon Pier, Burnham-on-sea & Ashton Windmill to name a few. Our aim is to give you the best tips and advice to achieve stunning and eye catching landscape photographs by taking you to some of the best locations on offer in this area, and closely following the best weather for each location. Professional landscape photographer Don Bishop will be guiding you through camera settings, composition and also post processing techniques to bring out the best in your images. He will be sharing his experience and knowledge of this wonderful subject with the aim of having you coming home with images that you are truly proud of, with plenty of one on one time throughout the course. Emily Mudie will also be on hand to assist throughout the course.

Don lives in Somerset and is very familiar with the locations, and we have chosen this time of year for the best chance to have Autumn colours on the trees. This time of year also has the added benefit of sunrise being just after 7am so we can have a comfortable departure time each morning and after sunset we usually enjoy and evening meal together as a group.

We plan to car share for this course and both Don & Emily will be drivers who you can travel with, we will also require one more willing volunteer driver to carry 2 or 3 passengers who will be re-imbursed for petrol.

ABOUT YOUR TUTOR

Don Bishop has been a keen enthusiast photographer for over 30 years, initially concentrating for the majority of that time on photographing his other great passion – steam trains. He went full time professional in 2006 and increased the time spent on landscape subjects and now has a comprehensive collection of fine art prints available of coast, country and mountain areas of the UK. His images are frequently published in magazines and he loves sharing his passion of photography and helping others improve their skills by offering expert tuition.

WHATS INCLUDED

The course fee includes 2 nights accommodation in your own private an en suite room with breakfast each morning. Transport for each day of the trip is also included (unless you are the volunteer driver in which case you will be re-imbursed for petrol). There is free on site parking at the Hotel which will be near Glastonbury which will be a good central location for photography.

TIMINGS & DATES

This course will begin at 14:00 on Tuesday 7th November 2023 and finish up at sunset on Thursday 9th November 2023.

PAYMENT

Secure your place by paying a £200 deposit with the remainder due 30 days before the event start date (due by the 8th October 2023). The balance can be paid in instalments or all at once, whichever you prefer.

GROUP SIZE

This course will be limited to 9 photographers and will be run by Don Bishop with Emily Mudie assisting.

ACCOMODATION

We will be staying at The Bear Inn, a local village pub in Street, just outside of Glastonbury. Breakfast is included. For evening meals the pub are offering members of our group a 20% discount off food. The pub address is: Bear Inn, High Street, Street, BA16 0EF. Hotel website: The Bear Inn

Nights included are the 7th and 8th November 2023. Check in is from 2pm and we have reserved a meeting room at the pub from 2pm-3pm for our group to get checked in and meet and greet.

*Please note that locations visited will depend on weather conditions.

*Images by Don Bishop, copyright Don Bishop Photography

*10% TimeLine club discounts or offer codes cannot be used for this event.

Event requirements

Equipment

Spare batteries
Camera
Lense cloths
Laptop/computer
Filters
Lenses
Notepad and pen
Camera protection - rain covers etc
Tripod

Other things you should bring

Snacks
Bottled water
Food and hot drinks included

Knowledge

Intermediate
Knowledge of ISO Shutter Speed and Aperture

Fitness

High
There will be some up hill walking on this event
There will be a fair amount of walking on this event

Other essentials

Sturdy outdoor shoes
Warm clothing
Wet weather gear