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Here are the dates of the next digital photography courses we have planned in the Derbyshire Peak District and around Sheffield and South Yorkshire in the next few months. They are all one day courses, led by an experienced professional photographer with extensive local knowledge. You can read what some of our hundreds of clients have said about our courses here on Google.

You can request a booking form here for any of our training courses listed below. Just click on the links for more information about individual courses. 

This Christmas, we are once again offering a special £99.00 gift voucher. Valid for the whole of 2023, and ordered online, you can see full details here. 

We also continue to offer one to one training either face to face or via video link. See here  for further details.

Saturday January 21st – Stanton Moor Winter Landscapes.

A full winter day’s intermediate level course with industrial subjects, a stone circle and natural subjects right up to sunset time. Limited to just 4 photographers, with places costing £99.00 each. Places available.

Saturday January 28th – Beginners’ Digital Photography in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

An entry level course which assumes no prior knowledge of photography, and is suitable for all makes and models of digital stills cameras. Held in a comfortable village hall near Matlock in Derbyshire, the course is limited to just 6 photographers. Places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

Saturday February 18th – Winter Landscapes in the White Peak.

Learn how to use long exposures with moving water in one of the Peak District’s most beautiful dales. An intermediate level course limited to just 4 photographers, with places costing £99.00 each. Places available.

Saturday February 25th – Beginners’ Digital Photography in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

An entry level course which assumes no prior knowledge of photography, and is suitable for all makes and models of digital stills cameras. Held in a comfortable village hall near Matlock in Derbyshire, the course is limited to just 6 photographers. Places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

Saturday March 18th – Moorland Landscapes near Sheffield.

A full day intermediate level course for just 4 photographers. Photographing waterfalls, abandoned millstones and gritstone edges until after sunset. Places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

Saturday March 25th – Beginners’ Digital Photography in Derbyshire: Getting Off Auto Mode.

An entry level course which assumes no prior knowledge of photography, and is suitable for all makes and models of digital stills cameras. Held in a comfortable village hall near Matlock in Derbyshire, the course is limited to just 6 photographers. Places cost £99.00 each. Places available.

More course dates for 2023 will added shortly, and if you would like to be kept informed of all the training courses we are running when they are announced, please sign up to our newsletter.

We are also able to offer one to one training either in person, or via video link.

Saturday, November 19th from 9.00am to 4.30pm. £99.00 per person. 

This intermediate level landscape photography course has been timed to take advantage of the wonderful colours of autumn, and will be held on the moors around Fox House (close to the border between Derbyshire and Sheffield). The course is also accessible by public transport.

The course is being held on November 19th, and features a whole day’s photography, starting just after sunrise at 9.00am and finishing after sunset at 4.30pm. 

This part of the Peak District offers a wonderful range of subjects – including waterfalls, colourful oak and birch woodlands, old millstone quarries, and natural gritstone outcrops. If we are lucky, we might well get some mist in the morning – this is one of the best spots in the Peak District for temperature inversions! For those interested in close-up and macro subjects, there should be plenty of interesting fungi at this time of year as well.

To allow all participants to get plenty of individual attention, the course will be limited to just four photographers, with places costing £99.00 each.

Please contact us if you would like to request a booking form to reserve a place on this course.

Continue reading “Peak District Waterfalls and Woodlands in Autumn”

Saturday January 28th – 10.00am to 4.30pm.

Saturday February 25th – 10.00am to 4.30pm.

Saturday March 25th – 10.00am to 4.30pm.

 

To enable proper social distancing, there will be a maximum of only 6 people on each course. Places cost £99.00 each. Please contact us if you would like to be emailed a booking form to reserve a place.

These one day courses are being held in the village of Tansley, near Matlock in Derbyshire. They are run in a relaxed and informal atmosphere, and designed to bring together people with similar levels of ability. Group numbers are deliberately kept low so that the workshops are flexible and easily adapted to suit the specific needs and level of experience of the participants. Continue reading “Beginners’ Digital Photography Courses in Derbyshire – Getting off Auto Mode”

This course has now taken place, but you can see details of all our other courses over the coming months here.

Sunday May 29th, 10.30am to 6.30pm. Places cost £99.00 each.

This course will be limited to just six photographers – so everyone will receive plenty of individual attention and have their questions answered. Please contact us to request a booking form.

The relics of our industrial past can be extremely photogenic, and this unique workshop in and around Elsecar (between Sheffield and Barnsley in South Yorkshire) will give you the chance to photograph some excellent examples. 

Most of the workshop will be spent at the former Hemingfield Colliery, where we will have exclusive access. This well preserved colliery was developed in the 1840s, and worked the Barnsley coal seam until 1920. From then until 1989, it worked as a pumping station to keep other local mines dry. The site was finally bought by the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery in 2014 – and apart from on open days – is not open to the public, so we are fortunate to be given exclusive access for this course. Part of the course fee will be going to help them conserve and protect the site. More details about the mine and its history can be seen here on their website. Continue reading “Photographing the Industrial Heritage of South Yorkshire”