Our Photography Courses Blog - entries for January 2012

It was so windy at Stourhead yesterday that the National Trust closed the gardens to the public.  Still, we got some nice pics over the wall and of the house.

This is Lady Penelope’s house from Thunderbirds, you know.

We’ve confirmed lots of dates for later this year and even into 2013 – if you’re planning to come on a photography course at Stourhead in the future we’ll be there well into 2013.

We have decided to give our students something to photograph that illustrates depth of field, and can be carried easily in a camera bag. Ligia came along to a photography course in Ashton Court, Bristol with her new Xmas camera.  So… ducks:

Great shallow depth of field!

We had a great day at Ashton Court on Monday…Lance, Elliott and Peter were thrown mercilessly into taking photographs of ordinary objects in extraordinary places, by Rachel…and after a brief moment of ‘Eeeek…what shall I do?’, they came up with some amazing photographs! As usual, Rachel promised that they would go home with several images that they would be proud enough of to hang on their wall. (It’s all about going out of your ‘comfort zone’…honest!!! :0) ).

Lance really got creative with this wooden fork!

Love the reflection!

Although the weather was dark, cold and awful, the three intrepid photographers were not to be put off by a bit of English, winter weather,….and there’s nothing you can do about it anyway!!! We think you’ll agree that they came back with some stunning shots…so very well done!

We like to make our themes vague but at the same time specific, if that makes any sense.  The hope is that you have to stretch yourself to take the kind of pictures you may not have thought of.  This month’s dozen pictures show the kind of diversity we really like to see:

Although photography is not a team sport, we think that this month’s pictures were substantially better than last month’s, possibly due to the more involving theme.  Looking forward to the next set at the end of the month!