One of the lovely things about a proper wide angle lens is that you can get close to a big object and still get it all in. This is the rustic cottage, caught by one of our students with a 10-24mm Tamron lens on a photography course at Stourhead.
Well, it was too windy on 21st January to let us into the gardens….they had to be closed due to high winds! That’s a first for us! Our merry band of intrepid photographers weren’t to be put off! Photography Made Simple students seem to be made of sterner stuff, and off they went with a theme to explore the bits which weren’t closed. The first job was to go out without their camera’s and come back with a ‘plan’….a new way of working for them, but which resulted in some wonderful, well thought-out and planned shots. Given that this was a Landscape photography course (and Stourhead is a perfect location for landscapes), and even though scuppered by the wind, everyone still managed to go home with several photo’s that they were happy enough to blow up and put on their walls! (Rachel’s guarantee).
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 were delighted to be asked to run a photography course for the National Trust. Our happy band of 8-13 year olds did a fine job, aided and abetted by the NT’s fine Educational Officer Anne Butler.
Apart from the pictures with children in them, all these were taken by the children. Can you spot the ones taken by the nine year olds?
If you want photographs taken with flair, style and humour, ask your children to take them!