Charlotte Bellamy Photography Newsletter

May 2023

Welcome

From Charlie

In This Issue

Welcome

It’s been a while since the last newsletter!

Article

Can familiarity help or hinder your photography?

The rainbow effect

Tulip colour

Workshops

All the latest workshop dates and info

Article

From mentee to mentor

What the eye sees

A rare attempt at street photography

Tour review

A selection of images from tour members

The winners of the ICM challenge 2023 so far

This year is off to a great start – check out the winners from the first three months.

Useful links charlotte@charlottebellamy.com Enjoy

I always promise no spamming and just a few useful newsletters a year, but this one has taken a while to reach you! November 2022 was the last one I sent out, and that seems like forever ago. To be honest, the reason for this has been a good one for me. Despite planning a quiet start to 2023, I managed to run six online courses, with three deep dive courses running simultaneously at one point. Thank you all so much for your support and enthusiasm with the online learning opportunities. As you will see in the workshops section, I have a new course lines up for this year for all the enthusiastic ICM photographers among you.

As I write this newsletter, I’m just back from three wonderful weeks of tours here in Holland guiding a truly international selection of photographers from England, Scotland, Canada, India and Israel, who were blessed with (nearly 100%) dry weather during the tours. We even managed a couple of sunrises, interspersed with apple cake eating, cheese tasting and of course masses of photographic opportunities. I’ve just unpacked my bag, which will get a rest of 10 days, then I am off to Norfolk for the waves and woodland tour, this year organised with Light and Land Photography tours.

I’ve been overwhelmed with the ongoing interest for more courses going forward, and I have finally got some concrete dates for the diary. So, I hope that those of you who have been patiently waiting, will find the courses and dates that you were looking for. As ever, if the dates don’t work for you, please let me know, it may be that the initial dates are nearly full, and I can organise a new set that work for you. Equally if you and a minimum of 3 friends or camera club acquaintances are interested in a course, let me know and we can organise something tailored to you.

This newsletter sees a bit of a new look, attempting to drag the newsletter towards something more visually interesting! Those of you who have seen a few, I’d love to know what you think of the new look.

So, what have I got in store for you in this newsletter? A riot of colour abounds from my collection of images in ‘The rainbow effect’. The main article ‘Can familiarity help or hinder your photography?’ takes a look at how, after 10 years, I still manage to find new ways to make images on my doorstep. A few of those who joined me for the tours have kindly shared a few of their images from the tours. And of course, there are all the new workshop dates and a selection of links at the end that you may like to dip into from other sources.

If there is anything you would like to see in future newsletters, please do get in touch and let me know.