Lake District Mountain Photography Workshop Review By Trevor Thurlow LRPS
Scots Pines from Peggy’s Bridge
As a new member of the RPS Landscape Group I was really looking forward to this workshop based in and above the always beautiful Buttermere Valley on Friday 8 October 2021. Though the weather and light, as is often the case, was sometimes challenging I was not to be disappointed. Six members of the Landscape Group assembled at Gatesgarth Farm Car Park in good time to meet our Workshop Leader; Ade Gidney FRPS. The day getting off to a positive start as the park and pay machine was “out of order.” After a brief resume of the plan for the day it was time to set off for the hills. With Ade’s first piece of advice being that we were not looking to just take photographs but should be aiming to capture well composed and considered images. He also advised us that he was not here to capture images for himself but was here to help and advise us on camera settings, compositions etc, if and as required. This proved invaluable to most of the group, some of whom were new to their respective cameras. The conditions at first looked promising with the sun peeping through over High Stile and the brisk wind, which was to remain a constant for the day, sending shafts of light over the surrounding hillsides. Setting off along the footpath at the head of Buttermere we soon reached Peggy’s Bridge and the first photo opportunity of the day. The light playing on the Scots Pines behind us and enticingly on the reed flanked beck discharging into Buttermere with the full length of the lake being laid out in front of us. January 2022 Volume 7 Number 1
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