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WHERE COULD PHOTOGRAPHY TAKE YOU IN 2022? FIONA TURNBULL, co-owner and tutor at Lacock Photography, discusses her lifelong passion for photography and the spectacular places it can take you. A red deer on the Isle of Mull
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have been in love with photography since my early teenage years growing up in Glasgow. I quite clearly remember my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic, purchased with my Saturday job savings, and how much fun I had documenting my school friends on our drizzly walking holidays in the Scottish countryside. Technology has certainly changed since the 1970s, as you can see from my telescopesized lens, but my enthusiasm for photography never has. On my most recent and perhaps most daring photography expedition yet, my ‘photography buddies’ (as we call each other) and I journeyed 10 hours to the Isle of Mull by car and ferry, in pursuit of otters in their natural habitat. Arriving on the mountainous island of the Inner Hebrides, located off the west coast of Scotland, we were astounded by the sheer abundance of wildlife - along the road we casually
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encountered red deer, herons, golden eagles and highland cows and felt privileged to witness a thriving wild place, dominated by nature.
Fiona has been teaching the beginner’s course at the independent photography training school in Lacock, Wiltshire for a decade, and has helped thousands of students take the exciting first steps in their photography journeys.
Led by our truly expert guide, Andy Howard, who can be aptly described • lacockphotography.com as the Sherlock Holmes of the otter world, we caught sight of the first "Technology has just 15 minutes after setting up certainly changed camp. Camouflaging ourselves since the 1970s, as amid seaweed and rocks, with Andy you can see from my even tracking the wind’s direction telescope-sized lens, to prevent the otters picking up our but my enthusiasm scent, we witnessed their day to day lives at the loch. As we watched these for photography curious creatures dive, fish, snack on never has." crabs, play, nap and fight for a week, 6 hours a day in the wet and cold, I reflected thankfully on how my interest in photography has shaped my life and propelled my most magical adventures. If you have an interest in photography and would like to see where it could take you in 2022, take a look at Lacock Photography's ‘Beginner’s Photography Workshop (Part 1)’ on their website. The stars of the show, the otters!
