Photography course dates in early 2012

We still have some room on our early 2012 dates for the beginners and ‘serious amateur’ digital photography courses, for more details CLICK HERE.

The dates are;
23rd January 2012 – Digital photography for Beginners
16th April 2012 – Digital photography for the Serious Amateur

To book your place please call 01946-595476 or email adulteducation0@whitehaven.cumbria.sch.uk

Photography Courses for Autumn and Winter are upon us!

Great news – dates for three of my photography courses in Whitehaven have been announced.  So far we have a great response and the courses will be popular.

News update – a busy time! And the courses have completed!

The last few weeks have been fantastic behind the camera!! With weddings near Barnsley and also Warrington (yes I do go outside Cumbria!) and plenty of work for the newspapers I’ve been flat out and thoroughly enjoyed it. Some great freelance work was scarred by the tragic loss of life in the local area and we all pray for their families and friends.

The two digital photography courses have completed now with very happy customers and I’m looking forward to the next ones after the summer holidays. We had fantastic and enthusiastic students enrolled and the course was enjoyed by all – the complaint was that it wasn’t long enough!

Beginners course underway, sign up for the Serious Amateur course in April!

With 13 people on the beginners photography course we’re well underway!
Our ‘Serious Amateurs’ course starts in April and we’re taking bookings now so don’t miss out!

Click the little grey arrow at the top right of the site (or click ‘read more’ and then this link) for more details.

2010 Whitehaven based Photography Course dates announced

The new dates for the first photography courses of 2010 have been released (February and April) and we’re taking bookings now!

Click the little grey arrow at the top right of the site (or click ‘read more’ and then this link) for more details.

Gaiety Cinema pictures cause a stir

It seems that my pictures which ran in The Whitehaven News have provoked a good reaction!
Page 10 of this weeks’ paper (23rd December 2009) features letters from the public who having seen my pictures are backing up the plea to re-open the cinema, especially in light of the Workington bridge disaster which makes it difficult to get to the local multiplex.

There is even a Facebook group called Re-open the Gaiety Cinema – please join up!

My full Gaiety picture set can be viewed here; http://www.flickr.com/photos/horrgakx/sets/72157622745861702/

This is a link to the feature on the Whitehaven News’ own website.
Here’s a jpg copy of the feature in The Whitehaven News (hosted on Flickr).
Here is a link to The Whitehaven News letter page.

Beginners photography course concludes

The Digital photography for beginners course concluded successfully today with the last field trip.  Put back a couple of weeks due to the weather, we were at Ennerdale today looking at the effects of low light and slow shutter speeds.

We had a great class, everyone enjoyed what they learned and some of the class are now sitting the next level course.

Captured with a 25-second shutter speed

Marathon weekend behind the camera

Another fantastic and marathon weekend behind the camera; 2x Cricket matches, Workington Reds playing at home, a charity bed push, soldier returning from Afghanistan, a kids party, stock photos of a trading estate, a ploughing competition, a celebrity chef and finally; Solfest!!

It was quite a challenge this weekend, I was amazingly busy, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I’m very happy with the results!!

Caught!

Going for the ball

Crispian on guitar

Theatre Tol production

A specatcular theatre came to Whitehaven; Theatre Tol’s production of Corazon de Angeles.  An amazing visual spectacle, the likes of which haven’t been seen in Cumbria for a long time!

Amazing combination of theatre and opera which was performed inside the crowd!

The fireworks finished off the evening.

Some content hosted by www.flickr.com

4th July Fireworks in Whitehaven

The new management at Sellafield Limited here in Cumbria are American.  They put on a spectacular 4th July fireworks display and my shoot went well.  I managed to shoot for the entire duration and then picked the best of them in post-production.

I think the next time this happens I’ll be moving closer to the water to get the reflections.