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Workshop Details and Biographies Contents: Photo Away Break Friday February 27th - Tuesday March 2nd, or Friday April 2nd - Tuesday April 6th Wholly inclusive long photographic weekends. Ideally suited to small groups such as camera clubs, photo-friends, colleges and the like Collection and drop off at Inverness airport, to coincide with flights from and to London Gatwick, and / or London Luton. Check out www.easyjet.com for flights as little as £1-50 (that really is one pound, fifty pence!). Also possible from Glasgow International. After collecting you we will have photo stops on the way back to Quiraing Lodge. Then we will have 4 nights and 3 days photography, processing, printing, photo chat, along with our great food! We will drive you back to Inverness on Tuesday. £195, inclusive of travel from / to Inverness airport, accommodation, all meals, and some materials. DESIGN YOUR OWN PHOTO AWAY BREAK! We have some weekends free in 2004, or even consider: Why not get a group of fellow photographers together, perhaps your class or your club, or simply a group of friends or family and let us do all the hard work, as above, once you get to Inverness Airport? This is also available from Glasgow International, to coincide with flights such as Easyjet flights from Bristol. Discuss your ideas with us! Landscape Photography Workshop The Isle of Skye, and especially the Trotternish Peninsular, offers fantastic opportunities to the landscape photographer. We will travel to a number of locations during the 4 full days of the workshop, ranging from the sands and rocky foreshore on our doorstep to the dramatic hills and bizarre rock formations of The Quiraing. The rapidly changing light of the Isle of Skye provides an inspirational challenge for the landscape photographer. The workshop starts on Thursday evening with a tasty meal and a gentle introduction. The next 4 days will include, as well as the various field trips, lots of tuition, feedback, discussion and practical work. Everything will be tailored to meet the expectations, skills, interests and experience of the participants. We will build to a climax on Monday evening with a celebratory meal and a small exhibition of work produced during the workshop! Whether a seasoned photographer or a relative beginner the workshop may be suitable for you. Landscape photography incorporates many different themes and styles of work – it will be fascinating to see how others tackle similar subjects, and the results will show a diverse range of photographic purpose. Colour, monochrome and digital are all valid ways of interpreting the land, and we have the means to back up your camera work in all 3 mediums. Tuition will include technical aspects of exposure, responding to light and composition, the camera and accessories, and of course the darkroom – participants will be able to process and print their own work with advice and guidance, including negatives brought with them. It is hoped that everybody will bring some for their previous work, giving a good opportunity for feedback and discussion – this is often the most informative part of a workshop! Sam has been teaching photography for more than 20 years to all levels, as well as producing and selling both commercial and personal work, in Britain and abroad. He will share some of this work and his experience and skills in an informative, inspiring and purposeful way that responds to individual learning needs. Residential fee £425, non residential fee £285. Inclusive of all accommodation, meals, travel to locations and some materials. Sunday May 23rd – Saturday May29th The end of May is possibly the best time to see, enjoy and photograph much of Skye’s natural history. We plan to enable you to photograph fulmars, on their nests with young, on the cliffs nearby; to photograph seals on a boat trip at Dunvegan Castle; to photograph the diverse range of Skye’s flora, much of it flowering at this time of year; and to photograph some of Skye’s dramatic rivers and waterfalls. Close to the Lodge there are plenty of opportunities to watch and possibly photograph many birds, such as the dippers on the river, and curlew, oystercatcher, ringed plover and others on the seashore here. We will almost certainly be able to see otters in front of the Lodge, possibly as last year on successive evenings feeding, preening and resting on nearby rocks. Orchids will be in flower almost everywhere we go, and the flag iris may be at their peak along with other flowers such as ragged robin and sea pinks. We will enable you to have some film processed and printed for critique of your work here, as well as evaluating some work you bring with you. We will end the week with a celebratory exhibition and dinner. Residential fee £465, non-residential fee £325. Inclusive of accommodation, all meals, travel to locations, some materials. July More details to follow Monochrome darkroom workshop with Sam Gardener and Suzy Gray An ideal opportunity for inexperienced and intermediate level photographers to learn and practice a wide range of camera and darkroom skills, while enjoying our hospitality, and some of Skye’s fantastic landscapes.
We will take you to a variety of locations on Skye to make, and talk
about, photographs. You will make contact prints, work prints, and by the end of the week, finished prints for a celebratory last evening show! We hope you will bring some existing work with you for critique and comment from us, and from your fellow workshop participants. Perhaps you will bring some negatives to print here, to improve print quality, or to check exposure and development facts. And maybe bring some “work in progress” or problem prints. There’s a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 on this workshop, so there’s plenty of scope for us to respond to your particular areas of interest, needs and aims! At the camera stage we will deal with exposure, composition, choice of film, use of filters, light, etc. We will explain the zone system, especially in its simpler form more appropriate for 35mm and 120 film, and share lots of discussion about photography. In the darkroom we will cover many of the intricacies of film processing, and the combination of good purposeful camera work with correct / appropriate development will give you the best possible opportunity to make really worthwhile prints to your satisfaction. It was Ansel Adams who said, “The negative is the score, the
print the performance”.
The basics of printing include correct exposure, choice of contrast grade, both with graded and multigrade papers and correct development. Beyond these we will concentrate on the factors that may turn a print into a masterpiece! Split grade printing, dodging and burning and flashing are just a few skills we will help you to try out in the darkroom. Then such things as the varied ways of print toning, finishing, mounting and framing will be considered, along with sequencing and selection of images. Our darkroom is equipped with enlargers for negative formats up to 10 x 8. Throughout the week you will also have access to our extensive library, and will be surrounded by Sam’s, Suzy’s and others’ fine photographs on the walls. As well as the organized trips out, darkroom sessions and other group work, you will be welcome to use facilities here in your own time, and go out onto the beach or elsewhere to take photographs. Please come equipped with your photographic gear and film (we do usually have some film for sale, but it’s best to bring your own preferred stock). Also please bring appropriate clothing for possible cold, windy, wet weather! We will gladly answer further queries - please phone or email. Residential fee £xxx, non residents £xxx (inclusive of all accommodation, meals, travel to locations, and reasonable darkroom materials)
A 4-weekend photography course, over the first 4 months of the year,
with 3 weekends are spent here at Quiraing Lodge, and the other weekend is spent at locations around Glencoe. Enjoy some of the sights of Skye and Glencoe, enjoy our hospitality, learn, practice and improve your photography! Ideally suited to keen photographers with some black and white darkroom
experience.
Dates: 2005 dates to be arranged! One weekend in each of January, February, March, April 2005. Arrive Friday evening for a meal and photo chat. Stay Friday and Saturday nights, until Sunday afternoon. Each weekend is inclusive of all accommodation, meals, tuition and reasonable materials. Each weekend we will take you to different locations on Skye, to take photos; we / you will process some of your results, and also make some prints. The second weekend will be spent in Glencoe – comfortable accommodation and lots of practical photography in the area. Between weekends, you have the chance to take photos back home, visit exhibitions, view books and to bring results the next time, for feedback and comment. This will enable you to build up a small portfolio during the course – something to be proud of, and to take you further into great, creative photography.
Weather and individual needs and desires may mean we make changes to the schedule. With a small group as this will be, it is possible to customize the course to suit everybody’s wants. In winter, Skye and the landscape is at it’s most beautiful in some peoples opinion. Sunlight is soft and always from low in the sky. Colours are muted, and mostly warm tones. There may be snow especially higher up, on the Quiraing or the Trotternish ridge. However as well as the beauty, you should come prepared for possible inclement weather! Participants will be able to work in whatever medium they choose – black and white, colour print, slide, or digital. We look forward to seeing some innovative and free ranging ideas, and our aim is to help you fulfill your photographic dreams! 2004 prices - Residential fee - £485, non residents £325
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Increasingly Sam has worked independently staging workshops and other events with such luminaries as Fay Godwin; and running photography field trips throughout the British Isles and to France and Iceland. A natural progression is to Quiraing Lodge on the Isle of Skye. Sam has recently taken over the Lodge and is developing a range of photography and arts and crafts workshops. Already, the first programme, for 2001, offers many exciting opportunities. Sam`s photography has been sold extensively over the years: to travel companies, periodicals and other publications; he has exhibited widely and his fine prints are in many private collections, both in the U.K. and abroad. Sam`s photography reflects and responds to his interests in the landscapes all around him, and his concerns for our environment. It is both visually and factually informed, sometimes experimental, but always showing his deep experience and understanding of photography. Click here for Workshop Details
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