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Photography Tuition - what I can bring to you

Whether on a high-spec camera, a compact or a smartphone, do you find taking photographs helps you switch off from life’s pressures? Would you like to improve your picture-taking, learn how to select, edit, enhance, archive and get your best images into print? Are you studying photography at school and need some extra help or an advanced amateur thinking of switching careers?

My own photography journey started about 15 years ago with a very basic manual film camera, learning the fundamentals - and from my mistakes.

Even if you simply take snaps on your smartphone and are happy with that, there are some simple but transformative ways I can help you take more successful pictures. In just one session my aim will be to arm and inspire you.

Over the years I have taught many age groups - within schools at primary level, with older children and teenagers taking GCSE and A-Level, in further education colleges, prisons, with individual adult hobbyists and more advanced amateurs looking for help to set up professionally.

Some areas of photography I can help you with:

Photographing your Family & Portraits

Young toddler with bottom lip out, his cycling helmet on, a cross expression and folded arms stands by his bike that's laying on the ground.

Three girls doing football training with the one on the right with legs out looking at the camera having just struck the ball.

Two girl siblings sitting either side of their brother on logs in the landscape with their brother jumping high into the air in the middle of the frame.

Two boys without their tops on laughing at the camera , the one on the right has his mouth wide open and is very happy!

Holiday, Travel & on the Street

A crowd of revellers sitting and standing around in a wood at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk listening to a girl sitting on the right playing guitar.

The little boy is dropping some money for the busker who sits with his guitar and puts his thumb up in thanks on London's embankment.

A mother stands and looks down on her toddler who is sitting on the ground eating from a tin plate in India.

A woman in a pink sari headdress walks out of her house and into the landscape with an old wall drawing of a woman with a pot on her head that you can just see on the wall to the left.

A goat herder with his stick braced and balanced across his shoulders and with a bright red turban leads the herd of goats following behind him along the dusty road in India.

Women in a shop door very close together in colourful clothes, Uadaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Taking pictures in the Landscape

Light coming through an underpass bridge with a path and river.

Tide right out and the patterns and shapes of the silt and sand in black and white with a bird sitting on the horizon.

View of pine Christmas trees in the snow with the low clouds covering them in Berwang, Austria. .

Leaves, plants, cobwebbs and raindrops; a close up in a wood.

Two girls sitting on the horizon of a meadow silhouetted against the light after a thunderstorm.

Young girl stands in the sea and raises her arms up to the evening sun and the boats on the horizon in Ibiza.

Story-telling & Projects

We can learn how to make a strong photographic record of an event or a relationship and to build a story or record over time. The pictures below are of my daughter and my mother on a short trip between lockdowns to ‘take Nann to look at the sea’.