Dates and venues for 2014

Pleased to announce the dates and venues for our 2014 workshops! Please check our web site for the details.

Six months on - loads of travel and loads of images !

Where to start - as with all things in life, it is best to start at the beginning which was a trip to Hungary (Budapest and Eger).  A fantastic city, with history in your face, whether architectural or political, with good food and wine as well as plenty of bars and cafes to rest in.

For me the great find was the architecture as this image shows, that survived the city's turbulent past.....

Then followed a long weekend with family in Sussex, which being early June the weather was kind and we managed to do some lovely walks in the rolling countryside made all the better with timeless images such as this ploughed field.....

Summer was then upon us, and so that lovely flower appears - the poppy - which never fails to impress me every year with its fragility and I think makes a cracking image....

However, what makes a classic English summer is the village fete with all its eccentricities such as the Punch and Judy as well as the morris dancers........

Then came the long long hot summer trip to California (more relative visiting) involving driving up the coast on Highway 1 and coming across this amazing beach with great timbers washed up every winter that people then made into structures.....

Back then to downtown San Francisco, and coming across a 1950's film set with amazing vintage cars........

And finally, off then to Portugal to get a little more sun before winter comes along.  We did have the sun (lots of it) which meant no camera work.....however, I thought readers might be interested in this rapid photo taken on the bridge across the River Tagus in Lisbon - an amazing long long structure.......

And so that sums up my travels for the last 6 months.  As you can imagine planning has begun for 2014, but that does depend on saving hard which is easier to say than do especially when my camera needs replacing !