Dates: Monday 20 to Friday 24 September 2027 (five days / four nights)
Price: £1,195 per person, with a private room
Deposit: £400 to secure your place, with the £795 balance due on 22 July 2027, 60 days before the trip
Accommodation: four nights, with your own private room
Group size: four guests maximum
Experience: suitable for photographers who understand the basics of aperture, shutter speed and ISO
Fitness: expect walks over beaches, dunes, grass and uneven coastal paths while carrying your equipment
Transport: optional return transport from my Norwich address, plus transport between workshop locations, is included
Northumberland is made for landscape photography: long beaches, tidal islands, fishing villages, rugged headlands and castles rising straight out of the coast. This five-day residential workshop gives us time to work with changing tides, weather and light instead of racing through a fixed checklist of locations.
I keep these trips deliberately small. With only four guests, everyone gets proper tuition and enough room to work. I will take care of the driving between locations in my van and adapt the plan around the most promising conditions, leaving you free to concentrate on your photography. The van has 240V mains power for charging camera and drone batteries, plus a camping stove for tea and coffee between shoots.
The final itinerary will depend on the weather, tides and access conditions, but likely locations include:
• Bamburgh Beach and Bamburgh Castle
• Craster, Embleton Bay and views towards Dunstanburgh Castle
• Holy Island and Lindisfarne when the safe causeway times suit the light
• Howick and the rocky coastline around Rumbling Kern
• Alnmouth and its tidal estuary
• An inland viewpoint towards the Cheviot Hills when conditions favour it
These are possibilities rather than a rigid promise. The advantage of a small residential trip is that we can go where the light and weather are working best.
Monday: travel north, arrive during the afternoon, settle into the accommodation and head out for our first evening shoot.
Tuesday to Thursday: sunrise, coastal and landscape sessions planned around the tides and forecast, with breaks for meals. There will be ample time back at the accommodation to edit photographs, review images together and receive individual feedback before heading out again for the later light.
Friday: a final early session, breakfast, check-out and the journey home.
This is a working outline rather than a timetable that forces us to stay in the wrong place when the best light is happening somewhere else.
Time reviewing your photographs is an important part of the workshop. We’ll look through images from our sessions, discuss what is working and explore ways to develop them.
There will be ample time for editing photographs and receiving individual feedback on composition, exposure, colour and your editing choices.
These sessions will be practical and relaxed, with time to ask questions and try ideas that you can take back into the next shoot.
We will stay together in a comfortable private house positioned to give us sensible access to the coast. Every guest will have their own private bedroom.
Breakfasts, packed lunches, evening meals, tea, coffee, water and planned snacks are included. Meals will be arranged around the photography schedule using the accommodation and local cafés or pubs. Alcoholic drinks are not included.
I’ll contact everyone before the trip to collect dietary requirements. Please contact me before booking if you have a severe allergy or a requirement that may need specialist preparation, so I can confirm what can be accommodated safely.
If you are travelling from Norfolk, you are welcome to leave your car at my Norwich address and travel with me in the van to Northumberland and back again. I will also drive the group between workshop locations throughout the trip.
This is optional. If you would rather make your own way to the accommodation or use your own vehicle during the trip, that is absolutely fine. The exact Norwich meeting address and departure details will be sent privately to booked guests.
This trip is best suited to photographers who are already comfortable with the basic relationship between aperture, shutter speed and ISO. You do not need to be an expert. I will help with composition, exposure, filters, long exposures and responding to difficult conditions.
Some locations involve walking over sand, dunes, grass and uneven coastal paths while carrying equipment. The Craster approach towards Dunstanburgh is approximately 1.3 miles each way. The route and pace will be adapted sensibly, but guests should be comfortable with this general level of activity.
• Four nights’ accommodation in a private room
• Breakfasts, packed lunches and evening meals
• Tea, coffee, water and planned snacks
• Small-group tuition throughout the workshop
• Optional return transport from my Norwich address to Northumberland
• Transport between workshop locations
• Time for editing photographs, image review and individual feedback
• Loan of a tripod and landscape filters if requested in advance
• 240V mains power for charging camera and drone batteries in the van
• Alcoholic drinks or additional food and drinks outside the planned meals
• Travel to and from my Norwich address if you use the included lift option
• Admission, parking or boat costs unless expressly listed as included
• Personal, travel and camera-equipment insurance
• Suitable breakdown cover if you choose to use your own vehicle
Northumberland’s coast is exposed, and the weather is part of the experience. Locations, timings and our indoor editing and image-review sessions may change so that we can make the best of the conditions and keep the group safe.
Any visit to Holy Island will depend on the published safe causeway crossing times and the conditions on the day. It will only be included when it works safely within the workshop plan.
I am a full-time photographer based in Norfolk. I have worked commercially since 2011, hold a BA and a Master’s degree in Photography, and have been running photography workshops since 2013. My workshops are practical and relaxed, with small groups, no egos and plenty of individual help.
The price is £1,195 per person, including four nights’ accommodation in a private room and the planned meals. A £400 deposit secures your place, with the remaining £795 due on 22 July 2027, 60 days before the trip starts. There are only four places.
Please read the workshop booking and cancellation information before booking.
Dates: Monday 20 to Friday 24 September 2027 (five days / four nights)
Price: £1,195 per person, with a private room
Deposit: £400 to secure your place, with the £795 balance due on 22 July 2027, 60 days before the trip
Accommodation: four nights, with your own private room
Group size: four guests maximum
Experience: suitable for photographers who understand the basics of aperture, shutter speed and ISO
Fitness: expect walks over beaches, dunes, grass and uneven coastal paths while carrying your equipment
Transport: optional return transport from my Norwich address, plus transport between workshop locations, is included
Northumberland is made for landscape photography: long beaches, tidal islands, fishing villages, rugged headlands and castles rising straight out of the coast. This five-day residential workshop gives us time to work with changing tides, weather and light instead of racing through a fixed checklist of locations.
I keep these trips deliberately small. With only four guests, everyone gets proper tuition and enough room to work. I will take care of the driving between locations in my van and adapt the plan around the most promising conditions, leaving you free to concentrate on your photography. The van has 240V mains power for charging camera and drone batteries, plus a camping stove for tea and coffee between shoots.
The final itinerary will depend on the weather, tides and access conditions, but likely locations include:
• Bamburgh Beach and Bamburgh Castle
• Craster, Embleton Bay and views towards Dunstanburgh Castle
• Holy Island and Lindisfarne when the safe causeway times suit the light
• Howick and the rocky coastline around Rumbling Kern
• Alnmouth and its tidal estuary
• An inland viewpoint towards the Cheviot Hills when conditions favour it
These are possibilities rather than a rigid promise. The advantage of a small residential trip is that we can go where the light and weather are working best.
Monday: travel north, arrive during the afternoon, settle into the accommodation and head out for our first evening shoot.
Tuesday to Thursday: sunrise, coastal and landscape sessions planned around the tides and forecast, with breaks for meals. There will be ample time back at the accommodation to edit photographs, review images together and receive individual feedback before heading out again for the later light.
Friday: a final early session, breakfast, check-out and the journey home.
This is a working outline rather than a timetable that forces us to stay in the wrong place when the best light is happening somewhere else.
Time reviewing your photographs is an important part of the workshop. We’ll look through images from our sessions, discuss what is working and explore ways to develop them.
There will be ample time for editing photographs and receiving individual feedback on composition, exposure, colour and your editing choices.
These sessions will be practical and relaxed, with time to ask questions and try ideas that you can take back into the next shoot.
We will stay together in a comfortable private house positioned to give us sensible access to the coast. Every guest will have their own private bedroom.
Breakfasts, packed lunches, evening meals, tea, coffee, water and planned snacks are included. Meals will be arranged around the photography schedule using the accommodation and local cafés or pubs. Alcoholic drinks are not included.
I’ll contact everyone before the trip to collect dietary requirements. Please contact me before booking if you have a severe allergy or a requirement that may need specialist preparation, so I can confirm what can be accommodated safely.
If you are travelling from Norfolk, you are welcome to leave your car at my Norwich address and travel with me in the van to Northumberland and back again. I will also drive the group between workshop locations throughout the trip.
This is optional. If you would rather make your own way to the accommodation or use your own vehicle during the trip, that is absolutely fine. The exact Norwich meeting address and departure details will be sent privately to booked guests.
This trip is best suited to photographers who are already comfortable with the basic relationship between aperture, shutter speed and ISO. You do not need to be an expert. I will help with composition, exposure, filters, long exposures and responding to difficult conditions.
Some locations involve walking over sand, dunes, grass and uneven coastal paths while carrying equipment. The Craster approach towards Dunstanburgh is approximately 1.3 miles each way. The route and pace will be adapted sensibly, but guests should be comfortable with this general level of activity.
• Four nights’ accommodation in a private room
• Breakfasts, packed lunches and evening meals
• Tea, coffee, water and planned snacks
• Small-group tuition throughout the workshop
• Optional return transport from my Norwich address to Northumberland
• Transport between workshop locations
• Time for editing photographs, image review and individual feedback
• Loan of a tripod and landscape filters if requested in advance
• 240V mains power for charging camera and drone batteries in the van
• Alcoholic drinks or additional food and drinks outside the planned meals
• Travel to and from my Norwich address if you use the included lift option
• Admission, parking or boat costs unless expressly listed as included
• Personal, travel and camera-equipment insurance
• Suitable breakdown cover if you choose to use your own vehicle
Northumberland’s coast is exposed, and the weather is part of the experience. Locations, timings and our indoor editing and image-review sessions may change so that we can make the best of the conditions and keep the group safe.
Any visit to Holy Island will depend on the published safe causeway crossing times and the conditions on the day. It will only be included when it works safely within the workshop plan.
I am a full-time photographer based in Norfolk. I have worked commercially since 2011, hold a BA and a Master’s degree in Photography, and have been running photography workshops since 2013. My workshops are practical and relaxed, with small groups, no egos and plenty of individual help.
The price is £1,195 per person, including four nights’ accommodation in a private room and the planned meals. A £400 deposit secures your place, with the remaining £795 due on 22 July 2027, 60 days before the trip starts. There are only four places.
Please read the workshop booking and cancellation information before booking.
