First week of the month Length 2hrs. 9:30 am-11:30 am Informal Woodland photography walk workshops in and around Warwickshire Woodlands | All Levels Welcome
Summary
Location: Various Warwickshire Woodlands
Dates: 2024/2025 - 09:30 - 11:30
Millisons Wood, Meriden - Mon May 6
Piles Coppice, Coventry - Mon Nov 4
Crackley Wood, Kenilworth - Fri Nov 8
Hay Woods - Solihull Fri Jan 3
Tile Hill Wood - Coventry - Mon Feb 3
Oakley Wood - Leamington Spa Mon Mar 3
Participants: Max 6
Fitness: 1. Easy
Photography Workshop Event Details: Woodland Walks
Description: Simplifying Woodland Photography: Unlocking the Secrets to Capturing the Beauty of Nature
My aim is not to instruct you what to shoot, instead, I want to help you develop your own sense of visual awareness, photographic eye and your personal interpretation. I will be happy to help you with the “how to shoot” whatever it is you feel drawn to and wish to express through your creative vision using the camera to construct your intention. The walks around these selected woodlands are aimed to promote our senses and connection to trees/woodland/nature - as we walk, observe and take in our environment we may decide to make a photograph, or not.
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Coventry, Warwickshire - Woodland Photography Walk
Piles Coppice
Ancient, semi-natural, oak-lime woodland. It has many flat paths transversing the site and connecting adjacent open access land and Brandon Wood to the east. Despite being adjacent to the A46, it remains a fairly quiet wood to explore.
Brandon Wood
Brandon Wood lies about 6 km east of Coventry and covers a total area of 178 acres. It was quoted in the Doomsday Book as woodland in 1086 and is now a designated Planted Ancient Woodland Site (PAWS). Since 1981 it has been maintained and improved by voluntary workers from the Friends of Brandon Wood and is now reverting to natural broad-leaved woodland. Nationally, it is the first designated Community Woodland and was purchased from the Forestry Commission in 2000 by the Friends.
Woodland Photography Walk
Woodlands, trees and nature have always been a source of inspiration, therapy and photography for me. I am always drawn to trees wherever I am photographing so I decided to make 2019 the year I spent even more time amongst trees and in the woodlands. My own woodland photography has improved immensely since 2019 as i learnt to read the woods differently and find my own connection to the many challenges of woodland photography.
I want to share and enjoy the tranquillity of our woodland environments with others so am listing twelve-monthly photo walks (one each month, on the first Tuesday of the month) around twelve different woodland habitats across Warwickshire and the West Midlands. The locations are renowned for interest and variety so offer something for every interest (abstract, macro, nature portrait, vista, cameo shot) throughout the year.
My aim is not to instruct you what to shoot, instead, I want to help you develop your own sense of visual awareness, photographic eye and your personal interpretation. I will be happy to help you with the “how to shoot” whatever it is you feel drawn to and wish to express through your creative vision using the camera to construct your intention. You will be able to take these tips away with you to use on your own woodland photography.
“Give a man a fish you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish you feed them for life.”
Forest Bathing
This is the healing way of Shinrin-yoku Forest Therapy, the medicine of simply being in the forest. Shinrin-yoku is a term that means "taking in the forest atmosphere" or "forest bathing." It was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has become a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine.
The woodland photography walks around these selected woodlands are aimed to promote our senses and connection to trees/woodland/nature - as we walk, observe and take in our environment we may decide to make a photograph, or not.
“The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.” Albert Einstein
