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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Description - Woodland Photography Walk
Oakley Wood
Leamington Spa
This is an ancient oak woodland and Site of Special Scientific Interest with a small area of heathland. It is managed using traditional coppicing.
It has a colourful woodland canopy due to the mix of tree species including oak, birch, rowan, aspen and small-leaved and large-leaved lime.
Bilberry fruit and fungi including horn-of-plenty can be found by keen-eyed visitors to this enchanting woodland.
This reserve contains ancient woodland on a hillside. It is predominantly oak with more diversity of wildflowers on the lower slopes. Coppicing has been reintroduced to the wood and there is a small area of heathland.
Dominating the hillside along ‘the Slough’, this splendid woodland reserve is teeming with diversity, its mixed geology giving rise to distinct woodland types. Although sessile oak is prevalent, the wood also offers birch, rowan, aspen and small-leaved lime. Even its cousin the large-leaved lime can be found. An understorey of hazel and midland hawthorn competes with holly and wild privet.
Bluebell, wood anemone and primrose celebrate spring and provide a blanket of vibrant colour to the dappled woodland floor. Uncommon bilberry, heather, broad-leaved, helleborine and betony also grace these woods with their presence.
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
