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ABOUT OUR WILDLIFE COURSES
Prolific Wildlife and Landscape Photographer Ben Hall will be your main tutor on all these courses. You will learn insider techniques to creating that perfect wildlife shot, including field craft, composition and lighting. Minimum requirements for these courses is a lens capable of a 300mm focal distance. Maximum group size is seven on these courses.
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PUFFIN TOUR
Date: Wed 10th - Fri 12th June 2009
Prices: £661.25 (include VAT, Accommodation, Ferry Crossings, minibus transport and lunches, evening meals)
Tutor: Ben Hall
Max group size: 7
Deposit: £200
Transport: Peak Photo Centre minibus
Accommodation Slate Mill Lodge, Dale Road, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.
PUFFIN PHOTO TOUR
The aim is to arrive by 6pm on the Wednesday evening at Slate Mill Lodge, ready for a talk and introduction with Ben Hall. A relaxing dinner with the rest of the group and Ben will lead you nicely into the course ahead.
On the Thursday and Friday you will be transported in our minibus to the Dock, where you will take the Ferry and make the crossing over to Skomer Island. Under the expert guidance of Ben you will learn how to capture these exquisite birds and get shots you will be proud of! You will also be transported each evening back to the accommodation in our minibus.
Atlantic Puffins, one of four types of puffin, are a striking sea bird with a bright orange rounded bill. Their appearance is so familiar that just about everyone is able to recognise them, yet few people will have seen them in the wild. The reason for this lack of visibility is due to the fact that there are very few places in the UK where you can see puffins from the mainland due to their vulnerability from ground based mammals, especially rats. If however you are able to hop in a boat and sail out towards the islands that these small birds call home then they can be seen in their thousands.
There is an estimated population of around 12 million Atlantic puffins around the world with Britain holding a good proportion of those numbers all around the UK coast. Puffins feed mostly on small fish such as herring and they catch their prey by flying underwater, diving for around 20-40 seconds at a time. Puffins try to return to the same burrow with the same mate year in year out, laying only one egg during the breeding season.
These birds are a marvel to see circling at the base of the cliffs before whizzing out on their fishing trips. By reaching speeds of over 40mph they can cover vast distances in search of food. They are also an excellent bird to photograph as they are very trusting of humans if approached quietly and cautiously, allowing for a truly amazing UK wildlife experience.
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DIPPERS WORKSHOP
Date: Thur 28th - Fri 29th May 2009
Prices: £402.50 (include VAT, minibus transport and lunches)
Tutor: Ben Hall
Max group size: 7
Deposit: £100
Transport: Peak Photo Centre minibus
DIPPERS WORKSHOP
For this two day workshop we will be based in the Peak District. You will arrive at the Centre in Buxton at 9am on the first morning to meet your tutor for the course, Ben Hall. From there you will be transported out in our minibus to a couple of locations, stopping for lunch in between, where you will learn the craft of capturing these wonderful birds. Day two will be spent in our Digital Suite learning techniques in Photoshop relevant to Wildlife Photography.
Dippers are small, stout birds with short wings and legs. Their short wing span gives them a distinctive wirring noise when in flight. They have a characteristic 'bobbing' motion when beside water, which gives them there name.
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RED DEER WORKSHOP
Dates: Wed 14th - Thurs 15th October 2009
Tue 20th - Wed 21st October 2009
Prices: £454.25 (include VAT, minibus transport and lunches)
Tutor: Ben Hall
Max group size: 7
Deposit: £100
Transport: Peak Photo Centre minibus
RED DEER WORKSHOP
For this course you will meet at the Peak Photo Centre's base in Buxton and from there travel out for a full day photographing the Deer, with time allocated for lunch. Ben Hall will share his secrets on capturing these majestic animals in the height of the rutting season. Day two will be spent in the Digital Suite at the Centre's base where you will be taken through Photoshop techniques appropriate to Wildlife photography.
Red Deers are the largest undomesticated mammal in the United Kingdom. Each autumn there are exhilarating displays and battles for dominance amongst the stags in the quest of securing 'their bloodline'. |
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SEAL TOUR
Dates: Sun 22nd - Mon 23rd November 2009
Sat 12th - Sun 13th December 2009
Prices: £626.75 (include VAT, Accommodation, minibus transport to location and lunches)
Tutor: Ben Hall
Max group size: 7
Deposit: £200
Transport: Peak Photo Centre minibus
SEAL TOUR
Guests will arrive the evening before for an introductory talk and informal dinner with tutor Ben Hall and fellow group members. The following two days will be spent shooting Seals and their pups with expert guidance from award winning Wildlife Photographer, Ben Hall. You are sure to come home with breath taking images of these wonderful animals.
The two days will be spent at Donna Nook National Nature Reserve, which is probably the best place to photograph Grey Seals in the UK. The pregnant Seals haul themselves up on to dry land to give birth to a single cream coloured pup. The mothers will suckle their young pups for just three weeks, and in that time the pups will triple in body weight. In that time the mothers do not go back into the sea and live off their body fat whilst they are nursing. After the three weeks is up the pups are left to fend for themselves and the mothers return to the sea, where she will be ready to mate shortly after.
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