This means I haven’t had much luck in finding a base to run the courses from. I am, however, looking into setting up a longer term course which would run over several weeks as an evening course. I have found a possible location but things are moving slowly so can’t really tell you anything more. I do hope it will work out though.

The one day courses are still something I would like to run though so I’ll keep looking for a room to hire and try and get something set up soon.

Until then, I have a few more articles planned so hopefully that will give you some help and inspiration to get your camera out and take more pictures.

I am planning more courses for 2010 but they are not going to start until spring as I will be moving house early next year and will need to find a new location to run the courses. Along with the standard basics course, as I have lots of requests for them, I will be setting up an intermediate course to cover things in a bit more detail and maybe look at certain areas of photography a bit more specifically. I am also looking once again into running an Adobe Photoshop course. This was always my original plan as Photoshop goes hand in hand with digital photography. This does largely depend on what facilities I can find and what they will charge me, but hopefully I can get something arranged.

Along with my courses, I plan to organise a few more photography walks throughout the year. I enjoy the photo walks a lot as it actually gives me a chance to take some pictures which I haven’t had a lot of time to do lately. There are lots of locations that are easy to get to around the North West, so I’ll be sorting more of them out.

I will be doing some product reviews too. The difficulty in doing a product review is that you need the product to use and test. This can be expensive, but as I have collected a few new bits of equipment over the last few months and will no doubt be collecting some more, I’ll try and review the bits that I think will be of use to other photographers. If companies would like to donate anything for me to test and review, then I’d be more than happy to do so.

I am hoping 2010 is a bigger photography year for me than it was this year, I had high hopes at the beginning of the year, but life just got in the way. With a new location and some new motivation I reckon 2010 will be a lot more photographic.

I have also had several email enquiries come through, but have been unable to reply due to problems with the email address that has been entered, so if you have emailed me in the last few days asking about places left on the course, then yes, there are places left so please book online and I will confirm your booking via email.

The dates are Sunday 29th November 2009 and Sunday 6th December 2009. The day costs £35 per person and will include a light buffet lunch.

All the details can be found here.

There are 15 places on each course, but I have had a fair few inquiries before I was able to confirm the dates so I am hoping the places get booked up. If anyone has any questions about the course, then just let me know.

So I am sorry I couldn’t get one organised.

But, September will give me the chance to run a course. Sunday September 20th will be the next course. There will be 15 places available, a buffet lunch and hopefully dry weather but who knows what the weather will do for the rest of the year? Click here for more info on the course.

I am also going to plan a trip to Chester Zoo on Saturday September 19th. Now for this I need to get atleast 15 people in order to get a discounted entry fee, so please let me know if you are interested so I can work out the numbers. It will only cost the entry fee, which at most will be about £15 but I hope to get it down to about £12 if the group is big enough.

If you have any questions about either of these activities, just let me know, but please be aware that from 22nd August to September 12th I will not be able to respond as I will be out taking photos in the Canadian Wilderness, far away from any internet connection or mobile signal…. BLISS!!

Also don’t forget the photo walk on July 18th, the more people come along the better.

There are, however, a couple of places left on the 28th June if anyone is interested.

I will be running another course in July, and one in early August, but I’ve still got to confirm the definite dates.

These are:

Sunday 10th May 2009 – Park Bridge, Oldham, Lancs – 12 places in total

Sunday 21st June 2009 – Park Bridge, Oldham, Lancs – 12 places in total

Sunday 28th June 2009 – Park Bridge, Oldham, Lancs – 12 places in total

You can book these course through this web site, by clicking on the Book A Course link at the top of the site and choosing the date you want to book.

If you have any questions about the course, just let me know, but you’ll find lots of information about it here.

You can find out all about the courses here and you can book them online here.

Spaces are limited to 10 on each course.

I’m looking forward to running lots of these courses this year as well as intermediate level courses too later in the year too.

I have created a set on Flickr for any shots of budding photographers I take during the courses, so hopefully the set will continue to grow as I run more courses.

You can see from the pictures that the area we go to is great for photography, and that unfortunately rain puts a bit of damper on it (literally), but so far I’ve had no complaints.

I have one more course this year, this weekend (23/11/2008, places are still available) and will get them going again in the new year. I am also going to be arranging a few photography walks where anyone can come along, it’s not a course, just a day out taking pictures. I’ll answer any questions of course, but just getting a day out to practise taking pictures will be a huge benefit to any photographer.

If you are interested in the courses or the possible photography walks then sign up to the newsletter, I will only send you emails with relevent things in them, they won’t be every day or every week, jsut as and when there is information that I think will be useful.

Anyway, take a look at the rest of the pictures here: