Last weekend was a bit special. On Friday I collected Adam Gibbs from Gatwick and on Saturday we journeyed north to the Lake District to the Northern Photography Show. I got to see Tom Heaton and spent an evening with Simon Baxter and even met the famous Meg. Adam and I also spent an evening photographing at Lodore Falls with Paul Thomson, a local photographer and YouTuber.
Adam and I concentrated on the Borrowdale area of the Lakes, the weather was (untypically for Cumbria) too glorious but I think he had a good time. He managed to make a v-log and you can see the results by clicking on the link.
Having spent some quality time with an experienced and talented photographer, there are two things I find worthy of comment. Firstly, is how he struggles like the rest of us to find an image, but secondly how he sees a composition in all the clutter of a landscape. It was an object lesson to me in how hard you have to work to get good images and how training your eye to ‘see’ a composition is such a vital skill.
I hope to meet up with Adam again in the future because he was excellent company but in the meantime there are skills to practice and things to reflect upon.