The Journal

Free teaching from the barn — the same habits and explanations we use on workshop days, written down.

Camera basics

Getting off Auto: the exposure triangle, explained on a farm gate

Aperture, shutter speed and ISO — what they actually do, and the barn-door analogy we use with every beginner group.

Fieldcraft

The five working habits we drill on Composition in the Field days — no gear required, and all of them practiseable within ten minutes of our gate.

Local knowledge

Living between the coast and the fells, we get a light show most landscapes chasers drive past. Here is when to look up, and what to do with it.