Tim Parkin - Landscape Photographer

On the very last day of our large format course we went over to Budle Bay to take a look at the sand patterns (and possibly take the odd photo). While Joe and a few others went over to the see pools created as the tide went out, myself and Paul Arthur went up into the dunes to try to capture some of the shifting sands. The main pictures are of an old peat layer that is gradually being revealed by the erosion. I went back to this location a few months later and the whole structure of the area had changed. That evening also saw a wonderful sunset – that I spent taking stupid pictures of the water. However I did get a nice picture of the sand patterns which were unlike any I had seen before (it reminded me of snake skin).

I really enjoyed the large format course and it felt like learning from friends rather than being tutored. I highly recommend the Light and Land large format courses, both Joe and David have an enormous amount of experience and you couldn’t have a better starting point for a journey into large format than this.

Out of interest, I’d be interested in knowing which of the pictures in the sidebar you think I should include in my main gallery? I’ll say which I prefer after I’ve got one or two comments..

Thanks for reading and sorry for the slow posting – I’m getting back into regular swing of things now and promise to post once a week from now on.