Photography Courses Devon

Photography Courses Devon
Craig Howarth fine art photographer who is now based in the idyllic coastline of Devon. He is to host one of his [ Easy on the Pocket workshops ] at Lupton House, Brixham Road, Churston Ferrers  throughout Autumn this year.

The workshops are entitled Inspired by the Sea. Craig will show photographers with varying degrees of experience how to:

* Create stunning long exposures
* Acquire fine inspiration sources
* Get the most out of the camera
* Organise post capture workflow
* Develop the image to gain results
* Understand the print production processes
* Market as a photographer

SPACES LIMITED TO JUST 20
£30 per person
BOOK NOW 01803 845800
www.discoverlupton.com

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

Craig@naturalscene.co.uk 

+44 (0)7540 884601

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Morzine in Winter

Fine Art Landscape Photographer Craig Howarth's control centre!!!

Morzine in Winter

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

It is very strange editing & finalising snow images from my last trip to the French Alps ( Morzine ) when here in Devon we are having our summer!!! Apparently 21 degrees at present, which is mind boggling after the July and August we had. Here I am, remembering avalanches and sub zeros temperatures that even tested my powerful reserve to the cold on this trip.

In between editing I have read a great article by Monty Halls ( http://www.montyhalls.co.uk/ ) about the Great Barrier Reef in one of the most inspiring magazines on sale Wanderlust...

What more could you ask for on a sunny Friday afternoon...

Thanks for reading, my winter images will be available sometime next month, in the meantime to view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

Craig@naturalscene.co.uk 

+44 (0) 7540 884601

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Blackpool Sands Dartmouth

Blackpool Sands Dartmouth by Dartmouth Fine Art Landscape Photographer

Blackpool Sands

Image Title: Scatters

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This image taken on Blackpool Sands in Dartmouth, on a day where the sea was showing us just how powerful it can be.

The beach was littered with sea debris, the order of which I found fascinating. The debris was strewn out over the beach but as I looked closer there was a strong sense of order with the way it had been placed. Clearly displaying to me that even in apparent disorder of the storm nature had still placed the items beautifully and orderly.

The stark contrast of a blue sky with such rough seas attracted me to this particular shot.

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

Craig@naturalscene.co.uk 

+44 (0)7540 884601

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

White Sails Gallery Dartmouth

New Sizes Available of My Fine Art Landscape Photography at White Sails Gallery Dartmouth

Big news from tomorrow White Sails Gallery Dartmouth will be offering my latest collection of limited edition images "The Blue" in three different sizes:-

Small - £195
Medium - £295
Large - £395

Print only option also available. Please call in and see them, gallery open 7 days a week...

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

Also on display at Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Slapton Sands Torcross Storms

Slapton Sands Torcross Storms - 

by Dartmouth Artist & Photographer Craig Howarth

Slapton Sands Torcross Storms

Image Title: The Surf 2

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This is the type of weather I'm so excited to see again hopefully this autumn. Stormy, dramatic and fast moving skies coupled with stunning rough seas. These are the conditions that really gets your heart pumping as you hear the waves crashing against the the tiny pebbles along the Slapton Sands beach.

I have spent most of this weekend finding new locations around Dartmouth, Castle Cove and then up to Little Dartmouth for my new collection of images. With the correct weather conditions,  and the official start to Autumn on 21st September I really can't wait to start shooting my new planned images!!! With a full moon on the 29th I think this will be the perfect time...

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

Also on display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Slapton Sands Torcross Dartmouth

Slapton Sands, The One by Dartmouth Artist & Photographer Craig Howarth

Slapton Sands Torcross Dartmouth

Image Title: The One

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This image was taken in early summer very early in the morning, the sun had hardly risen. We had experienced a very high tide that morning hence everything was still glistening from when the wash had been covering the rocks earlier. With the sun literally just appearing over the horizon, it highlighted the details and edges of the rocks just the way I had envisioned, truly beautiful.

The air was so clear and the beach and surf so still, really was one of those meditative experiences just perfect hence the title "The One".

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Compass Cove Dartmouth

Compass Cove Dartmouth by Dartmouth Artist & Photographer

Compass Cove Dartmouth 

Image Title: Leading

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This image is part of my new collection "The Blue".

This image was a difficult image to capture, one I have tried to get many times. I wanted the rocks to be wet from the surf ( not rain ) but the waves gentle enough that they don't move the pebbles. This was a late spring evening and the perfect time, the tide was retreating but still giving a couple of powerful waves that glazed my rock perfectly. The late setting sun perfectly highlighting the shapes of the rocks to create this stunning image "Leading".

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Blackpool Sands Dartmouth - Inspired by the Sea

Blackpool Sands Dartmouth, 

by Dartmouth Fine Art Landscape Photographer

Blackpool Sands Dartmouth

Image Title: Passage

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This image was taken in very rough weather, the wind was high the waves were crashing against and over the headland rocks. What is normally a stream meeting the sea was a fast flowing, deep and powerful river.

As I was setting up the camera on the tripod the pebble bank on which I was standing was falling away, I knelt gently while I got the 45 second exposure shot. Just after a massive shelf of pebbles gave way, which leaves me feeling pretty lucky I got this fantastic shot, even with the moon in the sky!

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Slapton Sands Torcross Dartmouth - Inspired by the sea

Slapton Sands Torcross, by Dartmouth Fine Art Landscape Photographer

Slapton Sands Torcross 

Image Title: The Wash

Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This image is part of my new collection "The Blue". After days of high winds and atrocious weather there was a break. Cloud formations were dramatic and I was drawn to Slapton Sands in Torcross, where the combination of the clouds and the sea's turbulent presence was breathtaking to say the least...

I setup to take a number of different shots settling on this one "The Wash" as being one of my most favourite images. As you can imagine the wave didn't stop coming towards me after it had painted beauty in my camera frame, it absolutely soaked me. Was all worth it though...

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

www.naturalscene.co.uk

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Compass Cove Dartmouth - Inspired by the sea

Compass Cove Dartmouth, by Dartmouth Fine Art Landscape Photographer

Compass Cove Dartmouth
Image Title: Guided
Fine Art Landscape Photographer: Craig Howarth

This image is part of my new collection "The Blue".

I captured this image after visiting  Compass Cove many times through the winter. The image was shot in early spring on an evening I didn't expect to be in the water so didn't have my wet weather footwear on. I didn't let that stop me and got my boots off and stood in the freezing early spring water!

I was not going to let this image get away from me, the evening light, the sheen of the rocks the depth of the shadows was truly breath taking. These are the emotions I still get when I look at this image even now.

To view more of my Fine Art landscape photography please visit:

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com
www.naturalscene.co.uk

On display at White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm - Dartmouth.

Pizza kingsbridge - Stokeley Kitchen / Farm

Remember Stokeley Kitchen / Farm are serving the delicious stone baked pizzas tonight... You will also get a chance to take in my new images of Dartmouth, Slapton, Torcross and Blackpool Sands...

Stokeley Kitchen



To see images please visit...
www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

Inspired by the Sea, Dartmouth

Inspired by the Sea, Dartmouth

My postcards have arrived and will be distrubuted around my favourite deli's and coffee shops around, Darmouth, Kingsbridge and Salcombe later.

Images featured are taken are at:
Blackpool sands, Dartmouth
Castle Cove, Dartmouth
Slapton Sands, Torcross, Devon

To see the full range of images from the latest collection - "The Blue" please visit www.inspired-by-the-sea.com or my work is on display at:-

White Sails Gallery & Stokeley Farm / Kitchen

Inspired by the Sea - Featured in By The Dart magazine

Inspired by the Sea
The latest project by Craig Howarth has been featured in the ByTheDart Magazine.

You can see the magazine online:
Current Issue
Facebook

To view Craig's work please visit Stokeley Farm or White Sails Gallery in Devon, UK. Thanks for visiting...

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

Stokeley Kitchen & Farm Welcome Inspired By The Sea Project

Stokeley Kitchen & Farm Welcome Inspired By The Sea Project

Craig Howarth black white photographer has recently installed his new project www.inspired-by-the-sea.com at Stokeley which in our opinion is one of the tastiest Pizza restaurants in the area.

Stokeley Kitchen & Farm is situated aprox 0.5km from the stunning beach Slapton sands where most of the new images were taken.

More info on Stokeley Click here

www.inspired-by-the-sea.com
mail@whitesailsgallery.com

Waiting for Sunrise

Waiting for the Sunrise at Castle Cove Dartmouth

Waiting for the Sunrise
Alarm goes of at 4:00am, you leave the house in the dark and head off to your location to see if today will be the sunrise, that will set apart from all the others you have seen. Recently, when I was endeavouring to capture one such sunrises on the Devon coast in Dartmouth, the Weather forecast the night before was perfect a couple of light clouds that usually add to the dramatic feel of most of my shots.

I arrive at my location at 4:45 and then start waiting for the sunrise, hoping everything will fall into place, exposure set on what I estimate it will be I relax and wait. As all Landscape photographers will know you are not always greeted with that outstanding display of nature you anticipated but one completely different. This was one of those occasions, what I thought would be a dramatic and inspiring sunrise was in fact a very stormy foreboding scene that excited me to capture the emotion this venue stirred in me. Always rewarding even waiting for the sunrise that didn’t unfold still enabled me to capture such a stunning displays of the force of nature.

Please visit my latest project at - 
www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

Sugary Mist - Sugary Cove

I have often been asked what draws me out of the normal surroundings and into the track less beaten, I put it down to instinct and simply being inspired by nature. Letting nature lead me to where the photograph should take place.

Often on my travels through Devon I will have a planned shot list on leaving the house, but soon realise that where I’m drawn to will be far more dramatic and impactful once out on location. The instinct of reading the correct light, cloud formations and where to setup the camera comes from spending as much time as possible interacting with these environments.

Sugary Mist - Sugary Cove - Dartmouth is one such shot, not the one I had in min don leaving but this shot blew me away when I saw it in camera.


Please visit my latest project at -
www.inspired-by-the-sea.com

Black and white California

Black and white California, Image from San Francisco 

Black and white California
California for me holds a strong sense of inspiration and belonging every time I have visited there. It could be the light or it could be people but I always have been very inspired by the place. From the street markets of Venice beach, L.A. to the stunning vistas in Yosemite National Park North California, all of it is just truly amazing.

Even though the colours of the sunsets and sunrises are stunning in California I always prefer shooting Black and White images of California. My black and white California images always have stunning whites and rich grey tones through-out, California has to be one of my most favourite places to be shooting images...

To see more of my work please visit:
www.naturalscene.co.uk
www.facebook.com/thenaturalscene

Just Discovered Lightroom, Why Have I been Using Aperture | Landscape Photography Blog

Just Discovered Lightroom, Why Have I been Using Aperture | Landscape Photography Blog

China beach pictures

China beach pictures, on Highway 50 California

China beach pictures
On my last trip to San Francisco we travelled down from Lake Tahoe to head to our first stop China Beach to try to get a sunset shot. We were totally amazed by the sites we saw traveling down Highway 50. This picture of an old Californian truck took my attention so much so by the time we arrived at China beach we had missed the sunset, but seeing China Beach and hearing the waves crash against the rocks and seeing the Golden Gate Bridge glow in the background was all worth it. Moments like this make me feel so lucky to be blessed to be able to travel like this...

To see more China Beach Pictures please click here and also here... Thanks for reading...

Golden Gate Bridge Black and White

Golden Gate Bridge Black and White, San Francisco, from China Beach

Golden Gate Bridge Black and White
The celebration weekend is here, I want to wish the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco a very happy 75th Birthday. To celebrate I wanted to share one of my favourite images of the Golden gate Bridge, obviously for me it has to be Black and white. This image shows the dramatic weather that can occur on China Beach in San Francisco, big waves, stormy skies and almost unreal feel to the Golden Gate Bridge in Black and White, featured in the background.

To see more of my work and China Beach pictures please click here.

There are many events taking place this weekend to mark this great celebration, please check out this Facebook page for more info
http://www.facebook.com/onlyinSF

Thanks for reading my blog and for those of you luckily enough to be in San Francisco I hope you have an awesome weekend.

Golden Gate Bridge Ansel Adams

Taken While Traveling from San Francisco to Los Angeles,
Title: Black and white california 

Golden Gate Bridge Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams as many of you who read my blog will know has been a great inspiration to my work and one of the reasons for my fascination with California and San Francisco. His image taken in 1953 of the golden Gate bridge from Baker Beach which is just around the corner from my favourite beach “China Beach” is a stunning photograph.

The weather on this occasion looks like a much calmer day than when I visited the similar spot.

To Ansel Adams image please visit:
http://www.anseladams.org/the-golden-gate-bridge-from-baker-beach--a084.html

To see more of my fine art landscape photography please visit: http://www.facebook.com/thenaturalscene

China Beach Pictures

China beach pictures, San Francisco

China Beach Pictures

I have many China Beach pictures from my visits to San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge. But often its the old californian cars that catch my attention, this Karmann Ghia was one of these occasions. A beautiful image not far from China beach, that I found on one of many walks of this fantastic Californian City...

The weather was perfect glorious sunshine and a deep blue sky, the type of deep colour that always migrates well into black and white.

To see more of my fine art landscape and black and white photography please visit:

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Thanks for read this...

San Francisco China Beach

San Francisco China Beach, By Craig Howarth

San Francisco China Beach, this is the beach I have visited every time I have been to San Francisco. China Beach is steeped in history and is situated in between Baker Beach and Lands End. China Beach gains its name from Chinese Fishermen who used to camp at this beach. 

I always feel very spiritual when I have visited China Beach, the power of the waves, the dramatic back drop of San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge and the packs of surfers heading out into the Ocean... Stunning truly stunning...

To see more of my Fine Art Landscape Photography please visit:

www.naturalscene.co.uk
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Thanks for visiting my blog...

Fine Art Landscape Photographer & black and white California images

Fine Art Landscape Photographer - Ansel Adams LandscapeGreat clip to watch on a Sunday afternoon, inspiring people...

The Ansel Adams landscape is such a stunning place to photograph, hoping to get to California later this year to shoot more black and white California images.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZND3eczqoIA
   

San Francisco images & the Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco images, City Lights Bookstore

San Francisco images
To spread the word about the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge being 75 years old, I will be uploading and writing about some of my old San Francisco images this week. The first San Fran image is of my favourite bookshop in the world - “City Lights Bookstore” based not far from the Golden Gate Bridge. The bookstore was made famous by many ‘Beatniks‘ of that generation, and still today many people come from around the world to browse, read, and just soak in the ambiance of alternative culture's only "Literary Landmark." And obviously while there you can’t help but visit the Vesuvio Cafe, where Jack Kerouac spent many an evening... Two places that needs to be on your visit lists along with the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge...

To see more of my work please visit:
www.naturalscene.co.uk or www.facebook.com/thenaturalscene

Vesuvio Cafe Bar:
http://www.vesuvio.com/

City Lights Bookstore
http://www.citylights.com