Isle of Skye Landscape Photography Workshop in Scotland

Image © Bruce Percy

Isle of Skye
Scottish Highlands
5 day scottish photographic workshop

Dates	Cost
November 8th-13th, 2010 Limited spaces	£1250* Per Person
December 3rd-8th, 2010 SOLD OUT	£1250* Per Person

* Special discount available for non participating partners.
Please contact us: info@lightonscotland.com for more information.

Includes:
Exclusive small group setting
Exclusive use of Hotel
5 Nights Bed, Breakfast & Evening Dinner
Sole room occupancy - no single suppliment
Transportation between shooting locations
One to One Guidance & Group Guidance
Photoshop 'digital darkroom' techniques
Extensive notes
Packed Lunch

Image © Bruce Percy

Image © Bruce Percy

Getting to the Workshop

Skye is situated in the far north west of Scotland. Due to the nature of the remoteness of parts of the North West of Scotland, transportation links are sparse.

Pickup from Inverness Airport Available

I can pick you up at Inverness Airport on the day the trip commences. Please arrive at Inverness Airport no later than 2pm on the day the trip commences, as it is a 3 and a half hour drive to our destination on Skye.

Returning from the workshop to the Airport

Please be aware we will leave the hotel no later than 10am and arrive in Inverness at approximately 2pm. Please arrange your connections to coincide with this arrival time.

Driving from Glasgow, Edinburgh or Inverness

Another alternative is to coincide your Skye workshop with a tour around the north west of Scotland. There is much to see and you could easily spend an additional week or two here. If this is an option, then I would recommend hiring a car and ariving at Inverness Airport. Driving times from Glasgow and Edinburgh are very long - somewhere between 5 and 7 hours. The landscape is mountainous, with lots of single track roads, so traveling takes a lot longer than you may anticipate.

Trip Details

Start/Finish: The course starts at 6pm on Friday and finishes at 9am on Wednesday
Deposit: £200 per person
Group size: Maximum 4 photographers
Fitness level: There are some steep treks to some of the view points at the Storr and Quiraing, so you should be used to trekking up hill with a packpack.
Equipment needed: Film or Digital SLR camera; tripod; neutral density graduated filters, packpack and hiking boots
Where we stay: Glen View Hotel, Culnacnoc by Staffin, Skye

This trip has been set up for a very small exclusive number of photographers (4). We will have sole use of the hotel for our duration, making for a very comfortable and concentrated stay.

Arrival & Introduction
6.00pm
We will meet at the Glen View hotel in the small village of Culnacnock (near Staffin) where I will introduce myself and cover what we will be doing over the week.

7:00 - 8:00pm
Dinner

8:00 - 9:00pm
I will present a talk on my approach to landscape photography.

Daily Schedule

6:30 - 7:30am
Breakfast

8:00 - 11:00am
On location for sunrise. The sun rises very late in December (around 8:45), but it is the hour before and after that can often yield some very surprising images.

11:00 - 4:00pm
With the winter sun being so low in the sky for the entire day, we will take advantage of this by exploring some of the surrounding landscapes of Skye.

11:00 - 4:00pm
On location for sunset.

4:00 - 7:00pm
Photo critique and digital editing tutorials back at the hotel.

7:00 - 9:00pm
Dinner

9:00pm onwards
Your own free time to chil out and relax.