Inspiration is all around
Summer is always a great time for learning new things, especially when most of France clocks off for the month of August and getting the smallest thing done is almost impossible. As part of the organisation of the Chamonix Adventure Film Festival, I was lucky enough to take part in a new venture run just before this year’s festival – an adventure photography course, run by Corey Rich and Scott Willson. Ten enthusiastic students with wildly different levels of knowledge and experience spent three days enjoying a mixture of classroom sessions and shooting in the field. A night in the Bonatti refuge on the Italian side of Mont Blanc gave us the setting for running and hiking shots, and such tricks of the trade as how to shoot at night and in poorly lit interiors. Together with mountain bike and climbing shoots, we were left with heads crammed full of new information and a selection of surprisingly (for me) good shots. Look out for info on next year’s course – you’ll find me wandering the hills, camera in hand, badgering people to be in my shots on my time off!
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