Friday 21st February - Sunday 23rd February, 2025.

Once you have paid the initial 20% deposit, you can then pay the remaining balance in monthly instalments.

Please get in touch with us to discuss your tailored payment plan.

Deposit of £197.00 to secure your place then 10 x monthly payments of £78.80.

Final payment due by 27th December, 2024.

This is excellent news for us! These weather conditions create a fantastic opportunity for some incredibly dramatic and epic landscape photography! The rugged mountains and frozen landscapes offer us the perfect opportunity to capture Snowdonia and its surroundings in all it’s winter beauty. We will have the option to photograph at a number of different locations from snowy mountains, to panoramic winter scenes to wintry streams and lakes. Although we plan an itinerary for you, once we have our group booked, we are very flexible and adaptable with the itinerary. This photography weekend is about you and your photography learning experience, so we can adapt to suit the groups best interests.

Helen is a photographer and mountain guide. She has been published in magazines such as 'The Great Outdoors' and 'Outdoor Photography' on many occasions, She has been shortlisted numerous times in 'Landscape Photographer of the Year' and 'Outdoor Photographer of the Year' and her work has been printed in the accompanying books.

Born and brought up in Southern Snowdonia, Helen Iles is a qualified Mountain Leader  and active member of the local South Snowdonia Mountain Rescue Team. She has been a member of Barmouth RNLI crew for over 23 years. You may recognise her from the recent BBC Documentary series SOS Extreme Rescues.

Explore the very best winter photography locations across Snowdonia National Park.

Learn from leading UK photographer and mountain guide Helen Iles.

Learn composition skills, working with different winter light conditions, different techniques and terminology, winter sunrise & sunset photography, astrophotography, mountain photography.

We will be staying in a beautiful high-spec and private cottage nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, with incredible facilities.

Each person will have their own, private room within the property. Rooms will be allocated on a booking order basis.

More details to follow shortly.

We will travel around all the locations in a comfortable minibus.

Pickup & return transfer to Bangor Train station if required.

We have fantastic cooking facilities available at the property / accommodation. Please bring your own food for cooking meals and for making lunches.

We will provide essentials for the stay i.e. milk, tea, coffee etc.

Experiment using equipment, such as filters & tripods from our photography partners.

Discounts from our corporate and photography partners.

Group size of just 4 people plus workshop leaders.

Transport to North Wales. Collection from Bangor train station can be arranged in advance if travelling by train.

Food for cooking. ie. breakfast, packed lunch and dinner.

Personal travel insurance.

Equipment insurance.

Alcoholic drinks. We will supply tea and coffee throughout the weekend.

**Please ensure that you have the appropriate travel insurance in place at time of booking in order to cover yourselves in the hopefully unlikely circumstance that you find yourself unable to attend the workshop.

Camera Equipment:

DSLR or Mirrorless camera system ideally with a choice of lenses. We suggest at least a 24-70mm or equivalent and if you have one a 16-35mm and/or 70-200mm.

A tripod.

Filters if you have them.

Fully charged camera batteries and plenty of SD cards.

Other accessories such as: Shutter release cable for your camera, rain cover.

A decent camera/hiking rucksack is recommended.

Please get in touch prior to booking to discuss your equipment if you are unsure. We can always try to help you out with some of the photography equipment should you need it.

Outdoor Clothing:

Waterproof jacket, waterproof trousers, fleece, walking tops, walking boots, flask, water bottle, head torch, map, snacks.

Please bring appropriate clothing for long hours spent outdoors in springtime conditions.

Please get in touch prior to booking to discuss if unsure.

We will send out a full detailed kit list nearer the time.

Food for meals:

Please bring food for cooking your meals at the accommodation. You will need to provide your own breakfast, packed lunches and dinner foods.

There will be plenty of time in the evening to cook lovely meals, after we get back from our sunset photography sessions.

We have a number of locations that we can visit within Snowdonia National Park and the surrounding areas. We will discuss as a group on the first day where you would like to visit and where would be best for your photography learning and experience. Our decision might also be based on the weather conditions expected over the weekend.

Possible locations include: Cwm Idwal, Tryfan, The Glyders, Pen yr Ole Wen, Betws-y-Coed, Dinorwic & Anglesey Barracks, Menai Bridge and Anglesey, Conwy and the Carneddau.

NB: We won’t be climbing these mountains but we will be working on rough terrain, in winter and so a decent level of fitness is recommended along with some hill-walking/mountain walking experience, ideally in wintery conditions.

Arrive at 12pm.

2pm - Welcome meeting. We will discuss the photography weekend plans including location options.

4pm - We will head out for a gentle walk and introductory photography session. We will get to know everyone’s photography styles and experience levels during this session.

6pm - Return to accommodation and dinner.

Sunrise photography session - (Early start required)

9am - Return to accommodation for breakfast.

10am - Location 1

1pm - Lunch spot

3pm - Location 2. Sunset & blue hour photography

6pm - Return to accommodation and dinner.

8am - Breakfast

9am - Location 3

1pm - Finish and head home.

Whilst some prior photography experience is always good, this photography workshop is suitable for everyone, no matter your photography experience level.

We try to design our photography workshops to be suitable for beginner photography through to intermediate level photography and even beyond.

You can secure your place on this photography workshop with just a 20% deposit (£197.00).

The balance payment is due 8 weeks prior to the workshop start date.

An email will be sent out 2 weeks prior to this reminding you of the balance payment date.

Yes, you can pay in instalments.

If paying in instalments, the final payment needs to be made 6 weeks prior to departure.

A tailored payment plan can also be arranged.

The majority of our photography workshops and tours require a good, general level of fitness. However, we do try to design all itineraries so that they are suitable for as many people as possible.

There will be some locations that require on average a 30 minute walk to get into the location.

As this tour is taking place in winter, you will need to be fit and comfortable enough to spend time outdoors, in wintry conditions.

We will ask you to confirm at the time of booking that you have the appropriate level of fitness to take part. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us to discuss.

Yes, we are! We have financial protection in place through an ABTA approved provider.

In fact, we are one of the only providers of photography tours and workshops here in the UK that financially protects their customers in line with the Package Travel Regulations 2018.