LWimages Autumn Photography Wokshops - shoot with Dave Macleod

Probably one of the best things about my photography career is the opportunity to spend time with so many extremely talented people... From a photographer's point of view, working with some of the best athletes in the world guarantees not only an exciting and successful photo-shoot but also can be a big source of inspiration.

Image - Richard Eniticknap 

Image - Richard Enticknap 

It was winter 2005 when I got a chance to shoot some images with Dave Macleod for the first time. My photography knowledge back then was seriously limited but I remember how excited I was to snap away while Dave was making his way up the ‘Fast and furious‘ in Birnam Quarry. I think I shot an entire (!) 2 rolls of gritty ISO1600 B&W film... 72 frames doesn't sound exciting enough these days!

Image - Paul Difley

Image - Paul Diffley

6 years later I found myself teaching climbing photography and 6 of my students could feel this buzz. The workshops were meant to be both informative and inspirational and I think they were exactly that. I'm happy that we had so much luck with the weather (it was our main concern for the weekend). It has been great to have all the varied types of lighting conditions, beautiful sunrise light for the fell running shoot and an overcast sky for the rest of the day.

Image - Hamish Rose 

Image - Richard Enticknap 

For the mountain biking shoot the sun was coming and going from behind the clouds giving everyone the opportunity to observe how the light can affect what you're shooting. Even the slight drizzle didn't stop us or Dave from doing the final rock climbing shoot with him on Sunday morning.

‘I spent a great weekend with Lukasz Warzecha and his students on his climbing photography workshop. [...] I was really amazed by the standard of Lukasz' tuition and had a great time jumping onto whatever routes we could find. [...] I reckon if you want to get anywhere in climbing photography, you should get yourself a place on his next workshop. - Dave Macleod

 Image - Hamish Rose

‘Loved the entire course. All the photo-shoots were excellent and the fact that we got to shoot with Dave was unbelievable.' - student
I would like to say thank you to the workshop's sponsors: Mountain Equipment, Redged and ClikElite and to Plas y Brenin for helping us with access to some stunning locations.

Image - Richard Enticknap 

Image - Richard Enticknap

Next workshops - LWimages Winter Photography Workshops - shoot with Andy Turner will take place in Scotland from Friday the 27th till Sunday the 29th of January. It will be a full 3 day course with a winter skills introduction on Fri and a full day of skiing and winter/ice climbing photo opportunities.

To find out more please go to

www.blog.lwimages.co.uk/workshops/