August 3rd saw us at the beach with the Bryan family, one of our old clients. It was great to see them again after a few years. They hadn't changed a bit! We spent an hour or so on the beach and had some great fun. Thanks to everyone for the shoot and for the weather for coming up trumps!

We used a mixture of 70-200mm, 50mm 1.2 lenses with daylight and Elinchrom Quadra lights with a 70cm softbox.

Here are a few images from the day and we look forward to you seeing the rest.

Well summer is upon us and it's not long to go until our first ever overnight course, shooting kids & teen fashion in the woods. We only have two places left on this course. If you want to learn all the tips and tricks of the trade and master the flash then this is the course for you.

Here are the courses that we have coming up at BHP studios. Including Kids & Teens on the Beach, Wedding Portfolio & Funky Flash. Courses are limited to 8 ( apart from the overnight course where it is 10)

Call Kristie at the studio on 01706 340792 for a chat, click on the images below to download more info or click on BOOK HERE to book your place on line.

Make sure you pick the best this year when looking to improve your skills, Brett Harkness Photography.

MID -SUMMER NIGHTS JUNE 14TH/15TH - OVERNIGHT  ( ONLY 1 PLACE LEFT!! )

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FUNKY FLASH - JUNE 21ST / 1 DAY/  ( JUST RELEASED )

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JULY 2nd / 1 DAY /  LIFESTYLE - KIDS & TEENS ON THE BEACH  ( 6 PLACES LEFT )

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AUGUST 16th - 1DAY / WEDDING PORTFOLIO COURSE  (JUST RELEASED)

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Friday saw a full studio here at Brett Harkness Photography for our " Wedding Portfolio" course. Thank you to all who made it down for the day course. After an hour or so in the studio looking at some imagery and going through the wedding "method". We headed off to a local church , not only giving everyone a great chance to get some cool shots but also talking about method, settings & composition on the way!

Returing to the studio for lunch we then headed off to Manchester with our Groom & two brides! For some cool, funky location shooting. Here are a few images from the day. If you have any questions about the course you attended or any other BHP training courses please EMAIL the studio or call Kristie on 01706 340792.To read more about our new courses please CLICK HERE.

This week saw us release our first overnight training course here at Brett Harkness Photography. We are very excited to release this course and have put a lot of effort into organsing it. On the day it was released, Tuesday, we booked half of the 10 places, which is great. If you would like to go on this superb course then please EMAIL the studio now or call Kristie on 01706 340792 to reserve your place.

Please click on the PDF below to download it and spend a few mins reading all about the course and the wonderful, exciting experience it will be!

Well, next tuesday we have been lucky enugh to be invited to a private drinks reception and rare interview/discussion with one of my all time favourite photographers, Don McCullin. I wrote about Don and his work for my dissertation at Nottingham Trent Uni back in 1995! I bumped into Don at a riot in London in 1993 and have loved his work every since.

This coming meeting has inspired me to post some of my own travel work from the past couple of years as a thank you for the inspiration that Don McCullin has given me over the years. Feel free to look though if you have 5 mins and leave a comment or a message if you have time.

This set are from the Il Palio horserace in Sienna/Italy.A fantastic race where the horses race around the town square, it is over in under 2 mins so you have to be quick!

Here are some from a trip to Cuba, it is an amazing place just to wander the streets and take pictures.We stayed in a monastary and went out on the streets early at around 5.30am when the light was best.

Inspired by the visits to India from Don McCullin I first went to India during University back in 1994. I have since been back 4 times on different trips from 10 days-3 months. An amazing place that will forever remain in my heart & soul. You will see different images from different trips, using cameras from Leicas with film and Canone EOS 1ds mark III cameras which I now use. Regardless of the medium used I think the impact and the memories remain the same.

Here are some images from different trips:

Here are some images from a trip to Africa. We lived in a village outside of Niarobi for a couple of weeks. An amazing experience. We washed in the rivers with the locals and when we came to leave the villagers had clubbed together and bought us a crate of Delmonte pineapple chunks, a months wage but considered a great parting gift.

Here are a few images from different events that I have photographed. This year I have some more personal projects on the go. Watch this space!!