Shetland Photography Holidays

Dates 2011

4th-11th June 2011
Places Available

25 June-2 July 2011
NOW FULL

Group Size Maximum of 6 Photographers.

Cost

£1249.00
Deposit £249.00
Cost Includes Transport within Shetland Accommodation, food and drink.
Accomodation
Cost Excludes Alcohol and personal effects.

Fitness Level

Level 4

Some Walks up too 4-5 miles, but taken slowly over the whole day and not every day , some steep inclines.

Images in Shetland - Tour Overview

WHAT WE DO,WHERE WE GO,WHATS COVERED

Shetland Workshop Image

7 day residential Photography tour of Shetland

One to one tuition and guidance from award winning photographer Lee Mott LBIPP,LMPA,CrGWP Get up-close and personal with a breathtaking variety of subjects

Covering a large portion of mainland Shetland & the major islands Based at our very own Orca Country Inn

Maximum of 6 photographers Birds Sea Mammals Landscapes Wildflowers

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Shetland ImagePhotograph

  • 1 Million Seabirds
  • Puffins within a few feet of your lens
  • Arctic and Great Skua as they hunt the seabird colonies, just a stones throw from the cliffs.
  • Black Guillemots , as they interact in there small colonies, oblivious to our presents.
  • Arctic Terns in the thousands.
  • Gannet Red Necked Phalarope, sometimes so close your lens will not focus , as they feed on the loch edge
  • The endemic Shetland Wren ,confiding and ever entertaining.
  • Red Throated Diver, as they fly to and from there breeding locks.
  • Killer Whales ,the chance to encounter these magnificent creatures in the wild.
  • Seals, abundant and ever present in the Shetland Landscape
  • Storm Petrol
  • Endemic plants , like Edmonstones Chickweed , found only one island in Shetland and now where else on earth.
  • Plus much , much more. A full list of species can be found on the specific trip pages.

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Shetland ImageVISIT

  • Mousa Broch , 2000 year old , pictish ,Iron age Fort. tanding 40ft Tall
  • Sumbrugh Head RSPB reserve.
  • Fetlar, nicknamed the garden of Shetland. the small island ,famed by its Red Necked Phalaropes
  • Stunning landscape of south mainland
  • Mousa RSPB reserve, private boat charter, takes us twice to this very special island
  • Noss, one of the wonders of the world, is the description given by many, to the seabird covered cliffs of this small island.
  • Hermaness, and Muckle Flugga , the most northerly point in the UK, another national nature reserve and home too thousands of seabirds.

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