Photography Experience Venues

Venues for our Standardised Group Photography Workshops and Photo Days
Colchester Zoological Society

Colchester Zoo is one of Europe’s finest zoos. It is located (as the name suggests) in Colchester, Essex on 60 acres of parkland around lakes. With over 260 animal species, including Big Cats like Amur leopards and tigers, the zoo offers a wide variety of animal subjects for our photography workshops and customised photography courses. The management and staff of the zoo work constantly to develop the enclosures and zoo facilities further to benefit the animals and the visitors at the same time.

As all our venues, Colchester Zoo is actively involved in wildlife conservation. The zoo is part of the European Endangered Species Breeding Programme (EEP), runs its own wildlife habitat rehabilitation programme in South Africa and supports through its charity trust ‘Action For The Wild’ many other wildlife conservation projects in the wild.

Our photography workshops here include a 30-minutes online tuition session prior to the workshop itself
(enabling us to taailor the tuition to each participant individually) a guided tour with practical exercises along the route around the Big Cats, African Wildlife and/or any other wildlife species, participants would like to photograph. Although, we don’t have special access to any of the animal enclosures, the wildlife keepers support our photography workshops by placing the food in good positions or doing something special with the animals during their scheduled encounters.

For more information on our photography workshops at Colchester Zoo please follow this Photography Workshops at Colchester Zoo link.



Bradgate Park

Bradgate Park is a deer and country park in Leicestershire that is well known for its red and fallow deer herds. The park is home to around 450 deer (2/3 of these are fallow deer and 1/3 red deer). The deer itself offers our customer great photography opportunities, but the options for photography go far beyond these beautiful animals and their seasonal actions.

This venue provides us with all aspects of nature photography and is therefore a great option for our Deer Rut Photography workshops. We schedule our photography experiences at Bradgate Park in October to enable our customers to capture the action between the red deer stags and fallow deer bucks. Our groups are limited to a maximum of 3 participants to enable everyone to get good positions to photograph the deer, other wildlife and the landscape at Bradgate Park.

For more information on our photography courses at Bradgate Park please follow this Photography Wolshops at Bradgate Park link.



Norfolk

Norfolk is well known for having two of the largest grey seal colonies in England. We are offering photography workshops for adults and also one for teenagers (aged 12-16 years) in the Broads National Park during the grey seal pupping season.

We usually schedule at least one Seal Photography in Norfolk and one Seal Photography for Teenagers workshop each in December and in January each year. Additional dates will be added, if and when spaces are filled.

Our participants will be guided through the dunes along the public paths and viewing areas to get good photo opportunities, and will have access to one-to-one advice on camera settings or other photography aspects throughout the workshop. Like with all out photography experiences, participants will have the option to take a 30-minutes online photography tuition session prior to the workshop.

For more information on our Seal Photography Workshops in Norfolk, please click on the highlighted term.