Never work with children or animals!

Just realised - this is my 600th blip!

Like this time last year, I had agreed again to run a 2-hour workshop with a group of 11 - 14 year olds on a christian camp. I started with a 15 minute show of some landscapes and portraits in an attempt to give them some help on composing pictures; looked over their cameras, and turned the resolution on most of them to high quality (amazing how many were set on the lowest quality!) and cleaned all their lenses. We then took a walk around Maulds Meaburn where there were a good range of subjects - landscapes, a river, sheep (that's the animals in the title), waterfalls etc. Many of the kids batteries only seemed to last about half an hour, so they resorted to paddling in the river, and having a play on the village swings.

For those with life still in their cameras, I showed them how to pan on slow shutter speeds, using the swings, although on this one I did use a touch of fill in flash. The most difficult thing here was to pan in the arc the swing was travelling, rather than just in a straight line!