Gaye Gerard knows how to take a good photo. As a professional freelance photographer with Getty Images she's shot Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Miranda Kerr, Nicole Kidman, Beyonce, Megan Gale, Richard Branson and their friends.
Gaye also knows the importance of balancing health, nutrition and wellness to be able to achieve your dreams and goals. The spa devotee understands that image on the outside is about what's on the inside. This is why she has created a Photography Retreat at Absolute Sanctuary Wellness Resort in Koh Samui, from May 4th to 10th 2012. The Retreat is designed to give women an opportunity to connect with each other and be inspired as they share their passions, develop new photography skills, enhance their creativity with a camera and cleanse their body and mind so they leave feeling rejuvenated.
Guests on the six night retreat not only get direct access to Gaye Gerard's professional photographic expertise and guidance but will also feel re-energised with healthy raw food, divine smoothies and fresh juices & vegetarian cuisine.
The delicious cuisine will delight your senses and leave you lingering for more, optional daily yoga, meditation and over 3 hours of heavenly spa massage treatments are also included. You can also experience one of Thailand's best culinary cooking classes, where each person has their own wok station and will prepare and enjoy a Thai meal, a true feast of flavours and colours. There will be a series of inspirational talks by guest speakers and Gaye's Photography workshops and image review sessions.
"When the body is detoxed the mind becomes clearer and creativity is unleashed" explains Gaye. Thailand offers a plethora of photographic opportunities from landscapes to people. You don't have to be an expert photographer; you just have to give it a go."
The Photography Retreat will also feature guest talks on Health and renewing your Creative Inspiration and includes all meals. The cost is $1997 per person twin share.
Book and pay in full before April 4th.
For more information on Gaye Gerard visit www.gayegerardphototours.weebly.com to see Gaye's Portfolio visit www.gayegerard.com contact Gaye Gerard info@gayegerard.com or call
+ 61 410 898 293
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Thursday, 15 March 2012
Sunday, 29 January 2012
National Geographic Traveller - Photography Competition Shortlist Unveiled
National Geographic Traveller (UK) has unveiled the Shortlist for its Travel Photography 2012 Competition, now available to view at: http://photos.natgeotraveller.co.uk As a leader in breathtaking you-are-there photography from across the world, National Geographic Traveller launched its inaugural photo competition last September in association with The Aurora Zone and Tesco.
UK photographers were asked to submit their entries in one of six categories: People, Culture, Nature, Landscape, Adventure and City, for a chance to win a once-in-lifetime trip to see the Northern Lights in Finland with The Aurora Zone and a top of the range camera and kit, courtesy of Tesco.
The judging panel consisted of Carol Enquist, National Geographic’s photo editor; Jonathan Briggs, editor of the British Institute of Professional Photography’s (BIPP) The Photographer magazine; Marina Syrmakezi from The Association of Photographers; and Chris Hudson, National Geographic Traveller’s art editor.
Chris Hudson said: “We had thousands of UK entries in this, the first National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition, and were truly impressed at the incredibly high standard of submissions, whether professional or amateur. Many were exactly what we were looking for: inspirational, high quality images capturing unique moments from all corners of the globe.
He added: “In just one frame, a photo can embody the essence, emotion and atmosphere of a destination and sum up a multitude of feelings in the flash of a shutter.”
To see who made the grade and appears in the short list, visit http://photos.natgeotraveller.co.uk
The winners will be announced in the next issue and supplement on sale 9 February 2012, priced GBP £3.85.
See the 26-page digital sample of the Jan/Feb 12 issue: www.natgeotraveller.co.uk/jan12
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Monday, 1 August 2011
Travel Photographer of the Year Festival to take place
Following from the successful Travel Photographer of the Year exhibition which drew large crowds to the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London in May and June, TPOTY has launched its Festival of Photography & World Travel at the Society - three days of photography and travel events this autumn featuring a fantastic line-up of speakers from the worlds of photography, film and TV, travel and exploration.
To learn ‘how to’ or ‘how did they do that’ from the leading experts, improve your imagery, look back at the early days of travel, or get a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of TV programmes that explore the wonders of this planet, the history and geography-steeped surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are definitely the place to be this autumn.
Priced at £55 per day or £140 for all three (with discounts for Society members and students), whether you’re an avid traveller or an armchair traveller, an experienced photographer or looking to develop your skills, these are not-to-be-missed events.
EXPLORING TRAVEL & PHOTOGRAPHY DAY – Sunday, 25th September 09.30 - 16.30
• Travel, Antarctic, panoramic and street photography lectures & workshops
• Travel lecture - Machu Picchu
• 'How to do' photographic technique workshops
• Equipment & photography advice centre
• Image manipulation workshops
Speakers include:
• Steve Bloom - award winning travel & wildlife photographer
• Hugh Thomson - explorer & writer
• Nick Meers - panoramic photographer & author
• Dave Rotchelle - press & news photographer
• Julian Paren - photographer & former member of British Antarctic Survey
• Chris Coe - photographer & founder of Travel Photographer of the Year
• Jeremy Hoare – photographer and television lighting cameraman
WILD DAY – Sunday, 2nd October 09.30 - 16.30
• Wildlife, aerial, landscape, pinhole and adventure photography lectures
• Stock photography and images for publication workshops
• Equipment & photography advice centre
• Image manipulation workshops
Speakers include:
• David Noton - Travel, landscape & stock photographer
• Jason Hawkes - aerial photographer, ‘Britain From The Air’
• Caroline Metcalfe - Director of Photography, Condé Nast
• Nick Livesey - photographer & film maker
• Timothy Allen - stills photographer on the BBC ‘Human Planet’ series
• Martin Hartley - adventure & expedition photographer
• Craig Churchill – wildlife photographer
PEOPLE & CULTURES DAY - Sunday 16th October 09.30 - 16.30
• Photographers @ work lectures
• People, street & reportage photography lectures
• Equipment & photography advice centre
• Image manipulation workshops
Speakers include:
• Steve Bloom - award winning travel & wildlife photographer
• Philip Lee Harvey - travel & advertising photographer
• Dale Templar – Series Producer, BBC’s ‘Human Planet’
• Michelle Jana Chan - BBC travel presenter & video journalist (to be confirmed)
• Mary Robert - Head of Photography, Richmond, the American International University in London
• Alexander Maitland - writer & biographer
• Amanda Marks - founder of Tribes Travel, award-winning Fair Trade travel company
Tickets and programme information are available from: www.tpoty.com/courses/tpoty-festival.
To learn ‘how to’ or ‘how did they do that’ from the leading experts, improve your imagery, look back at the early days of travel, or get a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of TV programmes that explore the wonders of this planet, the history and geography-steeped surroundings of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are definitely the place to be this autumn.
Priced at £55 per day or £140 for all three (with discounts for Society members and students), whether you’re an avid traveller or an armchair traveller, an experienced photographer or looking to develop your skills, these are not-to-be-missed events.
EXPLORING TRAVEL & PHOTOGRAPHY DAY – Sunday, 25th September 09.30 - 16.30
• Travel, Antarctic, panoramic and street photography lectures & workshops
• Travel lecture - Machu Picchu
• 'How to do' photographic technique workshops
• Equipment & photography advice centre
• Image manipulation workshops
Speakers include:
• Steve Bloom - award winning travel & wildlife photographer
• Hugh Thomson - explorer & writer
• Nick Meers - panoramic photographer & author
• Dave Rotchelle - press & news photographer
• Julian Paren - photographer & former member of British Antarctic Survey
• Chris Coe - photographer & founder of Travel Photographer of the Year
• Jeremy Hoare – photographer and television lighting cameraman
WILD DAY – Sunday, 2nd October 09.30 - 16.30
• Wildlife, aerial, landscape, pinhole and adventure photography lectures
• Stock photography and images for publication workshops
• Equipment & photography advice centre
• Image manipulation workshops
Speakers include:
• David Noton - Travel, landscape & stock photographer
• Jason Hawkes - aerial photographer, ‘Britain From The Air’
• Caroline Metcalfe - Director of Photography, Condé Nast
• Nick Livesey - photographer & film maker
• Timothy Allen - stills photographer on the BBC ‘Human Planet’ series
• Martin Hartley - adventure & expedition photographer
• Craig Churchill – wildlife photographer
PEOPLE & CULTURES DAY - Sunday 16th October 09.30 - 16.30
• Photographers @ work lectures
• People, street & reportage photography lectures
• Equipment & photography advice centre
• Image manipulation workshops
Speakers include:
• Steve Bloom - award winning travel & wildlife photographer
• Philip Lee Harvey - travel & advertising photographer
• Dale Templar – Series Producer, BBC’s ‘Human Planet’
• Michelle Jana Chan - BBC travel presenter & video journalist (to be confirmed)
• Mary Robert - Head of Photography, Richmond, the American International University in London
• Alexander Maitland - writer & biographer
• Amanda Marks - founder of Tribes Travel, award-winning Fair Trade travel company
Tickets and programme information are available from: www.tpoty.com/courses/tpoty-festival.
Monday, 20 June 2011
Go TPOTY: Fantasic prizes for photographers in Travel Photographer of the Year awards
The 2011 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) offer some fantastic rewards for successful entrants. Prizes include trips to Marrakech, Oman, Botswana and Cambodia, cash bursaries, photographic equipment and tuition - and a paid photographic commission in England and Scotland; the first such prize in the awards’ history.
All winning photographers would see their prizewinning shots published in the next TPOTY book, Journey Four, and displayed at a major TPOTY exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London during the Olympic games. And for the Overall Winner there’s a further, unique opportunity within that exhibition.
With entries open until October 9th, and the awards open to photographers of all levels and all ages (including children, too), there’s plenty of time to for all the family to pick up their cameras and get shooting…
The Overall Winner of the awards – the 2011 Travel Photographer of the Year - will be given a unique personal showcase within the TPOTY exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in the summer of 2012. The showcase will contain not just their eight TPOTY-winning images but also a selection of their other, non-TPOTY work.
The Overall Winner of the awards – the 2011 Travel Photographer of the Year - will be given a unique personal showcase within the TPOTY exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in the summer of 2012. The showcase will contain not just their eight TPOTY-winning images but also a selection of their other, non-TPOTY work.
This will give them an outstanding opportunity to demonstrate their talents to the large numbers of visitors expected to attend the exhibition in London’s cultural quarter at a time when the Olympic Games will make the city a focus for millions of visitors from around the world. In addition they’ll receive a £1,000 TPOTY cash bursary, plus Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium 5.5 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software, a Plastic Sandwich personalised leather iPad portfolio case, complete with Apple iPad2, and a Lexar Professional 600x 32GB CompactFlash memory card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader.
The winner of the Spirit of Adventure portfolio category will be awarded an exclusive commission from Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky to shoot a number of photographs in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Cutty Sark will use up to 20 of the commissioned images for internal brand education and the winning photographer will be paid a fee of £4,000, with accommodation and transport for the trip being organised and paid for separately by Cutty Sark. The commissioned images will be used under license only and will be credited to the winning photographer, who will retain the copyright.
Cultures & Traditions – the winner of this portfolio category will travel to Cambodia on a 13-day tailor-made trip with Explore, the adventure travel experts. During their time in this atmospheric country they will see the temples at Angkor Wat and Siem Reap, the caves at Takeo, take a tour of Phnom Penhn and visit the ‘Killing Fields’.
The winner of the Exotic portfolio category will journey to Botswana with Tselana Travel, the luxury tailor-made travel specialists. They will experience a superb safari in the heart of Africa, discovering the Okavango Delta and its breathtaking wildlife. They will go on game drives in open vehicles, enjoy water activities like safaris in Mokoro, and have the chance of some wonderful bird watching. This trip is for two people, so they can take a guest!
The Oman Ministry of Tourism and Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, have teamed up to provide a fantastic holiday prize for the winner of the Natural Elements portfolio category. The Oman Ministry of Tourism will host the winner for seven nights in Oman. They will stay in Muscat, Nizwa, Wahiba Sands and the Jebel Akhtar mountains. The prize also includes a city tour of Muscat.
The winners of all four portfolio categories also receive Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software plus a Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader. And the winners of the Best Single Image award in each of the four portfolio categories will receive a beautiful 24” exhibition print of their winning entry from Genesis Digital, who make the TPOTY exhibition prints, along with a print of one of the fascinating historic images from the archive of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
The 2011 New Talent winner will travel to Marrakech with award-winning tailor-made sustainable travel specialists Tribes Travel and stay in a riad (traditional townhouse) in this colourful and highly photogenic town. They will also receive Adobe, Photoshop Lightroom 3 software, plus a Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader, a personalised Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio case or iPad cover and two TPOTY/Photo Iconic image critiques – one before their prize trip and one afterwards.
The winner of the One Shot, Wild Moments single image category receives £500, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software and a Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader.
There will be two winners of the beginners’ single image category, First Shot - Work, Rest, Play. They will each receive Adobe Photoshop Lightroom3 software and a Photo Iconic photography course, or an online image critique. The two Runners-Up and four Commended entrants each receive critiques.
The Young Travel Photographer of the Year will receive £500, plus Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader, personalised Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio case or iPad cover and an image critique session. The winner of Young TPOTY 14 & Under and the winner of Young TPOTY 15-18 each receive a Lexar Professional 400x 8GB CompactFlash card plus an online critique, while the runners-up receive a Lexar Professional 400x 8GB CompactFlash card.
Finally, the winner of the Young Photographers’ Alliance Emerging Talent Award, for the most interesting entry submitted by a photographer aged 25 or under in the New Talent or Young TPOTY categories will be given a place on the YPA mentoring programme.
The TPOTY awards are open to amateur and professional photographers from all countries and images can be submitted as prints or uploaded online. Entries for the 2011 TPOTY awards close on October 9th. Entry fees start at £10 and Young TPOTY is free to enter. Images can be submitted online or as prints. Full details on how to enter can be found at www.tpoty.com.
Image shown is by Eric Kruszewski - TPOTY 2010
The winner of the Spirit of Adventure portfolio category will be awarded an exclusive commission from Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky to shoot a number of photographs in London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Cutty Sark will use up to 20 of the commissioned images for internal brand education and the winning photographer will be paid a fee of £4,000, with accommodation and transport for the trip being organised and paid for separately by Cutty Sark. The commissioned images will be used under license only and will be credited to the winning photographer, who will retain the copyright.
Cultures & Traditions – the winner of this portfolio category will travel to Cambodia on a 13-day tailor-made trip with Explore, the adventure travel experts. During their time in this atmospheric country they will see the temples at Angkor Wat and Siem Reap, the caves at Takeo, take a tour of Phnom Penhn and visit the ‘Killing Fields’.
The winner of the Exotic portfolio category will journey to Botswana with Tselana Travel, the luxury tailor-made travel specialists. They will experience a superb safari in the heart of Africa, discovering the Okavango Delta and its breathtaking wildlife. They will go on game drives in open vehicles, enjoy water activities like safaris in Mokoro, and have the chance of some wonderful bird watching. This trip is for two people, so they can take a guest!
The Oman Ministry of Tourism and Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, have teamed up to provide a fantastic holiday prize for the winner of the Natural Elements portfolio category. The Oman Ministry of Tourism will host the winner for seven nights in Oman. They will stay in Muscat, Nizwa, Wahiba Sands and the Jebel Akhtar mountains. The prize also includes a city tour of Muscat.
The winners of all four portfolio categories also receive Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software plus a Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader. And the winners of the Best Single Image award in each of the four portfolio categories will receive a beautiful 24” exhibition print of their winning entry from Genesis Digital, who make the TPOTY exhibition prints, along with a print of one of the fascinating historic images from the archive of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
The 2011 New Talent winner will travel to Marrakech with award-winning tailor-made sustainable travel specialists Tribes Travel and stay in a riad (traditional townhouse) in this colourful and highly photogenic town. They will also receive Adobe, Photoshop Lightroom 3 software, plus a Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader, a personalised Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio case or iPad cover and two TPOTY/Photo Iconic image critiques – one before their prize trip and one afterwards.
The winner of the One Shot, Wild Moments single image category receives £500, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 software and a Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader.
There will be two winners of the beginners’ single image category, First Shot - Work, Rest, Play. They will each receive Adobe Photoshop Lightroom3 software and a Photo Iconic photography course, or an online image critique. The two Runners-Up and four Commended entrants each receive critiques.
The Young Travel Photographer of the Year will receive £500, plus Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, Lexar Professional 600x 16GB CompactFlash card + Lexar Professional Dual-Slot card reader, personalised Plastic Sandwich leather portfolio case or iPad cover and an image critique session. The winner of Young TPOTY 14 & Under and the winner of Young TPOTY 15-18 each receive a Lexar Professional 400x 8GB CompactFlash card plus an online critique, while the runners-up receive a Lexar Professional 400x 8GB CompactFlash card.
Finally, the winner of the Young Photographers’ Alliance Emerging Talent Award, for the most interesting entry submitted by a photographer aged 25 or under in the New Talent or Young TPOTY categories will be given a place on the YPA mentoring programme.
The TPOTY awards are open to amateur and professional photographers from all countries and images can be submitted as prints or uploaded online. Entries for the 2011 TPOTY awards close on October 9th. Entry fees start at £10 and Young TPOTY is free to enter. Images can be submitted online or as prints. Full details on how to enter can be found at www.tpoty.com.
Image shown is by Eric Kruszewski - TPOTY 2010
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