WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY SKILLS?

Then join us on a photo tour in the south of With professional photographers Jon Davison and Kingsley Klau

Spring tour April 28th to 4th May 2017 ....NOT GETTING THE RESULTS YOU WANT WITH YOUR CAMERA?

...... DO YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CRAFT OF PHOTOGRAPHY?

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 2 CORDES-SUR-CIEL - Treasure of gothic architecture

IMAGINE SPENDING A WEEK IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE WITH TWO PROFESSIONAL PHOPTOGRAPHERS!

Join professional photographer Jon Davison and his wife Jude, with guest photographer Kingsley Klau, on one of their small group photo-tours. During the tour, centred in the stunning hill-top village of Cordes-sur-Ciel, Jon will help you gain that all important ‘photographers eye’. This fun and informative tour will offer you the chance to shoot many of the historic villages and landscapes of this stunning region - the heart of Cathar country.

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 3 THE CATHEDRAL CITY OF AND THE HILL TOP VILLAGE OF CORDES-SUR-CIEL ARE TWO LITTLE KNOWN ABSOLUTE TREASURES OF FRANCE.

ALBI - The episcopal city Experience vineyards, sunflower fields, medieval villages, ruined castles and fortifications, soaring spires, gastonomical delights, charming pigeonniers, rolling green hills, rugged valleys, the Cathar heresy trail, Bastide towns and much more. The has a wealth of photographic oportunities. Let Jon, Jude and Kingsley introduce you this spectacular place.

The market town of St Antonin Noble Val

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 5 THE TOUR - includes all your accommodation, meals and transport

Our fun and informative 7 day tours cater for a • Landscapes maximum of 10 guests, independant of what • Time-exposures your photography level is. You will receive • Tripods, shutter releases, WiFi access. expert photographic tuition while experiencing some of the sights of the historic Tarn region of POST PRODUCTION / EDITING southern France, from the comfort of our air- • Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom tuition conditioned mini-bus. • Filing, folder management, saving, opening All theory and tuition, including Photoshop will files, layers. be provided by Jon and Kingsley. Jude will give • Formats; RAW, jpeg, TIFF, png etc. you the low-down on the local food, wines, art • HDR, optimisating your images. history and insights into the cultural fabric of the area. ACCOMMODATION & MEALS Tuition includes course notes, daily handouts Your accommodation will be at the spacious and assignments. Illustrated PDF downloadable and beautiful La Borie Grande, a ten minute documents will be available from the tour drive from Cordes. Two choices of rooms are website. As well as daylight tuition, delivery of available here. the course content will also cover dawn, sunset, • Seven rooms with en-suite dusk and night shoots, with critiques and • Three rooms with shared bathroom Photoshop tuition in the evening or rainy days. • All breakfasts, lunches (inc packed lunches The tours will incorporate the following elements during the daily sorties) and evening meals, as part of our daily activities: including wine are provided. • Transport to and from La Borie for all the THE CRAFT shoot locations, meetings, outings etc during • Getting to grips with composition the course is provided. Includes daily on-board • Learning about colour nibbles and bottled water. • Getting to know your camera (inc aperture, shutter speeds, DoF and other controls) Course fee per person for the week is AU$ • Post production / editing 3,500.00 inclusive of all the above. • Sunrise and sunset shoots Price does not include airfares to Toulouse, • Night time shoots (star trails) and mandatory travel insurance or personal • Making a time-lapse sequence purchases. A 50% deposit is required to secure • Shooting in rain / grey days your place as spaces are limited. See our Terms • Architecture & Conditions ; http://www.eyeinthesky.com.au/ esp-photo-tours/

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 6 THE PRECARIOUSLY PERCHED THIRTEENTH CENTURY PENNE CASTLE.

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 7 SUBJECT SELECTION Night - ruined castle. • Castles and fortified towns/villages Castlenau du Montmirail • Pigeonniers • Wineries • Art galleries Sunset - Fortified medieval town. • Landscapes • Sunflowers/Lavender fields La Borie Grande (season dependant) • Farmscapes • Portraits Sunrise, dusk, night - Home!. • Ruins • Atomspheric changes • Flora & Najac fauna • Cuisine setups, cafes, people Day / sunset - Fortified medieval town. • Rivers • Cathar locations. • Urban scapes Monesties and many more. Day - Medieval village, pigeonniers. Andillac, Brens, SHOOT LOCATIONS Dusk/night - pigeonniers. Although we will be travelling through many towns and villages, we will mainly be shooting Day - ruined castle, river crossing. at the following locations. Shooting will cover a mixture of daytime shoots, twilight and night, WHAT EQUIPMENT TO BRING sunrise or sunset; If you don’t have a DSLR, then your smart phone, tablet etc will suffice. Primarily this St Martin Laguepie course is about learning to see, so what camera Twilight - ruined castle. you have is secondary. But ideally, one DSLR St Antonin Noble Val camera body and one or two lenses. Day - Market town, river Aveyron. 1. A wide angle lens (fixed focus or zoom) Bruniquel somewhere in the range of 14 to 28mm. Dusk - Fortified medieval town. 2. A telephoto lens (fixed or zoom) within the Puycelci range of 200 to 300mm. That is it! you don’t Dawn - Fortified medieval town. need any more. If you can’t bring the subject Penne closer to you, or push it away from you with Sunset - ruined castle. these two lenses, then it’s not worth shooting Cordes-sur-Ciel (for this course anyway). Any lenses outside All - Fortified medieval town. these are generally considered specialist lenses Vedillerie, , Sarmases, Les Cabannes for wildlife, landscape etc. And you don’t All - Views of Cordes. really want to be carrying a lot of unneccesary Albi and Toulouse equipment around, not that it may get stolen, Sunset/twilight - Medieval cities. you will just find it hard going. Castlenau de Levis • Laptop computer if you have one.

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 8 • Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom. (If WHAT TO WEAR you don’t have either of these and you wish to, As we will be spending most of our time in after seeing what Jon can do with them! then medieval towns and villages with cobble-stone we will show you how to subscribe to Adobe streets and steep hills, good walking shoes are and download the app whilst you are here). a MUST! Keep the high-heels for the evenings! • Travel tripod (just large enough to hold your It does not get too cold, but a packable rain camera) for evening shoots, time lapses etc. coat or jacket would be advisable. • Cable release or digital shutter controller. Casual, comfortable clothing is all you will need, • Memory cards! (32 or 64Gb). but you may wish to dress up for dinner at La Borie Grande. Parking is an issue in many of these small villages, so we may have to walk to where the action is. But at the very most, you will only need to walk about two hundred metres. While we are not going to be scaling mountains, a reasonable level of fitness is preferable. Wheelchar access is more-or-less unheard of in the villages!

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 9 La Borie Grande

Your accommodation is at the lovely La Borie Grande, this includes your daily breakfast and evening meals for the duration of the tour. It’s also where we will be holding our photo critique evenings and Photoshop tutorials. La Borie can accommodate up to 20 people, so there is plenty of room to spread out and make yourself at home. It has an outdoor pool, tennis court, screening room, two acres of landscape grounds, a huge converted barn that is now a painting and training workshop/art studios, kitchen and theatre facilities. La Borie is located at the apex of the “Triangle d’Or” (golden triangle), considered to be Tarn’s most prized area. The rolling countryside is a patchwork of vineyards, sunflower fields and pasture, dotted with medieval villages and hilltop bastides. Visible from the rooms and garden of La Borie Grande is the medieval village of Cordes- sur-Ciel, the largest and best-preserved of the 13th Century bastide towns (and Jon and Judes home). Your course tutors Jon, Jude and Kingsley, plus your hosts Gilly and Tim at La Borie Grande, will be on hand to make your stay as comfortable as possible.

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 10 The view of Cordes from La Borie

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 11 ...... RUINED CASTLES, CHATEAUX AND FORTIFIED TOWNS ARE THROUGHOUT THE TARN REGION ......

St Martin Laguipie

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 12 .....AS WELL AS PIGEONNIERS, OF WHICH THE TARN HAS THE GREATEST NUMBER IN FRANCE.

La Nauze pigeonnier, near Brens

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 13 WE COULD SHOOT AT SUNRISE ONE DAY, SUNSET THE NEXT, AS WELL AS NIGHT CAPTURES. WE WILL FOLLOW THE LIGHT...... C’EST EXQUISITE!

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 10 ESP PHOTOTOURS - 11 THE LIGHTING YOU CHOOSE WILL TRANSFORM ANY SUBJECT AND IS THE DETERMING FACTOR WHETHER YOUR IMAGE ‘POPS’ OR IS SIMPLY A RECORD.

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 16 MAIN IMAGE: The Cerou Valley, taken from our home in Cordes at midnight, with the moon being the only light illuminating the landscape . This was a thirty second exposure with the camera on a tripod. RIGHT: The medieval town of Najac, dominated by its 13th century ruined castle. This is just 30 mins from Cordes.

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DETAILS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE BIG PICTURE. A

THE TEAM

Your hosts at ESP Photo Tours are professional photographer Jon Davison and his wife Jude Brazendale, who operate from their home in Cordes-sur-Ciel, together with guest photographer Kingsley Klau, from Rockingham in Western Australia.

JON DAVISON Jon (a native Kiwi) has worked as a photographer all his life. He worked as a travel photographer for 20 years, plus has been photographing the aviation industry for an equal amount of time. He has been teaching Photoshop for 10 years, and has produced over 18 of his own books. Jon is passionate about all things photographic. He lived in New Zealand for 23 years, 27 years in Western Australia, Oxford UK for 17 years, and has now made his home in France! Jon is an enthusiastic trainer and tour leader.

JUDE BRAZENDALE Jude (oddly enough, also a Kiwi!) has been involved with the arts and related fields for many years. She is passionate about the culture and arts of the Tarn region and its wines! Jude has also been a teacher of English as a foreign language for 20 years.

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KINGSLEY KLAU Kingsley was born in Ceduna, South Australia and now resides near Perth, Western Australia. In 1972 he joined the Royal Australian Navy, which introduced him to the wonders of travel and photography and has been an on-going passion ever since. Kingsley became an AIPP Accredited Photographer in 2005 and has since developed his skills to become an extensive teacher, ranging from DSLR to mobile device photography. Kingsley is the Nikon School Instructor in Western Australian, and now travels broadly to further his skills and knowledge.

OPPOSITE: Jon at Merville, by Jude LEFT: Jude at Merville, by Jon ABOVE: Kingsley at Penne, by Jon.

ESP PHOTOTOURS - 21 L to R: Castlenau de Montmiral landscape. La Panoramique restaurant, Cordes. Castlenau de Levis 40m tower. Old motorbike, Albi. Nikon and Le petit dejeuner.

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Join us in the search for the intangible essence of light! ESP PHOTO TOURS Eye in the Sky Productions 9 Rue des Mitons Cordes-sur-Ciel Department du Tarn France 81170

Jon Davison Jude Brazendale Kingsley Klau

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