Light & Land
Spotlight on… Adrian Beasley
6th February 2017
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This week the Spotlight is on... Adrian Beasley!
✭ How long have you worked for Light and Land?
"I started teaching 2-day intensive Photoshop workshops for Light & Land in 2006, so that’s 10-years now!"
✭ When did you discover photography?
"A friend introduced me to basic developing and printing while I was at school. I loved the whole darkroom process but I didn’t follow it up once I went to College. The bug finally bit in 1995 when I decided to document the band I was playing in (and still do!) and the beauty of Snowdonia which I had just discovered. I bought an SLR (Minolta) thinking that was all I needed to take great photos! Of course, I found out that I was a lousy photographer, so I enrolled in the City & Guilds photography evening classes at the local college. I quickly decided I wanted big prints and upgraded to a Mamiya 7 which I used for many years until Digital arrived."
✭ Which camera do you use?
"I sat tight with my Mamiya when the digital revolution hit, waiting for something from Minolta. I almost jumped ship, but finally the 7D arrived along with in-body stabilisation, a great camera. Since then, Sony swallowed up Minolta and I followed with the Sony A900 (which the mirror fell-off) and now the A7RII which I love."
✭ Favourite place you’ve visited?
"I have been fortunate to visit some spectacular places all over the world. I even took my Mamiya 7 underwater in the Maldives in what can only be described as a plastic bag! However, after visiting 2 or 3 times a year for the past 20 years, it’s hard to think of anywhere that I feel more at home than Snowdonia."
✭ What’s your favourite image of yours?
"Hard to pick a favourite picture but this one was taken when my daughter and I went camping at the foot of Tryfan in Snowdonia. It sums up for me the glorious feeling of being outdoors, at least until the midges arrive!"
✭ What’s your favourite food?
"I love curry! Making it as well as eating it. I do tend to go for the hot end of the scale. I never used to understand people sweating over a hot curry, but now I’m one of them."
✭ If you could be any animal what would it be?
"It would have to be a bird of some sort because I have always wanted to fly. But I’m also very lazy, so it would have to be a lazy bird, drifting on the thermals all day long…."
See all of Adrian's upcoming workshops and tours here.