Would you like to get to know our Professional photographers better? Our new weekly feature will do just that ... 

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.