OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY
PEOPLE • ACTION • PLACES
by
Jon Sparks and Chiz Dakin
2 POLICE SQUARE, MILNTHORPE, CUMBRIA LA7 7PY
About the Authors
Chiz Dakin is an award-winning freelance photographer, with particular interest in outdoor themes such as landscape, adventure sports and travel. Oh, and she never thought she’d say this, but wildlife too.
She’s a keen mountain walker, scrambler/mountaineer and cyclist and enjoys a variety of watersports (sea-kayaking, diving and windsurfing in particular) whenever she gets the chance.
She also finds photography is a great excuse to indulge in her passion for travelling. She’s now visited some part of all seven continents, and has made some epic trips, such as driving from Cairns to Perth via Broome in Australia, semi-circumnavigating Antarctica in an icebreaker and summiting a peak over 6000m high in Ladakh. She also publishes her own range of greetings cards, and runs workshops on outdoor photography in Derbyshire and Southern Spain.
Chiz lives in the Derwent Valley Heritage Corridor, very close to the Peak District.
She was the winner of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild (OWPG) Award for Excellence in Photography in 2008.
Other Cicerone guides by Chiz
Cycling in the Peak District
Jon Sparks has been passionate about photography and the outdoors since childhood. A six-week trek in the Karakoram Mountains, Pakistan, in 1990 was a turning-point; the learning curve was steep, but the pictures were rewarding. His first exhibition soon followed, and four years later he became a full-time photographer.
Jon specialises in landscape and outdoor subjects, and his picture library includes images from New Zealand, Canada, Morocco, Australia, Pakistan, Jordan and more than 20 European nations. He also supplies images to the global libraries Corbis and Alamy. He publishes Lake District greetings cards and postcards, and so far has his name on over thirty books, including guides to every current Nikon digital SLR.
Jon is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild. He lives in Garstang, Lancashire, close to the Forest of Bowland – which can be a distraction from writing.
Other Cicerone guides by Jon
The Lancashire Cycleway
© Jon Sparks and Chiz Dakin 2002, 2011
Second edition 2011
ISBN: 978 1 85284 646 6
First edition 2002
ISBN-10: 1 85284 356 X
ISBN-13: 978 1 85284 356 4
Printed by KHL Printing, Singapore
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
All photographs are by the authors, as indicated – Jon (Sparks) and Chiz (Dakin).
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to ensure that the instructions and techniques in this book cover the subject safely and in full detail. However, the authors and publishers cannot accept any responsibility for any accident, injury, loss or damage sustained while following any of the techniques described.
Front cover (main): Above Easedale Tarn, Lake District (Jon)
Back cover: On Parlick, Forest of Bowland (Jon)
CONTENTS
2 HARDWARE FOR THE OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHER
6 ROPED SPORTS – CLIMBING, ABSEILING AND MOUNTAINEERING
APPENDIX III Links and further reading
Aonach Mor, Scotland: Hoar frost crystals on a foreground rock add interest, and it’s unlikely a tour bus will reach here!
FIRST LIGHT
Approaching Black Clough, Forest of Bowland (Jon)
