The Shropshire Hills - Robin Jukes-Hughes
Robin Jukes-Hughes, author of "Portrait of The Shropshire Hills"
27th October 2010
Robin Jukes-Hughes will be attending Welshpool Camera Club on 27th October 2010 to present a slideshow of images from the Shropshire Hills. The slideshow will showcase a variety of images from the photographer's book "Portrait of The Shropshire Hills", a beautiful book with stunning photographs of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: it's landscapes, fauna and flora.
Welshpool Camera Club is ideally located for some great landscape photography opportunities, having coastline, hills, mountains, waterfalls, rivers, National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty all within an hour's drive.
There are 40 Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in England and Wales with our closest, the Shropshire Hills, being one of first in 1958. The area covers 802 square kilometres extending from the Wrekin to the Clun Forest and from the Stiperstones to the Clee Hills.
Although there are undoubtedly more famous AONB's our local one has it's own unique qualities and beauty:
- varied geology spanning many eras - from fossilised sea-beds to volcanic rocks
- hill tops exhibiting the seasonal colour changes of heather and bracken or hiding cotton grass and marsh violets
- red grouse, skylark and the occasional red kite soaring the hills
- archaeology and history of the borders revealed as hillforts and earthworks
Or, to us as photographers, that's a wide variety of photographic opportunities with fantastic wide-angle views, macro opportunities if the lighting just isn't quite right and a day out walking in peace and quiet where you might not even see another person all day.
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