New Forest Motorcycle Photo Tour

3 days / 4 nights 18 - 22 September 2023

£1475 per person - 8/8 places left

18th September: Arrivals
19, 20, 21st September: Photo rides
22nd September: Departures

With it's beautiful coastline, open heaths, windy back roads through woodland and rural villages, The New Forest and surrounding areas are awesome places to ride, explore and shoot photos. I'm not only a life long biker, I'm also a world class photography trainer too. More on me at the bottom of the page.

Rides are a leisurely 100 miles (ish) a day with pleanty of photo opportunities along the way. The intention is for you to have a great time, explore beautiful new motorcycle rides in like minded company and learn how to capture the best possible images of it all too.

Want some cool pics of you and your bike?

Even if you just shoot with a phone, I'll help you get the very best photos and memories of your travels. Great images of your bike, capturing your mates bantering, the places we visit. We'll take turns shooting and being the 'model' so you get to take away a load of pics of you and your bike, looking every inch the hot property you are.

Where we're based - and where we're going

We'll be staying in Lyndhurst, ancient capital of the New Forest with daily ride outs of approximately 100 miles each to three different areas of outstanding natural beauty. We'll return to our hotel each evening.

rough route

This is an outline of the fantastic areas we'll ride, explore and shoot together. It is not our exact route.

Itinerary

Monday 18 September:

Arrivals at our hotel in Lyndhurst. Ancient capital of the New Forest. Meet and greet 6.30pm in the hotel bar / restaurant.

Tuesday 19th September:

Early 7.00am departure to ride across the forest to nearby coast where some awesome photo opportunities await you at Lepe Country park. We'll have breakfast at the cafe, before taking a zig-zaggy ride across the forest heaths with their famous New Forest ponies, woodlands and ancient villages. We'll be stopping as and when photo opportunities present themselves.

Lunch at an excellent 17th century pub which really is in the heart of the forest. Watch out for passing ponies trying to steal your bread roll!

In the afternoon we'll loop around the north of the forest to a pretty little pond next to a Beech wood. This man-made pond (built in 1871 to power a gunpowder mill) is a perfect place to capture reflections.

Next we're off to a deer sanctuary situated in an open clearing in a valley. The late afternoon light coming towards the camera, backlights the fallow deer, so they stand out against the surrounding forest.

We'll return to the hotel for 6pm where you can have a free and easy evening enjoying some R&R and dinner. Or, if you want more and the conditions are good, there's an excellent pond only 10 miles away that's perfect for shooting sunset.

[92 Miles]

Wednesday 20th September:

After an early breakfast, we'll hit some lovely rural roads to a beautiful avenue of trees for a 'photographing bikers' workshop session, using each other as models, before taking in more lovely country roads to the ancient town of Shaftesbury (built during the late 9th century by Alfred the Great) for lunch.

We'll spend an hour or so shooting the awesome photo ops Shaftesbury has to offer. Our route back takes in the beautiful Cranbourne Chase.

We'll arrive back at the hotel around 6pm for an evening of R&R, dinner, reviewing photos, free and easy..

[100 miles]

Thursday 21st September:

We'll take a circuitous route through the Hampshire countryside's fields and villages with their many photo ops along the way, to hilltop monument of Farley Mount near Winchester, before continuing into the western end of The South Downs to the famous Loomies Moto Cafe for lunch.

We'll return via a different, but equally picturesque route to a location on the heath not far from the hotel. This is a great place for more bike and rider pics, scenery and the ubiquitous New Forest Ponies. Around 6pm we'll head back to the hotel for dinner.

[100 miles]

Friday 22nd September:

Departures and fond farewells.

What do I need?

Motorcycle & riding gear

Please ensure your bike is road legal and in good running order well before the workshop. Whilst breakdowns do sometimes happen, it would be unfair on others if your bike is un-reliable and disrupts everyone else.

Camera

DSLR, mirrorless, bridge, compact or phone are all fine. If you have a Gopro or similar, this is a great opportunity to record your epic ride on some fab back roads through stunning scenery.

Other important stuff...

I'll share a detailed daily route which can be loaded into Google Maps app on your phone.

Google Maps app on your phone.
‘In Ear’ headphones connected to phone or a handlebar mount.
Power pack and phone charger cable. (I don’t want you to be lost because your phone died)
Google Sheets app installed on your phone.
Motorcycle licence, tax and insurance cover.

Booking deadline - 18th July 2023

I ask for a £250 deposit before 18th July 2023 to secure your place, once confirm full payment will be due
If we do not have the minimum number of participants to run the workshop, your payment will be refunded in full
Please do not book accomodation / travel until we confirm

If you have any queries, please contact us

Price includes

Hotel accommodation (4 nights - Cosy snug double)
Breakfast at the hotel
Photography training
Route Guiding

Price does NOT include

Lunch, dinner, snacks or breakfast away from the hotel
Beverages
Fuel
Clothing, accessories, sat nav, camera equipment or motorcycle

Want to speak with me about it?

£1475 per person

£250 non refundable deposit - balance payable July 2023

Pay £250 Deposit

Prefer to pay in full? Please contact us

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Your tutor at a glance

I've been riding bikes as my go-to transport since I was 14. It's my happy place, meditation and fun space. There's nothing I love more than trying to get lost in some beautiful scenery for a day or two. Sometimes more... I currently have x2 Triumph Thunderbirds, a cosmetically un-restored 1950 BSA B31 and my favourite bike of all time - a 900 Triumph Legend I've had from new. It's on its 2nd time round the odometer now!

I'm flattered to have been called the UK's friendliest Photography Expert (Thanks 500px!). I'm proud to have made hundreds of videos and spent thousands of hours teaching people like you to see more beauty in the world every day (and to capture that beauty), by thinking like a photographer.

My YouTube channel has served more than 26 Million views and has more than 260,000 subscribers. I've appeared on TV shows and been asked to speak at some of the best photography events on earth, such as:

Xposure International Photography Festival, Sharjah, UAE
The Photography Show, Birmingham, UK

I've enjoyed a wonderful career as a photographer, presenter and teacher. I even trained as a teacher so that I could reach my full potential and enable others to reach theirs.

As a photographer, I'm proud to have won multiple awards:

Petapixel TopTen Youtube Trainers list
x3 Xposure International Photography Festival Awards
Fuji Commercial - X2 Fuji Wedding
Kodak Gold
14 Master Photographers Association Awards

And I've been lucky to have had exhibitions at prestigious venues such as:

The Master Photographers Association
Royal Photographic Society
Romanian Embassy (London)
Xposure Photography Festival - others...

When not teaching photography I also have a role as a brand ambassador for ClickASnap.com and I have written for publications such as:

Ephotozine
DSLR User magazine
Professional Photographer
Photography Monthly - others...

Trumping all of this, my proudest achievement to date is the huge number of wonderful 5* reviews on Trustpilot and Google - written by people like you after completing my courses. This is what inspires me to continue creating courses to help more people fall in love with photography.

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with 1950 BSA B31

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