Chocolate: The British Chocolate Industry

Chocolate: The British Chocolate Industry is a new book from Shire Publishing by Paul Chrystal and Joe Dickinson including photography by Mark Sunderland.

Chocolate

This book charts the history of chocolate manufacture, marketing and consumption in Britain from its origins in the eighteenth century. It then describes the golden age from 1900 to the 1970s and the subsequent US and Swiss invasions, spearheaded by brands such as Mars, Toblerone and Nestlé’s Milky Bar, including the takeovers by Nestle and Kraft.

Photographs by Mark include images of Joe Dickinson’s amazing collection of Rowntree’s memorabilia, and Mark did most of the still life and copy photography for the book.

Spring Workshops and Gift Vouchers

Two new spring workshops have just been added to the Natural Light Photography Workshops schedule and to make the most of the 2012 dates gift vouchers are now available from £20 up to a full workshop!

Wild Garlic in Strid Wood

The 2012 schedule so far includes Malham on 19th May, taking in spring foliage and wild garlic in the woods leading up to Janet’s Foss as well as the popular Gordale Scar and Malham Cove locations.  Fresh spring leaves and wild garlic flowers will also form the backdrop to the Bolton Abbey workshop on 26th May.

The new Gift Vouchers and Shop page on the Natural Light website includes £20, £60, £115 (day workshop) and £145 (day workshop and post-processing) vouchers along with books, calendars and cards from Mark Sunderland and Sam Oakes.

Finally, if you can’t wait till spring, there are still spaces available on the Natural Light autumn workshops at Bolton Abbey (midweek and weekend) and Aysgarth.

The Buckets Are Back!

I have added two further designs to the new range of greetings cards with Artist Publishers including (by popular demand!) Fire Buckets and Cliff Tramway Kiosk which featured in my previous handmade card range.

Fire Buckets

The cards are priced at £2.50 each and are available now from the Artist Publishers website. The cards measure 172x125mm (approx 7x5in) also benefit from FSC accreditation and bar coding.

Landscape Expressions Exhibition at Lockwoods

A selection of Mark’s abstract and traditional landscape images from in and around the Yorkshire Dales at Lockwoods Restaurant in Ripon from next month.

Blubberhouses Moor, Summer

Opening 14 September 2011.

There will be a champagne and canapé reception starting at 7pm with live music from Frankly Jazz.

Booking recommended. You can register your attendance on the Facebook event here>

The exhibition continues until March 2012

Lockwoods Restaurant
83 North Street, Ripon, North Yorkshire, HG4 1DP.

For further information on events and exhibitions at Lockwoods see the restaurant newsletter.

Artist Publishers Greetings Cards

I have launched a new range of landscape photography greetings cards via Artist Publishers, starting with four additional Yorkshire designs which I had been planning to add to my Yorkshire Seasons lithographic range for a while.

Artist Publishers Cards

The cards measure 172x125mm (approx 7x5in) also benefit from FSC accreditation and bar coding.  The retail price is £2.50.  This new format will allow me to add new designs more quickly and will eventually replace the Yorkshire Seasons range.

Knaresborough feva Mini-Workshop

I’m running a short taster landscape photography workshop for Natural Light Photography Workshops as part of the feva festival in Knaresborough this year, including an informal talk and practical tuition on a short walk to the castle and river.

Boat Number 62, River Nidd

We will start with a talk on subject selection, how to make the most out of lighting and composition, followed by a short walk to Knaresborough’s famous castle and riverside with detailed tuition on exposure along the way. The workshop is ideally suited to digital SLR users but any camera that offers full manual control over exposure will be fine. If you have a tripod then bring that along!

Maximum 5 participants, £35 per person

Tuesday 16th August 2011, 2-6pm

Call 01423 550138 for more details and to book, or get in touch via the website.

More workshops in the Yorkshire Dales: www.marksunderland.com/workshops

New Website Launched!

The new version of the Mark Sunderland Photography website has now launched at www.marksunderland.com!

Chalk Cliffs at Sunset

The new site has a completely re-designed portfolio section including a Recent Work folder so you can easily keep up to date with the latest images added to the site.  There are also some previously unseen images in the Wild Places and American West galleries.  In Wild Places,   San Valentin, Sunrise follows on from San Valentin showing the dramatic change in light as the sun comes over the horizon illuminating the peaks of the southern Andes alongside Lago General Carrera in Chile. In the American West gallery, an old 5×4 shot of The Mittens in Monument Valley before dawn has been added, and to close out this gallery The Mittens at Sunset shows this iconic formation at the other end of the day.

Also added to the site is a brand new Articles section which includes an interview and some travel and photography technique features – more articles will be added from time to time so keep checking back to the new marksunderland.com!

Eduardo Niebla My Yorkshire Road Concert Premiere

Here is the flyer for the concert premiere of “My Yorkshire Road” by Eduardo Niebla, featuring an image from the shoot I did with Eduardo on Twistleton Scar in the Yorkshire Dales. The shoot was great fun, but we did get some odd looks from passing walkers as we slogged up Twistleton Scar armed with camera gear, tripod, Spanish guitar and concert shoes! Eduardo’s new suite of music is inspired by the North Yorkshire landscape, culture and heritage and premieres at Holy Trinity Church, Kirkby Road, Ripon on Saturday 23rd July and as part of the Ryedale Festival in Danby on Sunday 24th July.

For more details see www.eduardoniebla.com

Eduardo Niebla "My Yorkshire Road" Premiere

Natural Light Photography Workshops

I have teamed up with photographer Sam Oakes to offer a series of landscape photography workshops based in the Yorkshire Dales later this year. Not only is Sam a talented photographer but he also brings substantial holiday tour-leading skills to our workshops, all of which are based around short walks in the Dales.

Full details can be found at the Natural Light Workshops website where you can also make bookings.

Natural Light Photography Workshops

Our workshops for 2011 are as follows:

Malham 30/7/11
Swaledale 27/8/11
Malham 17/9/11
Bolton Abbey (midweek) 20/10/11
Bolton Abbey 05/11/11
Aysgarth 12/11/11

If you’d like to discuss one of the workshops then don’t hesitate to give me a call on 01423 550138 or you can contact Sam on 07767 628764.

natural-light-workshops.co.uk
landscape-photography-workshops.co.uk

Richmond and Swaledale Through Time Now Available

Richmond and Swaledale Through Time, my sixth book with Paul Chrystal in the Through Time series from Amberley Books is now available.

Richmond and Swaledale Through Time

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Richmond and the villages Swaledale have changed and developed over the last century. Richmond is one of the most scenic towns in Britain; Swaledale is one of the country s most beautiful and inspirational rural areas.