The great lakes!
THE PRO
NAME: Pete Rowbottom
CAMERA: Nikon D850
Pete has been shooting landscapes since the ’80s, moving through DSLRs from the D90, D200, D7100, D750 and D810 to the D850 he uses now. He supplies images to Nikon USA among other clients and sells through agencies like Getty, but things really took off when he won the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2018 contest. Based in Wigan, Lancashire, the Lake District is on his doorstep, where he offers one-to-one tuition. See www.peterowbottom.net
THE APPRENTICE
NAME: Bill Knight
CAMERA: Nikon D7200
Bill, who lives in Derbyshire, has recently retired after a 46-year career as a software engineer. His first interest in photography came about with both film SLR and movie cameras in his late teens, and was rekindled when he bought a D5000 – along with issue one of N-Photo – back in 2011. He’s since upgraded via a D5300 to a D7200, and loves to shoot landscapes, but complains that his shots never seem to turn out as sharp as he’d like, so came to N-Photo for help.
The weather wasn’t looking that promising, with flooding hitting much of the UK in the days preceding their shoot and rain forecast for the Lake District. “Unless there’s a really severe weather warning we’ll press on,” Pete explained to Bill as they made the final arrangements. “There’s always something to shoot in the Lakes, and I’ve got contingency plans come rain or shine!”
The plan was to shoot around Ambleside, at the northern tip of Lake Windermere,
