January 2021 course launch!
What is A Year With My Camera?
A Year With My Camera is an online beginner’s photography course available on your app store (£4.99 for a year’s subscription) or free by email for 12 months. Registration is now open for the January 2021 course - get your new year’s resolutions off to a great start.
It is written by Emma Davies who has a Master’s degree in Psychology, specialising in online education. She taught photography in person for years before she took the course online. She knows where the bumps come, and she has designed the course to get you over them as easily as possible.
A Year With My Camera assumes you know nothing. Nothing at all - we start before the beginning, with all the stuff other courses think is too basic to bother with.
Why join A Year With My Camera?
Apart from being off-auto mode by February you’ll be joining a ready-made community of photographers all of whom have the same priorities as you:
you know you can’t learn photography in a weekend
you want to learn it once and learn it right
you agree that the photographer is more important than the camera (we don’t talk about gear much)
you know you won’t get it right the first time you try but you’re happy to give it a go
App (£4.99 per year) or email (free)?
We strongly recommend you do both. Join the app to jump in with a ready-made community of beginner photographers just like you. You can access all the lessons straight away, ask questions, share your photos and join any number of extra special interest groups to explore things like landscape, black and white and portrait photography once you’ve found your feet. Find the app on your app store.
Register for the emails for no charge and you’ll get all the lessons - one a week each Thursday for a year. Most people who join the app register for the emails as well for a gentle prompt each week to do the next lesson. Click “JOIN” below to register for the emails:
What do I need to join?
All you need is a camera with manual controls (a bridge camera is fine) and a spirit of adventure. You will only be comparing your progress to your own journey, so don’t worry about people criticising your images or being patronising - you won’t find any of that here.
Why is it free?
When she first wrote the course Emma pledged it would always be free by email. Since it started in 2016 it has grown in popularity and Emma is now able to make a very comfortable living from sales of the associated workbooks and the more advanced courses she offers. The original pledge holds true though: the entire AYWMC course is free by email for one year. There are no catches, no spam, no third party ads. If you enjoy the course, find confidence and perhaps recommend the course to a friend - that’s enough for Emma.
If you sign up you will see details of Emma’s paid offerings in the emails. If this will annoy you, don’t sign up. Emma offers:
the AYWMC app (currently £4.99 per year)
AYWMC workbooks available on Amazon for those that prefer a hard copy of the course (£20 for Book 1, £25 for Book 2)
intermediate paid courses (currently Mindful Photography, The Art of Flower Photography and Composition: Beyond the Basics)
an online camera club for AYWMC graduates
A Creative Workbook for Photographers available on Amazon
Workbooks available on your local Amazon store
How to join A Year With My Camera
Sign up for the emails (below).
Choose your community (details in the emails): access the community free on Instagram, or pay £4.99 a year for the app.
The course starts on the first Thursday of every other month, next start Jan 7 2021. While you are waiting you can join in the pre-course project Make 30 Photos (details in the email).
Join A Year With My Camera here
Register for the emails here:
