It protects my car when I launch off its roof and also saves me chopping down many grass blades with the propellers when launching on grass. It includes real human-interest stories that unfold in the ever-changing landscapes of one of the UK’s best-loved mountain landscapes – the Lake District. Since then she has become a full-time commercial photographer, capturing compelling images of products, people and places across the UK . The Herdwick Experience is set to appear in ITV's flagship Sunday morning show, Love Your Weekend, presented by Britain's favourite horticulturist, presenter, and author Alan Titchmarsh.

British Wool (Image credit: Amy Bateman - Forty Farms) What is your essential kit for the outdoors capturing domestic and wild farm life? I work so efficiently now and my workflow is speeded up because I can send huge files very, very fast and back things up quickly to cloud servers and things like that.

A Northern lass, born and bred in Manchester, Helen has been back in her home town for 13 years after working in London for The Times and a number of other national newspapers. The book reveals frank conversations about the financial challenges experienced by upland farmers; the tightrope balance of producing quality food in nature-rich protected landscapes; and the highs and lows of working in an area internationally famed for its beauty. Over the course of a year, Amy conducted frank conversations with the farmers about the financial challenge of farming; about the tightrope balance of producing quality food in a nature-rich landscape; and about the highs and lows of working in area, known, and loved internationally.

From Lake District hill farms to the Solway marshes, from commons sheep grazers to dairy ice cream makers, from sixth generation farming families to eager newcomers, each aspect of Cumbrian farming is, I hope, represented by these Forty Farms. Amy travels across the county, from Herdwick-grazed Lake District commons to the open expanses of the Solway marshes; from isolated farmsteads unchanged for generations to businesses leading the charge in innovation and sustainable farming; from world-class sheep breeders to award-winning food producers, creating a visual record of farming during what is a period of profound change.We've got 900 acres – that's a lot of land to be able to capture the landscape, farm life, farm animals, nature and food production. The rural urban divide feels wider than ever, and my hope is that this exhibition can play a part in narrowing the gulf between food producers, farmers and consumers. It’s so important to me to tell the stories of the people and landscape of Cumbria and what a spectacular location to continue the exhibition’s journey, right on the shores of Windermere. It's those elements of storytelling; your composition, the light, your leading lines, and the interaction of your subject with its environment. Not only have I photographed the farm life and agricultural elements, but I have also interviewed the farmers and had very honest, in-depth conversations.

Alongside that she also runs Farm Photography Tours from the family farm, where people can join her to learn how to capture a flavour of life on a Lakeland Farm, while staying in one of the two glamping pods. You’ll need a ticket, an annual pass or a membership card to access the display inside the museum galleries. Set in London and the Lake District in 1902, the film stars Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger as Beatrix Potter, and charts the.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 320-page hardback coffee table book Forty Farms, published by David Felton at Inspired by Lakeland. What we wanted was that the whole project had to have relevance, so the farms in there had to be have integrity. Previous roles include producing and presenting the business news at BBC Radio 5 Live and on BBC local radio across the UK, and freelancing for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, The Sunday Times, and the Financial Times.