{"id":515472,"date":"2026-04-06T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515472\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:50:08","slug":"photographer-picks-best-north-east-and-cumbria-picture-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515472\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer picks best North East and Cumbria picture spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northumberland, the largest protected dark sky area in Europe, is &#8220;perfect for astrophotography&#8221;, Humphreys says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can see the Milky Way, Northern Lights and just a sky full of stars on a clear night, and with the right conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bamburgh, Holy Island and Dunstanburgh Castle are among his &#8220;favourite spots&#8221;, he says, as he recalls lying on his back at them, taking in the stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You need luck and patience to get the shot, he says, but also a lot of planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This includes making sure you are in a &#8220;good location with a point of interest such as a castle or lighthouse&#8221;, he advises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northumberland, the largest protected dark sky area in Europe, is &#8220;perfect for astrophotography&#8221;, Humphreys says. &#8220;You can see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-515472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}