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Nikon D4 camera long term field test review

By Kaleel|2018-10-24T19:54:26+01:006 Nov 2013|Categories: Camera reviews, Equipment, Gear reviews, Magazine articles, Magazines, Photography writing|

If you're looking for an unbiased, long-term field test of a Nikon D4, look no further! I've owned this exceptional camera for a year and a half now and November 2013's Wild Planet Photo Magazine has the full 14 page Nikon D4 review. The first three issues of this new [...]

Fishing for Photographers!

By Kaleel|2018-10-24T19:54:26+01:003 Oct 2013|Categories: Fish, Fishing, Magazine articles, Magazines, Media, North East England, Northumberland, Photography writing|Tags: fish, Fishing, fishing for photographers, Landscape & Wildlife Photography Magazine, Landscape Photography Magazine, Louis de Bernières, magazine article, Notwithstanding|

Fishing for Photographers? Louis de Bernières' Girt Pike? What's got into the man this month? Well, yeah, fair point. But in my defence, I've often mused to myself on the patience, preparation, solitude and natural wild spaces that wildlife photography and fishing share and I thought I'd muse a bit [...]

BWPA British Wildlife Photography Awards 2013 – short-listed

By Kaleel|2018-10-24T19:54:27+01:0017 Sep 2013|Categories: Birds, BWPA, Farne Islands, Grey seals, Mammals, North East England, Northumberland, Partridges, Photography competitions, Wildlife|Tags: 2013, Alectoris rufa, British Wildlife Photography Awards, BWPA, BWPA competition, competition, grey seal, Halichoerus grypus, mammal, marine mammal, photography, photography competition, red-legged partridge, seal, short-list, whiskers|

From the several thousands of images submitted to the BWPA 2013 competition, I managed to squeeze two into the final short-list of 300. I just missed out on an award, but hey, I was pretty chuffed to get this far! Subsequently, the seal image won a highly Commended award 🙂 Here [...]

Notes on a summer photographing swallows
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Notes on a summer photographing swallows
Birds, Camera trap, Flash with wildlife photography, France, Northumberland, Swallows, Technique, Tips, Wildlife

Notes on a summer photographing swallows

By Kaleel|2022-12-09T18:58:20+00:009 Sep 2013|Categories: Birds, Camera trap, Flash with wildlife photography, France, Northumberland, Swallows, Technique, Tips, Wildlife|Tags: barn swallow, bird flash photography, bird photography, birds, birds in flight, camera trap, Eurasian swallow, flash photography, flash photography with birds, flash photography with wildlife, Flex, flying birds, flying swallows, France, hirundine, Hirundo rustica, Loire Valley, Nikon SB800 flash, Nikon SB900 flash, Northumberland, PocketWizard, speedlight, strobe, swallow, swallow photography, TT1, TT5, UK, wildlife, wildlife flash photography, wildlife photography, wireless flash photography|

It's an uplifting experience to be heralded into the office by two duelling robins, each belting out a bright song from a nearby tree, with me receiving a glorious stereo mix in the middle. It's not robins I have in mind this morning though. I've spent a good part [...]

Summer on the Farne Islands

By Kaleel|2018-10-24T19:54:28+01:006 Sep 2013|Categories: Birds, Common scoters, Dolphins, Farne Islands, gannets, Great black-backed gulls, Grey seals, guillemots, Herring gulls, Lesser black-backed gulls, Mammals, Manx shearwaters, North East England, Northumberland, puffins, Rock pipits, Seabirds, Wildlife, Workshops & safaris|Tags: Alca torda, Anthus petrosus, Arctic tern, Atlantic puffin, Bamburgh Castle, black-backed gull, black-legged kittiwake, bottlenose dolphin, common scoter, dolphin, Farne Island, Fratercula arctica, gannet, great black-backed gull, grey seal, guillemot, gull, Herring gull, Inner Farne, juvenile gannet, kittiwake, Larus argentatus, Larus marinus, lesser black-backed gull, lighthouse, Longstone lighthouse, manx shearwater, Melanitta nigra, Morus bassanus, north east England, northern gannet, Northumberland, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, puffin, Puffinus puffinus, razorbill, Rissa tridactyla, rock pipt, scoter, seagull, seal, shag, silhouette, Staple Island, Sterna paradisaea, tern, Tursiops truncatus, Uria aalge|

Puffin Precarious pipit As the rain and temperature fall, further bending the already berry-laden rowan I've just parked under, I'm wondering whether that's it for summer this year. Mind, what a summer it's been! Rarely have we had such good weather in continuous dollops. It's certainly [...]

Wild Angle

By Kaleel|2018-10-24T19:54:29+01:002 Sep 2013|Categories: Magazine articles, Magazines, Photography writing, Technique|Tags: fish-eye lens, wide angle lens, wide angle photography, wildlife photography|

I haven't yet had a chance to blog this year's eight Farne Islands trips or my close-up swallows project from the summer, but now I'm freshly back from France (I actually saw a real, live hen harrier!) it's time to get out your wide angle lenses for the animals. September's [...]