Yesterday, the exhibition of pictures I've taken for the Flight of the Red Kite project opened at Gateshead's Civic Centre. Below is today's Newcastle Journal with an article by Tony Henderson and there are better quality versions of some of the images here. today's Journal article by Tony Henderson [...]
It's not all nature photography: I'm delighted to see the photos of the lovely people at LD:NorthEast from the October shoot are now up on their new web site: dev.ldne.org.uk.
Now then, that's a big bird! Red kites have been an important thread running through my wildlife photography for years. The RSPB originally commissioned me to get shots of the end of the reintroduction project here in the north east. Once the reintroduction had completed, the project handed over the [...]
Yesterday I popped into Moorbank Botanical Garden in Newcastle with Alan Hewitt, Trai Anfield and Trai's friend, Helen. We were sussing out the possibility of doing Hawk's Head Photography workshops. I loved the fact that it was tropical inside and snowing outside! Here are a few of the images:
What's with the long face! Horse portraiture (of the horses themselves and with their owners) is something I've been thinking about doing for quite some time. I've admired the work of photographers such as Tim Flach and Matthew Seed and wanted to get away from the standard look of event photography in [...]
I got a call from Byker yesterday that there were waxwings eating the berries on the heavily laden trees there. Lo and behold, there they were: about 60 waxwings, as well as several red-wings munching away on the red berries. Waxwings are beautiful birds and come here in winter most years from [...]
And now for something completely different! A portrait of my good friend, Martin yesterday. I don't often do portraits, but love the challenge of studio lighting every now and then.
CALLING ALL NINJAS!! We're doing another professional photo-shoot at BSBB on 11 Nov. Mini dragons, kids, adults, ladies, gents, weapons and winners from the World Champs (steady on guys!) welcome. See this page or posters at BSBB for details. Could be a great Christmas present idea! Geri Sword changing a light bulb [...]
Inquisitive badger Meles meles, Northumberland © KaleelZibe.com - Nikon D3, 600mm, 25/sec, f4, ISO 6,400, -1 ev. Do not use this image without permission. 'We could be wiping out half the population of badgers in the UK for absolutely no reason at all' - Mark Carwardine. The government has seen fit [...]
Alan and I have been out squirrelling! With a bag of hazelnuts, lots of coffee, a bit of ingenuity and a lot of patience...here are my efforts: Red squirrel with hazel nut, Sciurus vulgaris, Northumberland © Kaleel ZibeNikon D3, Nikon 16mm fish-eye, 1/640 sec, f16, ISO 3200, +0.7, [...]
