Landscape photography is all about short focal lengths for wide vistas and wildlife photography requires gargantuan lenses that can pick out a grain of sand on Mars. There you go, photography neatly segregated. In this article for Landscape Photography Magazine (when it had a wildlife photography section), I explored the use [...]
A while ago I wrote a piece for Landscape Photography Magazine exploring the reasons that sunrise and sunset mean so much to us as photographers and how to get the best out of photographing in the fantastic light available at these times. "I think I have turned into one of [...]
BBC Town Moor commission: An image from a couple of weeks ago, in anticipation of the project. This shot of a black-headed gull in fantastic morning light was taken from Cow Hill on the Town Moor, looking across to the town centre. Newcastle United's St. James' Park football ground (right hand [...]
I followed this white-headed capuchin monkey for a while in forest near my accommodation at Drake Bay, Corcovado National Park Exactly a year ago, I arrived in Costa Rica's steamy, tropical bird and animal paradise. UK weather was pants, as it usually is at this time of year and [...]
Peek-a-boo, rhino style. I see you now, but will I see you in a decade? Rhinos are back in the news, for the usual bad reasons. Poaching has gone crazy again and the worry is that at the current rate, in a few years' time, more animals will [...]
Male purple-crowned woodnymph hummingbird, Costa Rica. This shot required a very fast shutter speed of 1/4000 s as well as flash. It was also manually pre-focussed Photographing birds in flight is one of the most common things to want to achieve in wildlife photography, but it can be fiendishly [...]
Admittedly this is a crap picture of a sub adult hen harrier snapped in France while I was on holiday last year. The point is that there are no English hen harriers to photograph I put this question up on a photography forum today to hopefully engender some [...]
In the firing line – badger cull trial resumed last night A change in Environment Secretary from Owen Patterson to Liz Truss hasn't slowed the momentum behind the badger cull, which resumed again last night. Scientific advice has been consistently against the effectiveness of shooting badgers to control bovine TB. [...]
Pelargoniums aren't the first place you'd think of if you were trying to locate the nest of a pair of grey wagtails. Thankfully, this pair in Northumberland don't think like this and have successfully raised a brood of chicks this year. It certainly makes nice photographs! Nice floral arrangement [...]
July 2014 cover - my green-breasted mango hummer! Did you know that hummingbirds can fly sideways, backwards and even upside down? And that they effectively go into hibernation every night to save energy? Hummingbirds are among the most colourful species in the wild kingdom, yet far from easy [...]
