I'm delighted to announce that eight of my recent red kite mosaic pictures are to be used to produce greetings cards to raise money for radio-tagging of the kites. Friends of Red Kites (FoRK) commissioned me last year to take photos of a huge mosaic red kite next to several [...]
[iq-testimonials-page id='4'] Long-billed hermit hummingbird. No, it's not a seahorse Parts 1 and 2 were about getting some images out into the world after my recent photography trip to Costa Rica. Of course there are lots more images here too, but I think it's [...]
Here's my second Highly Commended image from the Audubon Society of Greater Denver's Share The View competition! It's on today's competition front page. The first Highly Commended image was a red deer stag (see below). This young grey seal was lying contentedly on Longstone Island at Northumberland's Farne Islands in [...]
The adventure continues! Here are some more images from my recent trip to Costa Rica. Here also are parts 1 and 3. Red-eyed tree frog silhouette Mantled howler monkey Keel-billed toucan in flight Rainforest and palm trees on rocky Pacific shore [...]
[Here are parts 2 and 3] In January I went to Costa Rica to take photos of the incredible wildlife. What an amazing place. I went to three different areas to see what I could find. There's so much more to explore there and the more I've photographed, the more [...]
In December's Wild Planet Photo Magazine I have two pieces; one on why the badger cull defies science and common sense, and the other on just how critically endangered tigers are. The Nov, Dec and Jan issues are all free. I'm delighted to see that the culls have failed, [...]
We've had an unusual visitor: a lesser grey shrike Lanius minor. This bird sometimes 'larders' its surplus food on a thorn to keep for later. I wouldn't like to be a butterfly or cricket when it's around! Even though it was lovely yesterday to see such an oddity in the north [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
