https://youtu.be/ieGatwcxf_0?si=jXdgBoYUivJXTP4V

I have another printed article in the excellent Outdoor Photography magazine – this time it’s a six-page ‘how to’ on dragonflies.  You can read the full article here:

I am very pleased to announce a new print article on insect photography was published earlier this spring in that excellent magazine Outdoor Photography.  You can read the full article...

I was incredibly honoured recently to have been asked to join the Royal Photographic Society’s distinctions process as an assessor on the Natural History panel for Associate and Fellowship distinctions....

Following a successful application to the Royal Photographic Society in October 2022 for my Natural History Fellowship, I have written about my distinction journey in this months’ copy of The...

I am very pleased to announce a new on-line article of mine entitle How to Photograph Dippers was published recently on the excellent Nature TTL website – do check it...

Join Andrew McCarthy on a series of nature photography courses based in Devon during summer 2022. Each workshops will be aimed at ‘improver’ photographers who want to get to grips...

I am very pleased to announce a new on-line article on my UK bat photography experience was published recently on the excellent Nature TTL website – do check it out...

‘Summer still seems a long way off at the moment, but I am now starting to set up dates for spring 1:1s and workshops on insects. In the meantime here...

We are now nearly mid-way through January and it will only be another few weeks before the dippers on my local stretch of the River Teign begin to start pairing...

I am a UK-based ecologist and nature photographer who has been surveying bats for over 20 years, and photographing them in flight since spring 2020. My UK bat survey license...

After what seems like a very long winter indeed, spring is finally making its presence felt here in Devon, and my thoughts are finally turning to insect photography again! One...

I have held a licence from Natural England* to survey and photograph bats since 2001, but for various reasons I had never fulfilled my long-held aspiration of photographing these nocturnal,...

I have been spending time recently catching up with the Dartmoor dippers that I started working with in 2019. This article on the Olympus Image Space blog summarizes my approach...

I was playing around last night with a new function in Photoshop that significantly increases resolution of the original RAW file – effectively by four times. It is very simple...

I was really pleased to have had this short article on last years’ bat photography adventures published in the February 2021 edition of Outdoor Photographer magazine.  The article tells how...

I produced this video on macro stacking for the Guild of Photographers for their ‘Creative Light’ workshop day on the 27th November 2020. It gives a simple overview of the...

This video was created for a presentation for the Guild of Photographers. It contains an overview of the techniques and equipment I use to capture images of insects with Olympus...

I have recently been taking night time shots of local bats in flight. Click the link below to see the full Bats In Flight gallery.

Really nice to have had a decent sized article published in spring 2019 in the venerable UK photo magazine Amateur Photographer – this time on how to photograph spring insects....

My quick guide to photographing butterflies was recently published in the April 2019 edition of Outdoor Photographer. Click on the image below to view it as a PDF.

I was delighted to learn today that one of my macro images (a great green bush cricket) has been included as the June image in the 2019 Mineral Products Association...

I am delighted to have won the ‘Hidden Britain’ category in the 2018 British Wildlife Photography Awards with this stacked image of a nursery web spider.  This, plus a couple of other...

Confused about where to begin with extreme macro stacking? I know from personal experience that It can be really hard to know where to begin with ‘extreme macro’ photography (i.e....

Just received notice that one of my grass snake images is the August image in the 2018 ‘Quarries and Nature’ calendar.  Nice to have two successful entries in three years.