I recenlty got back from an extended period on leave in Europe and thought I had better get up to date with some post-prod work. Here are a few shots of a wild male kestrel which were taken from Danny Green’s hide in Worcestershire. I very rarely these days take advantage of someone else’s hard work …
At the outset of my trials and tribulations with the field studio set up, I realised early on that I’d need a set of radio triggers to fire my twin manual flashes, since once the rear unit is sitting behind a thick piece of opaque perspex its infrared function ceases to work (IR works fine indoors of …
I have spent quite a bit of time whilst recovering from my shoulder surgery getting the kit together to start a project using a macro field studio and I intend developing this work during this coming spring and summer. I have had a couple of sessions with amphibians over the past few weeks, and this morning spent several hours …
I have spent the last couple of days catching up with some long overdue filing, writing and post production. I came across this little image which reminded me of a grand camper van trip we made a few years back to the Norfolk coast. The campsite overlooked this stunning view across a wonderful salt marsh. The …
A nice early morning session at my garden pond with some emerging common darters. There has been a massive emergence of this species during summer 2013 as I have counted well over 40 exuvia this season. This is unusual; whilst this species of dragonfly have bred in the pond in the past, numbers of emerging insects …
Spent a wonderful week in Preston Montford, Shropshire in the company of John Bebbington and a great bunch of fellow macro photographers, photographing inspects. Weather was – unusually – perfect in that winds were light and the sky hazy. The weather changed only at the end of the last day, when the wind picked up. We …
The target for the last few sessions with the foxes has been to get some shots of the animals with food. Rabbits do the trick, but owing to the small size of the site and the presence of nearby close cover, the prey items have to be firmly fixed to the ground. I realised this fairly …
Managed to get out this morning to photograph the common but rather beautiful, newly emerged 6-spot burnet months at a site I have worked for a while now for slow worms and adders, up on the Haldon Ridge and about 10 minutes from my home. It is a roadside waste site and is botanically quite …
I took a friend and her two boys out this evening for some wildlife watching and you really could’nt plan for this! The vixen and cubs are now so relaxed that they came right up to the camera and to the visitors – spellbinding. The boys loved it. The vixen and cubs were so …
Another wonderful session with ‘my’ foxes this evening (I am starting to think of them as my friends – strangely!! I have been trying for a few days now to get some shots of the vixen and cubs interacting, and they really decided to play ball this evening. The main cub in the picture is …