I'm very excited to announce that I have finally finished the second edition to my book! This one is fully updated for 2015 and has 200 extra pages of images, species information and photography advice. It's been 4 years since I first published Wildlife of the Farne Islands and this [...]
In this article for Landscape Photography Magazine (when it had a wildlife photography section) I looked at how to get the best out of bird photography. You can download a PDF of the full article for free here: LPM Bird Photography I was a reluctant birder. It took my first [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
