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There are so many photography competitions these days that it doesn’t mean much to call yourself an ‘award-winning photographer’, but it’s still nice to win something every now and again - if only for the ego boost!
Here are my prizewinning photos. Enjoy…
Read MoreIn these troubled times, I thought I’d give every wildlife photographer out there a chance to fantasise about a few dream destinations around the globe.
Whatever your passion, I’m sure there’s somewhere out there that would provide a great photographic getaway - once we’re all allowed out to play again…!
Read MoreWildlife photography is a money pit.
Cameras, lenses and accessories cost thousands of pounds, and most people can’t resist a piece of new kit even if they don’t need it, so a lot of it just ends up gathering dust in the basement!
However, the good news is you don’t really need that much.
The rhino is a very annoying animal: it’s so rare that you’re very unlikely to see it, and that means you almost always end up disappointed!
Read MoreJust a quick post today as I have to cycle to Wimbledon to watch the tennis!
Here are my top 20 images as measured by the number of downloads on stock photography sites since 2013.
Read MoreYes, I know that most of you wildlife photographers out there would rather be in the Masai Mara than stuck at home in suburbia, but I thought I’d just make a list of a few things you could do while waiting for lockdown to come to an end…
Read MoreThe jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third-largest in the world after the tiger and lion.
The best place to see it is in the Pantanal region of Brazil, and I had 16 sightings when I went there in September 2016.
Read MoreThe aperture is simply the size of the hole in the lens through which light passes on its way to the sensor, and the principle is similar to that of the shutter speed.
The bigger the aperture, the more light reaches the sensor and therefore the brighter the image (all other things being equal). The smaller the aperture, the less light reaches the sensor and therefore the darker the image.
Read MoreChoosing the right shutter speed for action shots is very important: too fast, and the animal will appear frozen; too slow, and you’ll end up with a blurry mess!
Here’s a quick guide to recommended shutter speed settings for different subjects and types of shot together with a few illustrative examples.
Read MoreI know this doesn’t have much to do with photography, but I thought I’d do a quiz on collective nouns for the animals I’ve seen around the world.
It’s fun to find out the proper names (particularly for safari animals), and it can be a good way of passing the time on a game drive while you’re waiting for a couple of lions to wake up…!
Read MoreThe first polar bear I ever saw had a large number 59 painted on its rump - and that was in Spitsbergen…!
Read MoreJust a quick post today listing some of the best wildlife photographers out there. Check out their websites or follow them on social media. I’m sure they’d appreciate the support…
Read MoreLeopard sightings are pretty rare, but I went on an Exodus photographic trip to Kicheche Bush Camp in summer 2018 with Paul Goldstein, and that was when I had virtually all my best sightings of leopards.
Here are a few of the lessons I learned from that experience.
Read MoreI went on an Exodus photographic trip to Spitsbergen in summer 2014 with Paul Goldstein, and I saw around a dozen polar bears.
Here are a few of the lessons I learned from that experience.
Read MoreIn 2019, I was on a game drive in Tanzania when my driver saw an elephant tusk by the side of the road. He stopped the vehicle, picked it up and put it on the back seat so that he could hand it in to the authorities.
Out of curiosity, I looked up how much that 17 kg tusk would’ve been worth on the black market: at $1,800 a kilo, it would’ve cost $30,000!
Read MoreWhen I bought my first DSLR camera and lenses, I asked a friend of mine which brand to get. He just said, “Canon or Nikon.”
As I didn’t want to buy my camera from a manufacturer of photocopiers, I ended up with Nikon…!
Read MoreTigers are the biggest cats in the world, and they kill more people globally than any other mammal. The Champawat Tiger, a tigress found in Nepal and then India, was responsible for an estimated 430 human deaths, the highest ever total for a single animal!
Read MoreEverybody seems to be selling Lightroom presets these days, but I hardly use them.
The problem with ‘adopting’ someone else’s presets is that they probably won’t do what you want them to do. Yes, they could probably make a dramatic difference to some photos, but you lose control because they are almost always bundles of adjustments, not all of which are necessary.
Read MoreI took this shot on an Exodus trip to Kicheche Bush Camp in 2018 with Paul Goldstein.
Paul’s a great fan of the slow pan to heighten the sense of energy in action shots, and I’m now his disciple!
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