Lightroom 4 Beta Announced – First Impressions

Mark Wilson has just published his first impressions on the Lightroom 4 beta on the new WildPhotoForum Digital Darkroom blog. There are lots of new features in this release including new video options, Maps (think geo-tagging) and Books modules and some extensive changes to the basic adjustments in Develop. Check out the link to the first [...]

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Poppies

Poppies are the most beautiful of flowers. I always keep an eye out for them in summer; I am forever cheered by the sight of a Poppy by the roadside, or in a field margin. I haven’t seen as many Poppies as usual this year but a couple of weeks ago, I managed to find some very [...]

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Setting the Exposure

If you want to learn all about setting the exposure when photographing birds in flight, check out Part 2 of my Bird in Flight Photography Tutorial, which I’ve published today. It took longer to write than I anticipated because I kept thinking of yet more information that I found hard to come by when I [...]

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How to Photograph Birds in Flight

Part 1 of an in-depth tutorial on how to photograph birds in flight is now available. I’ve been working on this for a few weeks and it’s grown into a very comprehensive guide, full of advanced tips for serious bird in flight photographers. As it has grown so much, I have decided to break it [...]

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Green Photography

Is there such a thing as green photography? More specifically, what about green nature photography? Did the move from film to digital make any difference in how green photography is? One of the great things about being a nature photographer is that certain aspects of it feed my ravenous guilt complex. I am a hugely [...]

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Water Voles

I am fortunate to live within a moderate distance of a pretty stable population of Water Voles (Arvicola terrestris) and I managed to capture some interesting images of them last Summer. Water Voles are also known as the River Rat and if you look at the first image, you can see why: perched in the [...]

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Brown Hares

The Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) is one of my favourite British wildlife species because they are so dynamic. I am surrounded by open countryside in which Brown Hares thrive, so I frequently encounter them when I am out with my camera, or walking the dog. Popularly, March is considered to be the best month in [...]

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Nature Photography Blog Photo Gallery Published

I’ve just published a natural history photo gallery that contains all of the images which I have published in my nature photography blog. This gallery will be updated whenever I publish a new article on this website so that you can get to my most recent images quickly and easily (avoiding the blurb if you’re [...]

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Barn Owl Encounter

I had an opportunity to watch a Barn Owl (Tyto alba) last weekend, whilst staying in Norfolk, with friends. It’s one of a pair raising chicks in the vicinity of where we stayed, and it wasn’t the least bit shy. On our first encounter with this Barn Owl, it almost flew into us as we [...]

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Leucistic Red Kites

Whilst visiting Gigrin Farm last week, I was fortunate to see the two Leucistic Red Kites (Milvus milvus) that live in the vicinity. Leucistic birds have largely white plumage but they also have patches of normal colour pigmentation. The difference is quite startling – compare the birds in these images with my mantling Red Kite [...]

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