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It has been a while since my last blog but this time I don’t have an excuse of being lazy with my processing, it’s just that I have been away travelling to various places since the middle of January. I have had the chance to look and process some of…

At the end of January, I was guiding a trip to Lake Kerkini, the location of the beautiful Dalmatian pelican. This was my third consecutive year to Kerkini with Natures Images and I was really looking forward to returning and sharing the experience with fellow guests. I always enjoy photographing the same…

I started my photography career almost exclusively as a bird photographer yet when I look back at my wildlife interests over my life snakes, frogs and butterflies featured as strongly as birds. It’s only as I matured as a photographer that I started to spend more time working with these groups…

As a general rule I am more drawn to the wildlife and environments of the cold north than the hot tropics. Saying this, however, I have a real love affair with Costa Rica and its rainforests. There are draw backs; I am not keen on the heat and humidity of…

If you talk about Texas with most people here in the UK there are a number of things that will probably come to mind initially: cowboys, George Bush, oil, Dallas, JR…. the list goes on in terms of iconic ingredients that make up the story of this, the 2nd largest…

Whenever I embark on a trip my mind is full of expectation coupled with a little bit of apprehension. I am excited about the prospects ahead yet at the same time I worry about what the weather will do and how the photographic opportunities will unfold. Bulgaria in the winter…

The first time I went to Yellowstone I immediately knew I was going to love this place. Wilderness like it supposed to be. It has, of course, been touched by human hands in the present and the past, but it gives you the feeling it is the ultimate wild. Wolves…

During November I was running a trip to Churchill in Canada with our main target being Polar Bears. This was my second trip to this fantastic location and as my favourite subject is Polar Bears it was going to be my highlight of the year and it certainly lived up…

During late September I was running a trip for Natures Images to Finland to concentrate on the iconic predators that roam the wild forests along the eastern border of Russia. This is the third time we have run this trip but in the past we have been in early July….

During early September I was in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. I was co-running a trip with Mark Sisson and this was my third time visiting this wonderful part of the Alaskan coast. Our target for this trip was to try and capture the dramatic images of the Brown Bears…