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During the first part of September I was in Lake Clark National Park in Alaska. I was leading a trip for Natures Images to this stunning location to see if we could photograph the coastal Grizzlies that descend here each autumn. We had timed our visit to coincide with the…

I’ve had a busy second half of the summer, away from home in South Africa and Alaska running trips and in between times exploring Namibia to put the final details to a future trip too, but during the time I was away though my latest book was formally published. The…

It’s been an unusual spell for me this summer – a few consecutive weeks at home!  Although there was a mountain of writing to be done for a whole array of articles and books, with the unusual proper summer weather I haven’t been able to resist getting the macro lenses…

Everyone has a favourite bird and for so many of us puffins tick all the right boxes. Enigmatic, comical, colourful, aggressive at times yet showing the tenderest of touches at others puffins are one of the real characters of our sea bird islands. Fair Isle is a jewel of an…

When I was putting the finishing touches to our trip programme for 2013 it dawned on me that this was going to be what my now now no longer teenage son might call a ‘bear good year’.  European Brown Bears in Finland, Grizzlies in Alaska and Polar Bears in Canada…

I’ve seen my fair share of places in Europe and beyond, but one place seems to have it all…Iceland. I don’t consider myself a landscape photographer…far from it.In fact, before my recent trip to Iceland, I’ve never ever taken a serious landscape image in my life. I have never been…

When I was a keen bird-watcher and before the photographic side of things really took over my love affair with the natural world,  I remember visiting the Austria:Hungary border back in the early 1980′s and gazing over the then imposing border fence at the distant specks that were displaying Great Bustards….

There are some amazing wildlife encounters to be found in the UK but spending time at a Gannet Colony is one of the best experiences in the Natural world. The UK can boast of supporting some of the world’s largest colonies. Some of these colonies are remote and the logistics…

We are delighted to announce that multi-award winning wildlife photographer, David Lloyd, will be leading two trips to Kenya for us in 2014. Way up among the great wildlife spectacles is the annual migration that occurs in the Masai Mara, the river crossings of the vast numbers of wildebeest being the…

It all started with a book that I’d read a few years ago: The Snow Geese by the UK author William Fiennes. He tells his story of travelling to America on a quest to follow the annual migration of Snow Geese, all the way from Texas to the northern reaches…