Archive for February, 2011

Wildlife Photography in Sutherland

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In 2009 I did a 2000 mile photographic journey around Scotland and fell in love with one area, Sutherland. In April 2011 I will be going back on a mission to explore Sutherland in far more detail. The north-west of Scotland remains one of Europe’s great wilderness areas. It’s the least populated county of the [...]

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The Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

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The Amur Leopard is one of the most beautiful cats in the world, but sadly also the most endangered with just 35 left in the wild. The Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) is a coalition of 13 international and Russian NGOs that have pooled resources to support conservation of Amur leopards and tigers in [...]

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Judging depth of field for telephoto work

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I thought I’d do a quick post about depth of field, as it applies to wildlife photography because mastering it for telephoto work is something that isn’t always as easy to judge as it is for landscape or portrait work. This is especially true for those who do a lot of zoo photography and are [...]

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Wildlife Heroes

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I was talking on Twitter the other day about my wildlife photography heroes and I thought it deserved more than 140 characters to tell the proper story of who inspired me. I could rattle off a list of names of people whose work I have loved over the years and who I aspire to be [...]

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