When taking wildlife photographs, I think there is always a fine balance between isolating the subject and putting the subject in context. I have some…
I haven’t seen siskins every year, so it’s a treat to see one of these birds in a photographable location. A couple of years ago the UK weather was cold enough…
If you blink, you miss it. If I hadn't been taking bursts of pictures of these great tits attracted to the food in the wood, I may have missed what happened.…
There's a certain amount of luck in wildlife photography, and whereas I've had some excellent days at RSPB Titchwell I've also had a few bleak visits. This day…
I enjoy photographing waders, but oystercatchers can present a challenge because of their black-and-white plumage, making it easy to focus but challenging to…
I think avocets are very graceful birds to watch as the feed, moving their bills from side to side in the shallow water searching for crustaceans and worms.…
I am not alone in thinking the dunnock one of our most un-appreciated little birds. From a distance this is a dull brown bird, often skulking in the undergrowth…
This is another of those birds that seem to evade my camera lens for years, then turn up again and again. I had seen no treecreepers for several years, then one…
The stonechat was one of those birds that eluded my camera for years. Finally, on holiday in Cornwall, I spotted this little fellow perched on top of a dead…
I am sure you will agree with me that the goldfinch is a very handsome bird. It ought to be easy to photograph, with the contrasting areas of plumage, but I…
In wildlife photography I think patience, perseverance and practice eventually lead to success. However there is another factor that plays a part - local…
Sometimes your subject vanishes if you so much as breathe. Occasionally the subject seems unperturbed and allows you take a multitude of photographs from which…
One of my first aims as a wildlife photographer, having retired from teaching, was to photograph great crested grebes in their courting 'dance'. I've succeeded…
In Britain the painted lady does not survive our winters, so the ones we see are either visitors from the continent or their offspring. Most years a small…
We were on holiday in the Lake District a couple of years ago and took a ride on the Steam Railway to Eskdale, where we took a circular walk incorporating a pub…
We had a lovely holiday in Crete a couple of years ago, in a quiet unspoilt village on the coast. One morning I heard a little bird singing in one of the trees…
My first view of a red kite was about 30 years ago, perched on a wall at the side of a road in Wales, at a time when they had almost died out in Britain. Since…
Various species of butterflies have good years and bad years. In the previous 7 years I had barely seen any marbled white butterflies, and only photographed…
We occasionally see redpolls over winter, but not every winter. In February 2019 they were regular visitors at Lackford Lakes Visitor Centre. I work on the…
(This post was originally a brimstone butterfly - a duplicate of another post. I had a lot of problems with the Photoblog website and could not find a way of…