This is a technical post about what to do when (before!) equipment fails and how to work around difficulties in non-urban locations. Earlier this year we travelled to Kruger National Park with a small group and spent a fantastic two…
One of my favourites from our recent trip to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, two swallow-tailed bee eaters spent half an hour flitting around the trees surrounding our vehicle in the Kalahari. Unmissable streaks of colour about 20cm long, bee-eaters are a…
The white rhino. Near threatened according to IUCN, but the IUCN don’t work in Kruger. In 2005, 13 rhino were poached. In 2007, 13 rhino were poached. In 2009, 122. In 2011, 448. Between January 2010 and May 2012, 991…
I put ‘losing’ in quotes because no submission, no photograph can be counted as a loss. These beautiful wild animals that roam the earth in playful groups, caring for each other and their families, protecting their own species, so animated…
We went to a talk by Doug Allan (one of the key BBC cameramen for Planet Earth etc) last night in Manchester and he pointed out how humbling it is to stare in another animal’s eyes, and interestingly that *we*…
I wanted to expand a little on a comment I left on Google+ in response to David Bowden and Max Huijgen about the peculiar way this vast internet has very little space. There are many excellent highly saturated photographs on…
I often forget I’ve only been to New York once, back in 2005 on the way back to the UK from a West Coast road trip. This image sums the place up to me – walk, go, go, do it…
I know this is a terribly dull topic for many, so my excuse is that this is a list for my own future reference when preparing for a trip. We have two smallish backpacks to cram all this into (Lowepro…
Tonight I watched the International Space Station fly above York once again in a perfect arc for around 3 minutes. We all have our individual problems and I know some have many more than others, but we can all look…
I’ve set myself a non-committed, loosely monitored, non-binding frequency photography project. Objective is 5 photographs per week, not necessarily posted on the same day they were taken, and the subject will be: Sky. I just missed the most recent full…