A new house guest
Meet our latest house guest – Mr Fox. After 3 months of observing the garden at night via our remote camera trap and beginning to lose hope of seeing any foxes, he turned up. What’s more – he was a…
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Springwatch has arrived in our garden
We’ve recently treated ourselves to a new toy… an infrared camera trap. Tonight was a trial run with it, and we are utterly delighted with the results… our first ever night time image at 1:57am this morning was Mr Hedgehog…
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Elephants are one of nature’s greatest, but most gentle giants. As humans we show an incredible lack of respect to these great mammals, failing to recognise their majesty and grace. Poachers, drought and man-made boundaries are threatening the lives of…
Blacker Than Black
I love photographs that you don’t understand immediately. Ice? Scree? Rock? Where are we? St Johnsfjorden / Prins Karls Forland in Svalbard. So what? Deception Island in Antarctica looks a dull grey but is ice govered in dust. This is…
Photo: Alone With A Smile
Sunset explodes over a Swedish lake, illuminating the sky and mirror-still water surface. Have a great and productive Sunday everyone!
Spring hasn’t quite sprung just yet…but it’s on its way
Spring is here, but not that you’d know it with the grey skies today. The heating is back on and the jumpers haven’t quite been stored away yet. So let’s focus on what’s yet to come…glorious long warm nights, stunning…
Review: The Nick Brandt Trilogy
This is a retrospective review of Nick Brandt’s three photography books published between 2005 and 2013, where unusually I will consume them all in one sitting. The final chapter arrived on my doorstep today (9 November 2013) and as it’s…
Love, Fear, Confusion
Two Arctic hares on the rocky hillside overlooking Blomsterbukten, eastern Greenland. This shot is important to me because of what happened before, and illustrates why wildlife photographers need to understand nature perhaps more than they need to understand photography. Arriving…
Screw you modern conveniences…getting back to nature and loving it!
Welcome to Kolaybyn Eco Lodge in Sweden. Granted this place is not for everyone… • You sleep on wooden bed in a wooden hut• You have to walk to the composting toilets in the dark• You have birds flying into…
Animals supporting Movember
I love that animals are getting into the mood of Movember and are supporting their very own incredible facial hair 🙂