Happy Christmas from TarajiBlue. We hope Santa stuffs your stocking full of photography treats 🙂 We hope you all have a well deserved break and enjoy the festive period with your nearest and dearest. See you in 2012 for more…
Into The Arctic from Alistair Knock on Vimeo. In 2010 we were fortunate enough to seize an opportunistic half price holiday to the Arctic with Gap Adventures. What we witnessed in Spitsbergen and Greenland was at once life enhancing and bewildering. The memories we have are re-lived by us regularly and…
As much as I adore the manatees, elephants and big cats of the this world (heck, I have even become a twitcher), there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a spider. Not only are they incredibly intricate and stunningly beautiful to photograph, they…
I like this shot – it doesn’t pretend to be anything. It’s what it is … a captive owl’s failed attempt to escape. It is symbolic and representative and I think it works really well in monochrome. I even like the…
At the 2011 Wild Photos conference all speakers were asked to reveal the image they wish they’d taken. I thought this was a great idea and one I’d start to emulate on this blog. Quite appropriately, I start this series with an image…
I really am not! The landscape is nothing more than an environment or scene setting for my wildlife photography. However, I do love the thrill of wildlife photography, the adrenaline rush it provides and the challenges that come with photographing wildlife.…
Can anyone help us identify this bird? Taken in Tortuguero, Costa Rica, he’s a wetlands bird but, to date, we’ve been unable to identify him via any wildlife guides. We are wondering if he’s a juvenile Anhinga? Though the…
It’s come earlier than expected this year – the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition has opened for 2012 submissions TODAY! The deadline for submissions is February 23rd 2012. It’s a very worthwhile competition – one of the most prestigious in its…
If you haven’t yet visited the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition (London), or visited its website, you might not have had the privilege of seeing Daniel Beltra’s winning portfolio of images taken over BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April…
I’ve recently been exploring the idea of movement within photography. It was a very dominant theme at this year’s Wild Photos 2011 conference and at the 2011 Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, so I have been inspired to give it a…