Garden Bird Photography Workshops
I am running workshops for photographing garden birds, giving tuition on techniques and exposure. I can guarantee pictures of the regular visitors to my garden at very close quarters. I have a large feeding station giving excellent opportunities to photograph garden birds such as great spotted woodpecker, occasionally tree creeper, tree sparrow, nuthatch, robin, wren, dunnock, goldfinch, greenfinch, occasionally long-tailed tit, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, red legged partridge, pheasant, wood pigeon and brambling in winter. Numbers are limited to two photographers only and and the...
read moreRoyal Photographic Society Scottish Print Exhibiton success
It was selection day today for the Scottish Region of the Royal Photographic Society’s Annual Print Exhibition. The exhibition has a total of 40 prints and travels to venues throughout Scotland. Member gather in Edinburgh and select the images. The selection process is rigorous, members are allowed to take a maximum of four images but only allowed to have one print in the exhibition. I was fortunate enough to have one of mine selected. It is of the boxing brown hares I took a couple of weeks ago.
read moreRoe Deer at Stichill near Kelso in the Scottish Borders
I haven’t seen to many roe deer so far this year so when I came across this small group I decided to spend some time trying to get some pictures of them. There was two bucks and two does, the bucks were in velvet and were quite jumpy from the start. The deer were sitting near to the hedgerow, I was watching them for some time before they jumped into the field. They were spooked by a hare which came through the hedge, they watched it run past them and then they started to feed on the young crop in the field. They browsed for a while and moved across the field to the hedgerow at the rear...
read moreBrown Hares in the late afternoon
I was driving at the back of Mersingham Farm late this afternoon which is near to Coldstream. The sun was setting and I came across a couple of brown hares in a field next to the roadside. I took my camera out and got a little closer to them. The light was dying, I used an ISO setting of 1000 and a shutter speed of 1/100sec at f5.6 and with a little extra care managed to get these images…….
read morePuffins and Seabird Workshops Farne Islands
Come and photograph one of Britain’s truly great wildlife events, the breeding birds colonies on the Farne Islands, arctic terns, common terns, sandwich terns, razorbills, guillemots, shags and of course the sea parrot or tommy noddy as the locals call, the atlantic puffin. Most of the birds can be seen and photographed at very close quarters. The workshop will show you the techniques to photograph the birds in their breeding habitat, in flight in addition to the technical requirements for successful wildlife photography, exposure compensations, control of shutter speeds and aperture...
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