Today I ran a wildlife photography workshop at Anglers Country Park near Wakefield. The workshop consisted of a couple of hours of theory looking at gear, exploring advantages of certain types of lenses and cameras as well as looking at the fundamentals of composition and depth of field. Following the classroom session, we went outside...
The marbled whites were at their best today at Brockadale YWT reserve. This is one of the best places to see marbled white butterfly in Yorkshire as it is fairly small and the butterflies are concentrated in a single area. I had a productive couple of hours here today and managed some really nice images...
I drove up to the North York Moors today to try and photograph ring ouzels at a spot I know well and although I found the birds, they would not reveal the nest location. Both birds were in the area of the nest with food in their beaks but despite my being at least 500yds...
I was out with the Wakefield Naturalists’s Society today for the first of the summer field meetings and we had a good trip to Hetchell Woods near Thorner. As a group, we notched up some good sightings including marsh harrier and red kite passing over and also a hornet – not a common species locally....
Looking through my recent images of European cuckoo, I think that this one is my favourite so far. I’m drawn to the way the line of the cuckoo follows the line of the branch and creates a symmetry and a lead into the image, The cuckoo is a magnificently beautiful bird that seems to be...
