Here are some close ups of a water stick insect I photographed a while back.
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I spent a weekend last month around Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire and unsurprisingly photographed plenty of gannets. Here a re a few of the shots
This one I cloned a gannet head from the bottom corner
Its been a while since I posted a blog. Thankfully its not just because I’ve been working lots, I’ve been all over photographing wildlife too! But today post is from ‘my patch’ Wat Tyler Country Park. I looks like there was 1 or probably 2 nests in the reed beds, as families could be seen…
Earlier this month I was at EWT Chafford Gorges trying to film some fish, but while I was struggling to get any footage under the water, this cormorant was feeding closer than I’ve seen one before, so I managed a few shots. At one point is came up with weed caught on its bill. I…
A few weeks ago a kingfisher pair were nesting in front of the Marshland discovery zone hide at RSPB Rainham. I had yet to get a photo of a kingfisher that didn’t have something seriously flawed about it so I headed to the hide to get some shots. There were a couple of issues though…
Last week, at Wat Tyler CP, I came across a pair of emperor moths that had been blown into middle of the entrance of a field, where they would have gotten trodden on. So I picked them up and took them inside to show some friends and then took a few shots. These are the…
Regular readers of this blog may be aware that I have dabbled in filming underwater wildlife in situ (as well as in aquariums). A few months ago I saw Ricoh Pentax advertising their ‘Join the team’ competition, were if you could come up with a good project, they would send you a camera to carry…
Yesterday I broke my dragonfly photography duck, well today I smashed it and got an unprecedented (for me) 5 species in April. Typically in April I might get my first large red damselflies, and I may have seen 1 or 2 more species in later days of April before, but 5 species is a new…
