Mammals
A big relief, as all the trouble of last weeks has finally paid off! I wanted to visit the fox den I had found last week, because there were fresh prints and I had even heard sounds coming from the den. Faith decided otherwise, as I received a phonecall the night before from a ranger […]
Still no photographic rewards for all the trouble I’ve been going through searching for and waiting at a couple of fox dens in the area. It appears the most promising location has been ‘cleared’ by a local hunter, which makes me very, very angry. Not only because I think foxes are beautiful animals that are blamed […]
Although I did go out to photograph this weekend, I had to devote this post to an oldie. We have finished our planning for a two week trip to the Kruger national park in South Africa in June. It has been too long since our last holiday to Zambia in 2008 and we are really excited […]
— Extra Newsflash — I am very happy and proud to announce that my abstract image of zebra stripes has won the ‘Mountain and Nature in Abstract’ category at the 2011 Memorial Maria Luisa awards. This is a growing Spanish nature photography contest that this year attracted over 11.500 images by 1.000 photographers from all […]
I have just returned from a short trip to the UK. Together with colleague Gerard Schouten, I spent two days with the Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus, Grijze zeehond) colony at Donna Nook and two days searching for daylight hunting Barn Owls (Tyto alba, Kerkuil) in Norfolk. Days spent at the seal colony were great; we were […]
The term stuck in a rut can be used figuratively to refer to a situation in which, as time progresses, the situation is unable to be changed or steered in a desired way (Wikipedia). When a photographer is stuck in a rut, it usually means he or she produces the same (kind of) images again […]