Wildlife Photography across the Water: Reviews

Tuesday 17 March 2009

Reviews - Your feedback to us

Just a short post from me today.

Many thanks to everybody who took part in our poll that closed today. Some surprising results that always goes to show that what you think people want is not always the case.

The overwhelming majority of you, at 80% and 67% respectively want to hear more from us on Techniques and Tips, and Gear we use and Abuse subjects.

So with that in mind, we will look to tailor to fit these in more regularly than we have.

There was a pretty even split on Reviews, Trip Reports and Hardware & Software.

Surprisingly, our 'From the Archives' was the least popular with just 5% response on these. Maybe we have just pitched these incorrectly, as it was the intent that we could share some images from our older trips and interweave some good images with location information and any relevant tips or techniques to that type of photography.

So we will try to do some more of what you want.

I will be back on Thursday with a Tips and Techniques on how I post process sharpen, as I know this is one area that a number of people want to hear about. Dave and I do things slightly differently, but with similar results I believe, so you will be able to see over a period of time a couple of options that you may like to try.

If there are any other areas that we have not thought of that you want to hear about, please do leave us some comments, we would be most pleased to hear from you.

Martin

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Bio's

David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.