Wildlife Photography across the Water: Review of the Year Part 8

Friday, 1 January 2010

Review of the Year Part 8 - August

So as we welcome in the New Year and a new decade, I will carry on with our year review and so into August we go.

We did a couple of posts on back button focussing here and here - this is a technique that I have been using for a number of years now and immediately set any camera that I use to this setting. It is a great feature for wildlife photographers.

My garden was a source of many images for me this year and a couple of the posts covered this here and here.

Dave did a bit on the Sigma 180 macro lens here and showed how images look when using different perspectives.

We had two guest photographers in August, Tony Wharton and Mike Lane, who shared a number of images with us.

I did a bit on wildlife introduction philosophy here, which I had hoped would spark some more comments and interaction, but sadly we only received one comment - Thanks Peter.

Dave shared with us his close encounter with death as he came up face to face and close with Black Widow spiders.

Stat porn for August, 3,400 page vists, 830 unique visitors from 50 countries.

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.