Wildlife Photography across the Water: 700 up

Wednesday 14 July 2010

700 up

This is our 700th post since we started the blog back in January 2009. Time has flown by and we have still managed at least one post a day for every day since we started.

It seemed very appropriate on this milestone that I should have spent wonderful 24 hours in Dave's company here in Stratford. Catching up on life, photography, families, wildlife, Guinness, music and having a good old laugh.

We made Dave feel at home by popping into the Butterfly farm where it was very hot and very humid, in case he was missing North Carolina at this time of year. It was great to see the Nikon D3S and 200-400 lens first hand. They are certainly stunning bits of kit, and still only can Canon looking longingly at that high ISO performance.

I put the moth trap out last night but the take was tiny, but at least we got an Elephant Hawk and a new species, which I have yet to identify.

Back with some images tomorrow

Martin

1 comment:

Amila Kanchana14 July 2010 at 22:37
Congrats! Keep it up!
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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.