Wildlife Photography across the Water: Fave images of last year

Monday, 9 January 2012

Fave images of last year - Final Part

October saw me get an early morning start in Bradgate Park in Leicestershire for the annual deer rut, where I was treated to some great sights and sounds

More locally to me, the Fallow Deer, while less impressive as a mighty beast still have great charm, and when the light is right makes for a pleasing image.

But with a relatively quiet Autumn and early winter period, images were few and far between. However, one other trip in late October was fruitful and that was to Westonbirt Arboretum, on a day when all the conditions came right for me, for once. So to wrap up this quick look back of my favourite images of last year for a variety of reasons, here are the last batch.

Late December saw another trip across to the Forest of Dean, but you saw those images a week or so ago, so no repeats at this time.

Right so that was 2011, and so on to 2012, and what will it bring?

Keep watching and see what Dave and I find crossing the paths of our lenses, long, wide and close up.

Cheers

Martin

2 comments:

Online virtual games10 January 2012 at 12:07
Lovely pictures and awesome photography.
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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.