Wildlife Photography across the Water: santa list

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Thursday, 25 November 2010

Santa List - part 3 - UK reference material

For UK based wildlife photographers, I have posted you a few key reference books that I like and have in my collection across a range of our subjects. These are vital in subject identification for those species that we do not recognise.

Until Kindle get round to a colour screen, then reference books are best as precisely that - real books.

The Birders bible

For other subjects,

A few more stocking fillers for you (or your partner to buy for you)

Martin

Wednesday, 17 November 2010

Santa List - Part 2 - Literary Matters - UK & USA

Following on from previous santa lists Part 1 UK and Part 1 USA, here are some more offerings for you to consider ahead of Christmas and get your taste buds going for some reading or reference material.

Here are some of the latest offerings that we like for Photoshop helpbooks.

Firstly for the UK

And for USA and International

And if you are a Lightroom fan

UK

USA & International

Back next time with some wildlife reference material

Martin

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Christmas is coming - Santa List Part 1 - for the USA

Following my post on Tuesday, I said I would also bring the same opportunities for the USA market.

So going with the same hard drives that both Dave and I like and use

Better deal for you guys. On the CF cards front, here are some of our favourites

Looks like you are beating us on price on that one

Maybe a few bits of software to tempt you? With the stock Adobe Photoshop CS5, full version for Windows and Lightroom 3 full and upgrade, these will give you most things you need.

Here is a great book for us wildlife photographers. I have yet to get this one, but I loved my version for CS3. Maybe someone will get it for me?

Next time, I will bring you some more useful stocking fillers - so get your partners over here and get your presents in.

Martin

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Your Santa Wish list - Part 2

So some good news for our USA readers, we are now set up on the Associates programme with Amazon.com.

With that in mind, I have set out our Santa wish list to cater for all you American Nikon users as Dave has given me some clues.

Starting off with a few stocking filler books for you

And a few bits of Nikon kit for you

Plus some of our favourite memory cards and hard drives

So send your partner on to the blog with a few subtle hints, and with the links provided it will be very easy for him or her to follow :-)

Good luck

Martin

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.