Wildlife Photography across the Water: Review of the Year Part 4

Friday 25 December 2009

Review of the Year Part 4 - April

So if you are reading this on Christmas Day - well Happy Christmas.

Looking back to April, I can see Dave had a great trip to the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee and reported the trip here, here and here. I stayed closer to home and had a day out in Gloucestershire with my buddy Robbie.

On Tips and Techniques we covered on board flash here and here, and I also showed how to use the camera technology to capture close up shots of butterflies when they are on plants flapping about in the wind.

I have loved my Samsung netbook that I bought back in February - It has been a brilliant tool and I thank Joe Fox for flagging these up to me earlier in the year. I showed in this post how to screen colour balance when you are working with less than 1024 x 768 pixel screen resolution, although I subsequently found how to get round that which I will flag up in following year review parts.

We talked about how to do your research to find your subjects for yourself, rather than get others to do your field work here.

On the gear front we covered graduated filters, circular polarisers and also the Think Tank Security bag which is vital for those times when you need to fly with your gear.

April also saw me get my DPAGB award which I covered here.

Stat porn for April - 3611 page views, from 604 unique vistors from 28 countries

Hope you are enjoying your Christmas day wherever you are - back tomorrow with the review of May

Martin

No comments:

Post a Comment

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.