Wildlife Photography across the Water: Christmas is coming

Tuesday 9 November 2010

Christmas is coming - Santa List Part 1 for the UK

Twelve months ago we set out some Christmas suggestions for you, and as I can smugly tell you I have just about finished my Christmas shopping, I thought I would give you a few things that you might like to think about, or steer your other half across here to buy for you.

I will set out a few thoughts for the UK market this time, but will also put the Amazon US ones up on my next posting.

Last year, we covered a few hard drive options, and I guess you can never have too many. Dave and I have been fans of the offerings from Western Digital for a while. Not the fastest, but we have found they have been reliable, which is what matters. A couple of powered options, and a USB bus powered option for when mobile for you to consider. Looks like prices, as usual have dropped too,

But before we put our images on to our discs we needs some cards, and like HDD's, you never want to be short of cards. I got perilously close when I went to Gigrin recently, so another couple wont go a miss. Again, Dave and I have been great fans of the Sandisk range, in particular the Extreme 111 range, and I have never experienced a failure within them, despite them going through the washing machine in pockets on more than one occasion.

Again prices have dropped a little, but the main difference is the write speed which has now gone up to 60mB/s - great for rapid shooting of large RAW files

In my next part for the UK, I will bring you some good reference material that all wildlife photographers should use, along with some important software. Keep coming back.

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.