Wildlife Photography across the Water

Saturday, 2 July 2011

Its holiday weekend here in the States as everybody celebrates the 4th July, The weather in NC is excellent with the weekend in the high 90's
Photographically the big news this week is the buying out of Pentax and Hasselblad, I think both offer excellent medium format cameras and i hope that will continue, I have wanted a MF camera for many years and have never got one, The Pentax 645D looks a great camera and excellent value for money at around $10k, My agency got swallowed up by the Getty corp last month and i have been going through all the paper work this week, It seems to be that time when the big boys with the money can take advantage of the economy and get some bargains-just like the housing market, We have had ours on the market for a couple of weeks and luckily have had some good interest-yesterday we had an offer which we refused but there are still a couple of interested party's so who knows how the next few months will pan out, Fingers crossed that by the end of the year we will have a new home with a few acres of land that i can make my own photographic reserve-its what dreams are made of
This week i got through the results of my wildlife photographer of the year submission, I knew that i had not made the finals as that time had past but out of 20 images all went through the first round and 12 made the semi finals, Not as good as i had hoped and not as good as last year where 17 went through to the semis and one made the final round-must try harder
Here are the 12 that made the semis

Obviously various categories, I guess it does show that you do not need to go to the ends of the earth to get good images, The caterpillar (hornworm) was taken in my garden and the cormorant was taken in the UK on a pond next to a pub, I will be interested to see the winners in the comp, I am sure there will be some controversy as usual

Dave

1 comment:

Clair Matthews7 July 2011 at 21:14
Fantastic photos! xxx
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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.