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More images added to the fox gallery

More images added to the fox gallery

It’s been a productive start to the year and whilst one has to spend many hours looking at screen, editing, emailing and writing it’s important to remember one must get out and take pictures. It’s surprisingly easy to forget this ...

Chris Packham next on the podcast

Chris Packham next on the podcast

Hear my interview with Chris Packham on the podcast page now Chris Packham is a broadcaster, naturalist, writer, photographer, filmmaker, conservationist and campaigner. He presents BBC’s BAAFTA award winning Springwatch, Autumnwatch and ...

BBC Wildlife Magazine Fox Feature

BBC Wildlife Magazine Fox Feature

It was great to feature alongside Kyle Moore and Sam Hobson for a new feature on Urban Foxes in this month’s BBC Wildlife magazine. The story looked at number of topics including questions about their divisive nature, how long they’ve ...

Neil Aldridge Next on the Podcast

Neil Aldridge Next on the Podcast

Parts one and two of my conservation with Neil now up on the podcast page. Neil Aldridge is a conservationist and multi award-winning photographer with more than 35 awards in major international competitions. He lectures at the prestigious Marine ...

Heath Photo Workshop | Jan 12th

Heath Photo Workshop | Jan 12th

The second of our weekend workshops on Hampstead Heath and a lovely mix of style and subjects shot on a blustery chilly day. Running these workshops all year round shows how it’s possible to capture great images in all seasons – you ...

Heath Photo Workshop | Jan 11th

Heath Photo Workshop | Jan 11th

The first workshop of 2020 and on a drab, overcast winters day the group found wonderful pockets of colour, a lovely wildlife moment on the ponds and a secret fairy door tucked away in the deep dark woods. One of the many joys running these ...

Boxing Day Hunt Meet 2019

Boxing Day Hunt Meet 2019

The annual Boxing Day hunt meet is still a huge event in the UK despite the 2004 ban. Tensions ran high when I visited on 26th December 2019 with anti-hunting groups out in force making their voices heard. The story of foxes living in the UK is a ...

Jo-Anne McArthur on the Podcast

Jo-Anne McArthur on the Podcast

Jo is a multi award-winning photographer, author and speaker. She specialises in photographing the ‘invisible animals’  – the animals we eat, wear, test on and confine, yet rarely see. Over the past 20 years Jo has worked tirelessly to ...

Heath Photo Workshop | December 14th

Heath Photo Workshop | December 14th

Another year of workshops on Hampstead Heath comes to an end and our December group got on with capturing some fantastic shots in mixed weather to say the least! I always love seeing how differently each photographer interprets the same in scene in ...