Welcome. This web site contains most of my nature photographs taken over the last 15 years. Many of my trips were with my wife Caroline or my brother Adam (his photos are here). More recently we have been joined by my nephew Orlando, who also designed our websites. His photos are here.
Equipment
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(2003-2007) The oldest photos here were taken with a Canon G3 compact digital camera.
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(2008-2011) I followed this with a Ricoh GX100, another compact camera.
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(2012-2023) I then moved to a Sony A77 and A77 II DSLR cameras. These actually had a fixed semi-translucent mirror and an APS-C sized sensor. For bird photography I started with the Sony 70-300 mm lens then moved to the Sony 70-400 mm. I also used a Sony 24-50mm and Sigma 100mm macro lenses, but found swapping lenses awkward. For a while I tried carrying two bodies, but in the end opted for using a small Olympus TG-5 compact camera for wide angle shots.
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(2023-) My latest camera is a mirrorless Sony A7 iv, which I use with a Sony 300mm f2.8 lens, usually with a ×2 or ×1.4 teleconverter. I find this combination a lot lighter than the Sony 200-600 mm lens I had before. I also use a Sony 70-200 mm f4 lens for semi-macro, a Sony 24-70 mm f2.8 as a standard lens and a Sony 14 mm f1.8 for wide angle.
See Trips, Blogs and Groups
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Abingdon, Culham & Sutton Courtenay 11th July 20257 trip -
Berkshire Downs 27th June 202511 trip -
Ham Wall & Shapwick Heath 3rd May 2025trip -
April 2025: Yorkshire 28th April 2025trip -
New Forest 29th March 2025trip -
January 2025: Netherlands 20th January 20251 trip -
September 2024: Norfolk 29th September 2024trip -
July 2024: Devon & Cornwall 30th July 20246 trip -
July 2024: Bentley Wood 6th July 2024trip -
June 2024: Isle of Wight 29th June 2024trip -
May 2024: Yorkshire 23rd May 2024trip -
December 2023: Yorkshire 19th December 2023trip -
Autumn 2023: Devon & Cornwall 2nd October 20231 trip -
May 2023: Orkney 15th May 2023trip -
Farmoor 14th March 2023trip -
Spring 2022: Scotland 3rd April 2022trip -
September 2021: Norfolk 9th September 2021trip -
May 2021: Pembrokeshire 14th May 2021trip -
February 2020: Mexico 12th February 2020trip -
Christmas 2019: Isle of Wight 24th December 2019trip -
October-November 2019: Okavango Delta 2nd November 20191 trip -
April 2019: Coto Donana & Extremadura 21st April 2019trip -
Summer 2018: Shetland 2nd June 2018trip -
March 2018: The Gambia 16th March 2018trip -
Autumn 2017: Georgia 1st October 2017trip -
December 2016: Kerala 17th December 2016trip -
September 2016: Gibraltar & Tarifa 18th September 2016trip -
May 2015: Poland 24th May 2015trip -
April 2015: Romania 20th April 2015trip -
September 2014: Sweden 8th September 2014trip -
May 2014: New Forest 18th May 2014trip
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April 2014: Dovedale 18th April 2014trip -
January 2014: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh & Rajasthan 24th January 2014trip -
September 2011: Bulgaria 23rd September 2011trip -
July 2010: Azores 31st July 2010trip