SubscribeI had a couple of friends, who happen to be equally mad about wildlife photography, visiting over the weekend.
Despite the bitter cold and frequent showers, we spent most of the time in the field and on the ground photographing birds which chose to spend the winter in London parks and ponds.
Introducing: the Big Bertha!
How...
So… how do you get photos like these?
Well… you have at least three options:
- spend weeks on preparations, set up a hide, get half eaten by mosquitoes and maybe you’ll get lucky
- be lucky, just turn up in the right place at the right time, with your camera set for the right exposure, and take...
It’s this time of the year again… Last weekend I went to the Richmond Park, to see if the park deer take the rut as seriously as their free roaming relatives. The hierarchy seems to have been established by now, so there was not a lot of fighting going on, but the dominant stags keep...
Last Sunday we got together for a quick visit in London Wetland Centre managed by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT). I can’t believe, that having lived in London for a couple of years now, I hadn’t visited this place before.
This will certainly change from now, I have a feeling I’ll become a regular in...
