Wildlife

I spent a lot of time as a child trying to capture pictures of birds in flight but was also defeated by the digital camera's time delay. A new camera in my early teens finally helped me solve the problem and I've always been in particularly proud of the barn owl, pictured to the right. In spite of the overcast day the bird is frozen in flight with a fast shutter speed whilst retaining the detail of it's feathers. I think the slight offset of the bird in the pictures adds to the effect.

Two contrasting shots of arctic terns. The first a detailed shot of the bird feeding it's chick. The second slight camera blur adds to the movement of the bird displaying to arrival.

I used the clouds to frame this shot of an owl on its handler’s glove. The handler's arm appears in silhouette leaving the focus on the bird.

I've tried a number of times at animals in zoos and always been disappointed with the results because frequently the background detracts from the image. This year I used a 55 to 200 mm zoom lenses to take close up shots of the animal themselves, eliminating the background noise and trying to capture their character.