Red Kite

Going through old images looking for images for Alamy and found this from February 2010. Shame about the background.

It hasn't resized well, looks very soft, the original is a lot better

Gigrin..

EDIT: Size changed, somehow its was huge when clicked on...

Seal Sanctuary

Few images from a very wet Seal Sanctuary at Gweek. Good Cornwall Wildlife Trust field trip but just a tad wet/dark. The 7D has passed weatherproofing quality control! No award winning images but a bit of fun and a good test of weatherproofing and High ISO capabilities of both 1D2 and 7D

^^1D MKII, 400mm ISO3200, 1/100s

^^1D MKII, 400mm, ISO3200, 1/100s

^^7D, 17-40@17, ISO 12800 (NR) 1/250s,

^^7D, 400mm, ISO1000, 1/320

Curlew

Took this back in December, the same time as the Purple Sandpipers. Something a bit different to a normal bird image. Going to try to do more like this through out this year, but concentrating on behaviour, light and habitat shots (a bit like wildlife meets photojournalism) where the bird doesn't have to be the main subject, shooting more for stock libraries.

Such as

This and this

More of Andrew's stunning work here: http://www.andrewparkinson.com/

Waxwing in Shropshire

Blog has been very quiet lately, mainly due to 300 Grey Phalarope images disappearing from the hard drive, Dont think they downloaded properly and I then formatted the card so they're gone (and so is it) and every time im on the computer im getting images on Alamy to build up my stock, so haven't had much time to sort out images for my blog.

So above is just one image ive managed to edit, not to sharp but the light was bad due to the snow!

Next will more than likely be Dog images as im doing Pet portraits in Photography at College at the moment

Pale-bellied Brent Goose at Penzance

Another bird worth another try, very approachable
ISO 2500, 1/50, dark!

"Artistic blur" 1/40s

Grey Phalarope at Newlyn

Terrible light yesterday but still managed a few record shots. Will try again soon when weathers better (if it stays)

Garden Birds in Shropshire

Balearic Shearwaters off Carbis Bay

Failed attempt at filming Balearic Shearwaters...

Waxwings at Ellesmere

All the video I managed, concentrated on photo's beacuse they were very mobile! Photos soon

Merry Christmas

I haven't managed to fully sort through all of the images from Shropshire yet so I will get them up sometime after Christmas. I have some average shots of Waxwings, low light didn't help.

Thank you to the followers, for all comments and views, Its greatly appreciated!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!

Something a little different to a Robin in the snow image

17-40mm, at 17mm

Assorted Gulls on Carbis Bay Beach

Just a few gulls on Carbis bay beach late afternoon and yes, complete with crappy sound (definitely external mic/sound recorder after xmas!).

Ive got some flight video of the Balearic Shearwaters which im about to edit but there is a lot of dodgy panning so dont expect anything decent if i do upload anything!

Still 100's/1000's birds offshore so if you haven't been yet, what are you waiting for!!

off to Shropshire on Friday until the day before Christmas eve so not sure where we'll be going up there (Gigrin, Rutland maybe??) but I will be trying to hunt down some Waxwings so stay tuned after Christmas for hopefully some images!

Merry Christmas to everyone if i dont update my blog between now and the 25th