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Precious moments with a Vixen.

...e 2 of my photography plan, little did I know what an emotional roller coaster I was about to embark on!   I spent the next week making a water proof housing for my EOS R Canon camera, and also a Sabre trigger which fitted nicely into a Chinese take away plastic carton! I then made a bracket that I could fit to a tree for a remote flash, and once ready I took it to the wood and set it up. The movement trigger was a laser, and you can set the frequency of the signal up as well as the length etc, so a bit of trial and error to start with. The camera battery was just the normal LP6-EN, and i made sure everything was fully charged, focussed on a point near the de...

Motor Bikes and African wildlife

...dlife and photography. Highlights were getting out on the plains and spending time with the Cheetahs as they prepared to hunt, the low level truck and spending a day in the Lagoon hide where you enter through a tunnel and pop up in the middle of the big lagoon.  Entrance to the Lagoon hide. Also great to see the lion cubs from last year growing fast but still with the family group, and watching 2 herds of 100 Cape Buffalo pass by an overnight hide and stop to drink at the waterhole, once at 6PM and once at 1AM. We did 3 overnight sessions at 2 different hides at waterholes, but unfortunately for us (but good for the animals) there had been a big rain storm ov...

Fishing Ospreys

...in Osprey photography and the patience required to get the shots. After time to download the images, get an afternoon nap and sort some food out for the evening, we were back in the hide again around 4 PM. The light was really nice, but unfortunately despite a few fly pasts no dives, got some shots with the 7D and 500mm lens of Oyster catchers mating and a family of ducks, but a bit frustrating to get no more dives to practice on, but thats the way nature works, the week before they had had an average of 4 to 5 a session.   Wednesday: Up at 3.30 AM again and ready for action at 4.15. Once again a few birds in the air but no dives, and then about 7.30 the...

Ospreys in Scotland part 2!

...th Osprey photography, sometimes you are lucky with 4 or 5 dives a session, and sometimes none, which makes it very difficult to get ‘THE’ shot, but also more rewarding when you do get something good. Having an experienced guide like Jo really comes into its own when you are not having many dives, as she can get you in the correct position to make sure you have a good chance of getting a good shot straight away using her many years experience of Osprey behaviour and photographing them. If you were getting 15 dives a session it would be easy as eventually you would learn how they dive and get a good shot and an experienced guide not so important, but when tim...

Mad March Hares getting frisky!

...Spent a nice morning at Oaks farm with about 10 Hares chasing each other and getting amorous! I managed to melt into the background downwind of them with a long lens, and just enjoy watching them in the cold easterly wind. They were really active with lots of males chasing and fighting with a few females, amazing to see how fast they run and change direction....

Lovers Tiff!

...Came across this pair of Kingfishers busy digging their burrow on a lakeside near Thetford. Great to observe them going in and out taking in turns to dig, and chase away unwanted attention from another male in the area. Difficult photography conditions as the site is about 50M from the nearest observation point, so need long lens plus extender. Also, the site is a bit in the shade, but great to see them flying around each other with the odd fight along the way. Only way to tell the sexes apart is the female has a reddish bottom to her beak.                     ...