Greetings from a Wildlife Photographer on Dartmoor in Devon, England  I hope you are all safe and well, and bearing up with what is going on. So, what have you been doing to keep yourself busy during this “Lockdown” period? I had planned to visit two main areas to photograph wildlife on Dartmoor this year, a third was ready just in case I had to change my plans last minute due to some unforeseen circumstance like the Dartmoor rangers setting fire to one of the areas, which has happened before. I, and I doubt anybody else, could foresee what was going to happen when the coronavirus, covid ..read more

Greetings from a Wildlife Photographer on Dartmoor in Devon, England  I hope you are all safe and well, and bearing up with what is going on with all this Corvid 19 business. In the last Wildlife Photography blog I told you about an incident that happened whilst I was driving home which involved a Tawney Owl. (www.robinstanbridgephotography.co.uk/blog/2020/5/coronavirus-corvid-19-lockdown-period-keeping-busy-wildlife-photography-wise). This is not the first time this type of thing has happened to me. Quite a few years ago when I lived in Hampshire I was driving to work. The time was about ..read more

Greetings from a Wildlife Photographer on Dartmoor in Devon, England  I hope you are all safe and well, and bearing up with what is going on. So, what have you been doing to keep yourself busy during this “Lockdown” period? I had planned to visit two main areas to photograph wildlife on Dartmoor this year, a third was ready just in case I had to change my plans last minute due to some unforeseen circumstance like the Dartmoor rangers setting fire to one of the areas, which has happened before. I, and I doubt anybody else, could foresee what was going to happen when the coronavirus, corvid ..read more

Greetings from a Wildlife Photographer on Dartmoor in Devon, England Christmas is fast approaching and not long behind it is the New Year. Oh my goodness, doesn’t time fly, does it seem to speed up the older we get or is that just me? I remember when I was at school and we used to get six weeks off in July and August. I would go on holiday and do everything I wanted to do and still have four weeks left! Then I started work and time, during the week, really dragged but the weekend time flew by. The sad thing about this is that I couldn’t wait for the weekend and I was wishing my life away. I t ..read more

Before I get started this blog is not about the cape wearing Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, it is about wildlife photography, trust me! The Ugly – A few years ago we used to have two collared doves in our garden. They used to sit on the telephone wire cooing, sitting next to, and cuddling, each other. That was until last year when Mr or Mrs sparrowhawk decided it wanted to eat one of them. All we found was a pile of feathers, a beak and a foot near a bush in the garden. The other dove stayed around the garden and in early spring of this year was joined by a partner. Things were getting on ..read more

Greetings from a Wildlife Photographer on Dartmoor in Devon Well it has been a while since my last blog. There was me thinking that I would have more time after I retired but it seems that I have a lot less time! I just cannot think HOW I fitted work into my heavy schedule. Having said that, I have been really busy doing lots more things. The good side of it is that the things I have been doing are for me and my family rather than for an employer, the downside of it is that I do not get paid for it. I have still had time for photography and am starting new ventures in this field. You will not ..read more

Greetings from a Wildlife Photographer on Dartmoor in Devon Continuing from my last blog where I suggested that you turn your garden into a wildlife area for your photography. I had a very interesting conversation, via email, with a gentleman who, after reading my blog thought, I thought that everybody has a large garden with fields, woods and moorland surrounding it. If anybody else thought that then I am sorry if I gave that impression, I can assure you that I certainly do not think that. I know there are hundreds of thousands of people that have small gardens or no garden at all. Well if y ..read more