In early March I was in Iceland running a trip to photograph Arctic Foxes which is a trip I have been running for several years now. The location is Hornstrandir in the northwest fjords of Iceland and is a remote location with no roads going into the area. Although the beautiful Arctic Fox can be found throughout Iceland it is still heavily persecuted so it is very shy and elusive but Hornstrandir is a nature reserve and so the foxes are fully protected. This makes the foxes much more approachable and so the location is fantastic in seeing and photographing them. The rare blue morph form of ..read more

The month of October sees one of the great spectacles that can be found in the UK get underway which is the Red Deer Rut. This is a fantastic time to photograph these majestic animals as the action and the drama can be exhilarating. It is one of my favourite subjects to work with and I have been photographing this spectacle for 35 years now and it is an annual event that I always look forward too. I have always photographed the herd at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, an area I know well as I only live about 10 minutes away, so it really is my local patch. I have been running workshops at ..read more

I think by now anyone that has followed me or my blog over the years will be aware of my obsession with photographing Wolves. It is hard to explain why but Wolves just do something for me, they are super intelligent and so secretive and elusive and the challenge of getting an image of a wild wolf is so difficult, probably one of the hardest subjects that a wildlife photographer can choose. So, I decided a long time ago to rise to the challenge and slowly but surely, I have finally been getting the results that I have always wanted to achieve. Over those years I have mainly been getting resul ..read more

I first went to Bandhavgarh National Park in central India over 20 years ago and I instantly fell in love with the place. My main aim was to find and photograph the majestic Bengal Tiger and after that first sighting I was hooked. This National Park is a jewel in the Indian Park creation and is without doubt one of the most beautiful places on the planet.  There are so many other subjects to see but for me the Tiger is the main draw and every time I go back, I appreciate a Tiger sighting like it was my first. I have always visited during the winter months as it is much cooler, and the f ..read more

During the Month of October, I have always photographed the annual Red and Fallow Deer Rut at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire. Bradgate is my local patch as I only live ten minutes away from this beautiful park. So, I know the place well and know where to find the deer. Each year is different, and you don’t necessary find the deer in the same areas from year to year. Food availability is the key and that changes from year to year. This year it was a bumper crop of acorns and sweet chestnuts and so that affected the deer’s movements. I spent about three weeks covering the Rut and because o ..read more

During early July I was running a Natures images trip to the southern part of Alaska. This trip had been postponed because of the Pandemic but it had been planned so far in advance, it had seemed like years that we finally got to run it. Our main objective for this trip was to visit two locations where you can find good numbers of Brown Bears or Grizzlies. The two locations we visited were Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park and Lake Clark National Park, both are just superb for finding and photographing Grizzly Bears. Our first stop was Brooks Falls which I have to say I think is one of th ..read more

Over the past couple of years, I have missed going to many locations but one place that I was desperate to get back to was Svalbard. I have been running trips to this beautiful Island Archipelago in the high Arctic for many years. These islands are the realm of the King of the Arctic, the Polar Bear. Most people that visit Svalbard go during the summer months and travel by boat as the Ice starts to break up in the fjords and you can access some of the remotest parts of the islands. It is a great way to look for Polar Bears and the other inhabitants of the islands. I also run trips this way ..read more

There are some species that just press the right buttons for me, and the Wolf is one of them. I have been obsessed with photographing Wolves for the past twenty years and I have had some amazing encounters over those years. Although fleeting, each encounter has been so special and has left a great memory in the bank. I am always looking forward to my next wolf encounter and so plan a lot of my trips so I can maximise my opportunities with this beautiful predator. During the pandemic I was unable to travel like everyone else and so it had put paid to a lot of my plans for the past two years ..read more

Well, it has been a long time that I have been able to travel and run trips but slowly but surely things started to open up and one of the trips that Natures Images was able to get off the ground was our trip to Churchill in Canada. Churchill is without a doubt one of the best places in the world to see and photograph Polar Bears. Churchill is situated on the southern shores of the Hudson Bay and each autumn sees the arrival of this iconic arctic predator. The Ice in the Hudson Bay starts to break up in the late spring and by the height of the summer the Bears are forced onto land. During th ..read more

One of my favourite Animals to see and photograph in the UK is the Badger. I have been trying to photograph this beautiful mammal on and off ever since I first picked up a camera. To be honest I never really felt that I had managed to really do them justice and although I had one or two shots, I was a little disappointed with my Badger portfolio and it has been on mind to try and rectify that for several years. So, over the past couple of years I have been spending a good amount of time in pursuit of images of them. At first, I tried to get going in Leicestershire near to my home at a couple ..read more