wildlife photography

    This is how Planet Earth II’s iguana chase scene was shot
    Nov 14, 2016 John Aldred

    If there’s one “triumphant underdog” story that’s been popular this week, it’s this one. The footage from BBC’s Planet Earth 2 series of the young…

    Photographing Flying Squirrels with High Speed Flash
    Nov 4, 2016 Steve Gettle

    Flying Squirrels are fairly common, although seldom seen members of the rodent family. The Southern Flying Squirrel is found throughout the Eastern half of the…

    Photographing wildlife can be a lot closer to home than you thought
    Nov 2, 2016 John Aldred

    In my home town, there’s a pair of sparrowhawks that regularly nest in one of the churches in the town centre. Foxes were a regular…

    How to turn Edinburgh into a zoo in Photoshop
    Sep 2, 2016 Clinton lofthouse

    Lee Howell is an Award-Winning Commercial photographer and creative retoucher based in the UK, specialising in advertising, fashion and contemporary editorial portraiture. Here, he shows…

    Federal authorities and Kentucky State Police warn of bombs in trail cameras
    Aug 29, 2016 John Aldred

    Well, this is messed up. A warning has been issued that IEDs have been found in Harlan County, Kentucky. The IEDs in question are hidden inside…

    Faces of Foxes: Every Fox Has Different Personality
    Jul 22, 2016 Roeselien Raimond

    When, during the sixties, Jane Goodall gave wild chimpanzees a name instead of a number, she put the science world upside down. Anonymous animals were…

    Mindshiftgear’s Moose Peterson bag will auto close on your gear to protect it
    Jul 15, 2016 Udi Tirosh

    Here is a problem nature and wildlife photographers have to deal with. How to protect gear when accesing the bag. Some shoots involve dust, rain,…

    How to shoot wildlife at night using flash
    May 30, 2016 John Aldred

    I only recently came across the YouTube channel of Australian wildlife photographer, Derek Hilton, but it’s one I quickly became fascinated with.  It’s probably the…

    How to add some extra stability to your long lens shots on tripods
    May 16, 2016 John Aldred

    Working with real big lenses is fun, but often troublesome.  Handholding with image stabilisation can help, but only until your arms get tired, which is where the trusty…

    GoPro timelapse and night vision nestcam capture nature’s nest thieves taking four bird eggs and a baby buzzard
    May 16, 2016 John Aldred

    Documenting nature isn’t always as cute and fluffy as we’d like it to be, and when it comes to the law of the jungle, the…