Nature Photo Blog, Articles and Image Galleries
Norfolk nature photography blog covering wildlife gardening, local wildlife and natural history articles and a wildlife photo gallery.
I love observing nature through the changing seasons both in my Norfolk wildlife garden and the surrounding countryside. I blog about wildlife gardening as well as about Norfolk butterflies, wildflowers and other flora and fauna that I come across. Bookmark my Norfolk nature photo blog to keep up to date with my photographic adventures.
Recent Galleries
I fell in love with butterflies at an early age, fascinated by their vivid beauty, transience and amazing lifecycle. Now of course they are increasingly vulnerable to threats, with many species in decline and they are often seen as a "canary-like" indicator species warning us of the health of our entire ecosystem. Here is a selection of some of my favourite butterfly images, mostly taken in local nature reserves or my own garden in Norfolk and previously Oxfordshire
Norfolk is famous for its uniquely beautiful coast and "big skies" and they are truly atmospheric, but Norfolk's inland countryside also offers a varied range of habitats from lush woodland to open grassland and heath. With such a wealth of scenic spots on my doorstep I am immensely enjoying discovering its secrets with my camera. Here are a few of my favourite landscape photos of Norfolk so far.
“I like my nature photos the natural way.”
A small note about nature photography ethics. For me nature comes before the image. As far as possible my images are candid observations of whatever I happen across just doing what it does naturally. I do my utmost to respect all nature and avoid disturbance using long professional lenses. This means that you won’t find here contrived, artificially pristine images of insects refrigerated to be obliging models, water bottle droplet sprayed wildflowers, dead moles posed on a molehill or invisible fishtanks of captive stickleback live bait being dived at by kingfishers. With the exception of wild wolves (endangered species) moths (I use a trap for species recording) and a few rescued wildlife and bird of prey photos taken in an ethical sanctuary, my images aren’t baited, and never ever with live bait.
“Celebrating the beauty of the world around us, ever present when we look up from our hectic lives”