Shelley Lake is an extremely talented photographer (www.ShelleyLake.com), but more-over she is a Chiropractor! So when she posted tips for holding and shooting, we should all take note...  Great images and no personal damage...  Shelley, our backs thank you! :)

Early this month I posted about a decree by the French ecology and agriculture ministry addressing the concerns of farmers and resulted in relaxed hunting laws for wolfs and increasing the number that could be killed this coming season. The news is not getting any better, with the french government landing on the side of livestocks. [LPO reports]

Thankfully, I have never seen any real conflict, but I have seen many animals on the state highways around and running through national parks.

A recent paper by Brewin et al. 2015 in PLOS looks at "the Potential of Surfers to Monitor Environmental Indicators in the Coastal Zone". In short, they demonstrated that by using the abundant surfer population in the south west United Kingdom (UK), they could generate ~40 million data points per year, overcoming the current inadequate sampling methods. This data would be invaluable for costal monitoring and management.

Want to try macro photography, but don't have the cash...  well here is an option!

Macro photography is fun...  but a good macro lens is expensive (as all good lenses are). So if you want to try it, but don't have the cash to do it...  just flip your standard lens around...  no, i'm not kidding! 

Infra-red flash reveals the panthers spots!

Hear me being interviewed about wildlife photography and Bandipur Tiger Reserve!

A while ago now I was interviewed by a good friend of mine, Shreejata Gupta, about my love for wildlife photography and Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka, India. For me it is cringworthy, but hopefully you'll enjoy it!

A recent scientific paper published in PLoS Biol by provided some rather amazing results...  Humans are not the only species that can talk! 

Image of Babblers taken from wikipedia many thanks Avcida.

Back in 2012, I took a fantastic week long trip with my wife Jenifer, and our two old friends Jon and Tatyana on a 3000+ km around Iceland. Looking back on the images I got is a joy for me and I hope you might enjoy them too! :) For anyone who has never been, i would highly recommend it! :)

A decree earlier this month by the ecology and agriculture French ministerial spells bad news for the French wolf population. The decree is about the organisation of wolf hunting for the 2015/2016 season (Official Journal of 2 July 2015).

Given the fact that all modern digital cameras have an LCD screen screen on the back that will actually display the image, what is the point in the histogram? What is the histogram showing us? How is it useful? How to use histograms to their best.

I am the official photographer for a year long series of exhibitions by local Bangalore artists. check out the action from the first show!