The latest edition of Outdoor Photography (Edition 330) includes an article I was commissioned to write on a “A Moment With Nature” titled “Natural Boost”.  The front cover of the magazine features one of my kingfisher images.

Walrus really do stink, you can smell them before you get anywhere near them. When they are not hoovering up clams, they are sleeping or fighting each other. Their constant flatulence makes them one of the smelliest animals I have photographed.

The BBC have published an article on my work documenting how nature has started to reclaim the former coal mine at Chatterley Whitfield in Stoke-on-Trent. I spent several years photographing at this now abandoned coal mine, recording the natural rewilding that is occurring on this site.

With their brownish-grey feathers, spotted flycatchers may seem a little dull. To me, spotted flycatchers are beautiful in a subtle understated way. Their fly-catching antics, which have given them their name, involve flying from a perch, dashing to grab a flying insect and then returning to the same perch, are simply charming.

It has been over fifteen years since I last photographed kingfishers and, amongst other things, I now have many new images of them to process.

Despite being completely unprepared, I managed to photograph the Northern Lights in Laponia, Finland on a very cold night at minus 21 degress celsius.

Having worked as a wildlife photography tour and workshop leader for two of the UK’s largest wildlife tour operators, I have decided to run my own wildlife photography tours and workshops.

With the Arctic warming three to four times faster than the rest of the world, future predictions of an ice free Arctic are clearly seen by some as an economic opportunity rather than a catastrophe that should be avoided. Those that desire to control a warming Arctic and the natural resources that may become more accessible as a consequence of such warming, view the Arctic as just another commodity to be exploited.

Wildlife photography is easy, right? Just look at all the images on Instagram! There is more to making great wildlife images than just using the longest lens you have available.

When I first started travelling to Africa, I had a series of images, a “shot list”, that I had in mind that I would like to make. Over the years, I have managed to make some of these images whilst adding many more to the list. Amongst these images are the iconic images of African wildlife silhouetted against an intense red sunrise or sunset.

Watching this lioness feeding on an eland that she and her sister had recently killed in the Chyulu Hills National Park in Kenya, I was struck by a sense of her power.

Sitting in the sunken hide at the side of the waterhole, I had an incredibly close up view from ground level of the elephants as they came to drink.

The unseasonal snow storm transformed the Torres del Paine National Park, returning it to winter and making for spectacular conditions for photography. Lying on the cold ground with snow falling, the female puma walked straight towards me.

Little owls are one of five species of owls that regularly breed in the UK. Over a period of four months, I photographed this family of little owls at a location not far from my home..

By the side of the single track lane that leads to my house is a small copse. Inside the copse is an old marl pit where this badger’s clan built their sett.

The latest edition of Outdoor Photography (Edition 321) includes an article I was commissioned to write on photographing landscapes and wildlife in Svalbard in the Arctic.

To develop requires moving out of our comfort zone and taking steps into situations that are not familiar.

I’ve been smitten with barn owls for a long, long time. There is something magical about watching these ghostly pale owls quartering a field as they hunt.

Street vendor in Old Delhi, India.

Eye to eye with a little owl perched on an old fence post.