Film | Painting King Penguins | Wildlife Art
Watch the process as I complete a new painting featuring a pair of king penguins. See how I go from inspirational sightings of king penguins in South Georgia to finished...
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Film | Painting King Penguins | Wildlife Art
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Peregrine Falcon Swoops over Birdwatchers
Those of you who went on the two bird watching walks this weekend came back delighted. I hear the walk to find winter migrants on Saturday was a success. Michael...
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Waxwing Glut
Waxwings have been arriving from Scandinavia in record numbers this year to take advantage of a bumper harvest of rowan berries.These beautiful birds migrate to the UK when food stocks...
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Kingfishers King of the Waterways
Wasn't it good to read this week how the number of kingfishers spotted along Britain's rivers and canals have more than trebled this year? There had been some concerns that...
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Autumn Display
I've been so busy finishing off my paintings for the exhibition that I haven't had time to go out and get any photographs of the wonderful autumn display we've been...
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Spurn Point
Spurn Point is a great place to see winter migrants coming in. The unique shape of this spit of land means the birds don't disperse as quickly as they would...
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Deer Stalk
Sometimes the efforts I go to to get good wildlife photographs for my paintings can seem a little odd to the uninitiated.We had some friends from London staying and they...
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Motion Blurring Photography
In dull light it is easy to take a photograph that gives the effect of motion blur. But I took these photographs on a reasonably bright autumn day. I mainly...
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Studley Royal
I had a day out in Studley Royal Deer Park at Fountain's Abbey near Ripon on Sunday. I know it's not the Highlands of Scotland, but with a busy schedule...
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The Quagga Look
The unusual markings on this zebra put me in mind of the long-extinct sub-species of zebra known as the quagga. This photograph, taken at London Zoo in 1870, is of...
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Bone Crunching Giraffe?
One of the strangest things I saw during my trip to Namibia was giraffe chewing on dry bones. I thought that perhaps they could be extracting minerals from the bones...
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The Big, the Beautiful and the Comical
The wildlife was so obliging in Namibia. Here are some of my favourite poses.As we left our camp at Okaukuejo one morning we were greeted by this bull elephant. It...
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Elephant Hierarchy
My daughter Lily enjoyed the safari, especially the giraffe which are her favourite, but after a long day driving through the bush even an elephant at such close quarters wasn't...
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Nights at the Waterhole
On the last few days of our trip we stayed at a third camp overlooking the Okaukuejo waterhole. At night the waterhole was floodlit and I was able to watch...
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Life at the Waterhole
It was wintertime when I visited Namibia and the countryside was dry, so all the action took place at the waterholes. Day and night these life-giving pools were a hive...
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Black Rhino AND Leopard
Namibia is the best place in the world to see black rhino. This endangered species has been brought back from the brink of extinction in recent years and Etosha National...
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Namibian Desert
I've been offline for quite some time now because I have been travelling through Namibia in Southern Africa.I went with my family and two friends, Ged and Lucy. We hired...
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Swallow Summer
During my exhibition a lot of visitors said they had seen less swallows this year nesting in their buildings. I photographed these newly fledged chicks being fed by their parents...
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Dear Deer
On the first owl safari we spotted a roe doe. I had seen her there two days before at the same time and in the same place and I suspected...
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Barn Owl Sighting
The owl safaris were such an inspiration that I spent some time afterwards getting photographs of all the wildlife we had seen.This was the barn owl that we saw hunting...
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10 Owl Tours - Little Owls
We had three owl safaris in total during the Wildlife Festival and they all turned out to be a great success. We saw 10 owls on each - in fact...
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Curlew Cuffs
One of my favourite summer visitors is the curlew. I once watched a pair raising their brood and was fascinated by the ferocity with which the male protected them. He...
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Badger Groom
I have been watching my badger sett of late, but so far no sign of any new cubs. I have to conclude that this year their just won't be any....
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A cutie hidden in a 'bale park'
I headed out the other night to get some muck for my vegetable patch from my dad's farm at Givendale. Near to where the muck is, there is an area...
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In the Nationals!
UPDATE; 2017 This experience was so unusual it inspired another painting this year. See it below. Well it has been a very interesting day for me today. My photograph of the...
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Tawny Chicks Fledge
The tawny owl chicks, whose parents I feed from my garden bird table, have just fledged. I made them this nest box out of an old elm tree stump. They...
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Birds of Prey Battle it Out!
After the excitment of being on the telly last night, I thought I'd go back to Wales and post some more pictures of my time at Grigin Farm watching the...
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Arial Combat
I headed back to Grigin Farm in Mid-Wales last week for more photographs of the many many red kites that now feed there.Mid Wales was once home to one of...
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New Zealand Bird Life
Whilst on the Otago peninsular we stayed overlooking a lovely estuary where there was lots of bird life. Including this white-faced heron. New Zealand's kingfisher. A black swan. Black swans...
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New Zealand
You might have been wondering why I've been a bit quiet of late. I've been to New Zealand for the last three weeks where I've been visiting my brother-in-law Richard,...
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Winner of The Telegraph's Big Picture Competition
The photograph I took of a tiger hunting in India has won me first prize in The Telegraph's Big Picture competition this week. It will appear on the back page...
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Tiger Hunt
As celebrations for the Chinese Year of the Tiger begin this week, I have been reminiscing about the first time I saw a tiger in India, its three-metre long body...
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Heron Feast
The main draw to Slimbridge is the duck and geese population, but I ended up focusing on herons.It was unusual to see them so tame. These birds are usually wary...
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Hunkering Down
The icy weather has made it easier to spot and photograph wildlife, although things are very tough for the animals and birds themselves. I took these pictures as the snow...
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Getting Up Close
Something a lot of visitors to the exhibition have been asking me is how I get close enough to badgers to photograph them for my paintings. It isn't easy, as...
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Badger Watch
The badger clan that I have been watching from my hide on the Yorkshire Wolds all year have been putting a lot of effort into social bonding lately.They've been grooming...
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Iconic Mara
Time to turn the focus back on Yorkshire and to working some of the images I gathered in Kenya into my next set of paintings. I'll leave you with some...
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More Mara
Nature's sanitation squad: yellow-billed oxpeckers feed on ticks on buffalo. It is amazing how these normally aggressive beasts tolerate the birds, as they do get into some awkward places. If...
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Hunter Bird
Secretary birds are said to be named for their crest of long quill-like feathers, which make them look like a 19th century secretary with quill pens behind his ear. Although...
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More Sightings
Leopards are always impressive and this one is no exception. During the trip I was lucky enough to see some four week old leopard cubs too, but unfortunately I didn't...
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Watch out, lion coming through!
Of course, what most people come to see when they travel to the Mara are the lions. As the wildebeest, zebra and other game come through, these kings of the...
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Migration
Today I got back from Kenya where I have been following the world's largest animal migration as it crosses the Masai Mara. Each year more than 1.4 million wildebeest and...
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Kermit the Kestrel- a new arrival
Look at this little baby Kestrel! I've called him Kermit. A couple were walking along the Wolds Way when they spotted this little bundle on the floor. Alongside it was...
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