South Africa – Kruger National Park – Lower Sabie

We drove from Oliphants Camp to Lower Sabie which as it’s all within Kruger is actually a game drive. One of our dilemmas for this trip was whether to rent a 4 wheel drive or just an ordinary 2 wheel drive. Having researched it we decide that a normal 2 wheel drive would be ok. … Read more

South Africa – Kruger National Park – Oliphants Camp

From the Panorama Route we travelled to Kruger National Park. We had 4 nights in the park and stayed at 2 different camps. The 1st camp was Oliphants overlooking the Oliphants river. It would have been great to sit and eat overlooking the river but this wasn’t possible due to the unusually high winds whilst … Read more

Bird photography on the Red Sea coast near Marsa Alam, Egypt

  Another holiday on the Red Sea coast near to Marsa Alam, where I can photograph the passing migrants and my wife can snorkel and do some underwater photography.We stayed at two different hotels which gave a slightly different reef for my wife and different gardens for me to walk around.Here is a collection of … Read more

Processing for Birds – Dodge and Burn

Sometimes you get a shot of a bird that’s in focus with good light, good perch, and good background only to be spoilt by a shadow. The image below is ok except for the shadow of the bill.  Wouldn’t it be great if you could remove it. Well you can using the following technique. Download … Read more

Processing for Birds – Web Images

I first describe my workflow for processing images for posting on the web in 2010. I posted my revised workflow in November 2017. Since then I’ve changed a few things, so I decided that I needed to update my blog with my latest workflow, using my latest Photoshop Action, which can be downloaded from here … Read more

A varied week

A real mixed week.  Went to Littondale for the weekend.  Sandra walked to Malham and I walked as far as the waterfall behind the caravan park in the hopes of getting some decent Kestrel shots.  Sat for over an hour near to the waterfall but only saw the Kestrel in the distance.  On the return … Read more