Estimates suggest that between 70,000 and 100,000 insect species have been formally recorded in Costa Rica, with the true number likely somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000. Add to that over 2,000 species of spider, and it quickly becomes clear there’s no shortage of subjects for macro photography, and the great thing is that you can […]
In November 2025, Christine and I returned to Costa Rica, one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Amidst all that diversity, one of the highlights of any visit is the amazing colourful frogs. While it’s possible to find frogs in most hotel or lodge gardens, you’re better off on a guided tour. The benefits
Typically seen as a ghostly silhouette, flitting through summer nights at speed, this Brown Long-Eared Bat has been frozen in time by a high-speed flash, providing an opportunity to see these remarkable creatures in glorious detail. Brown Long-Eared bats are one of the most common and widely distributed species in the UK, and are typically
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We’ve just experienced an eruption of Seven-spot Ladybirds in our garden; there are literally hundreds of them. This has prompted me to dust off my macro lens and flash to try a little macro photography. The gallery below includes both day and night images. The spiders are common Garden and Long-jawed spiders. Macro reveals so
Last weekend, I spent a night in a hide designed specifically for owl photography — in this case, Tawny Owls. These owls, while entirely wild, have become habituated to the site and are accustomed to both LED lighting and flash photography. The hide is set on the edge of farmland, with suitably atmospheric perches: gate
I just had to share this image of a female badger. Like much of the UK, it’s been an incredibly dry spring in Cambridge. A consequence of this is that the ground is like concrete and the worms, the staple food of badgers, have retreated much deeper into the soil. With food scare, badgers sometimes
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In March 2025, Christine and I took a huge gamble: we went on a wildlife photography holiday to see a single, elusive species—one that is secretive and predominantly active between dusk and dawn. The animal in question was the Wolverine, and the location was the forests of Finland. To add further jeopardy, we chose to
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It’s been three months since I last photographed the kingfishers near Stamford. Since then, they have raised a second brood that has already fledged. I’d hoped to see the juveniles, but alas they did not show. It’s possible that the parents were in the process of driving the juveniles away from the territory, but who
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Given the wet spring and early summer, the field where I usually watch the Cambridge fox family has become heavily overgrown with long grass, making it difficult to see or photograph the fox cubs. As a result, I decided to set up my portable photography hide to capture low-angle images of the cubs along the
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Warning: The following post contains an account and pictures that some people may find upsetting. On the 19th May we were in Ranthambhore’s zone 2 looking for a tigress called Arrowhead, who had three eleven-month-old cubs. Near the end of our afternoon drive we located them in a tree-lined, shallow gorge that contained plenty
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