Progress? Well, it’s actually at the printers in HK now, for delivery in early June. It was a struggle to get it as I wanted it to look (note my prophetic post about designers, written weeks before I saw the first pages) but it’s looking good now.
Since I am on a no-royalties deal with this [...]
All photos in this post © Lars Andreas Dybvik
A few years ago, when I spoke to the Naturfoto group in Trondheim, I met a young photographer called Lars Andreas Dybvik. Since then I’ve been intrigued by his novel take on familiar Scandinavian topics (see below) and was rather flattered when he began to run with [...]
- by Richard Avedon, not Niall Benvie…
In preparation for my presentation at Wild Photos in October, I’ve been doing some research to establish the lineage of my “white” work and turned in the first instance to respected American photographer Susan Middleton. She and her collaborator David Liittschwager have produced a number of important books (in [...]
The trips to Ben Lawers in Perthshire and Glen Doll in Angus to photograph more species for this project were, let’s say, challenging. In both instances, I ought to have been a week earlier to have more choice of specimens in peak condition. The biggest disappointment was to find that one of the very few [...]
27th May
0430. I‘m sure that Robert arranged the 0600 rendez-vous to test my mettle. Then again it might have something to do with the coolness of early morning being better for working the moths outdoors. Either way I was determined not to be late and rolled up at his riverside chalet at 0545. Robert confided [...]
25th April. It was not another sunny day in Spain. And when we saw how the Retama bushes were blowing about, I pictured a frustrated chameleon trying to shoot its tongue out at cricket as predator and prey swayed to and fro. That didn’t make me feel any more hopeful. Furthermore it was cool enough [...]
24th April. Another sunny day in Spain. The received wisdom suggested that there was no point in looking for chameleons until the oven was hot so we drove to a pine wood near Cartaya just after breakfast. When we had visited yesterday (to photograph one of the three remaining charcoal makers in Andalucia at work), [...]
Bluebells are at once a hugely engaging subject yet one that that we see relatively few interpretations of. I’ve resisted the temptation (amn’t I the virtuous one!!) to feature a “creatively” blurred one – the sort of thing where the camera is moved during the exposure – going instead for one of my [...]
With uncharacteristically good timing, I found these catkins of woolly willow (Salix lanata) at their peak when I went to Glen Clova, Angus, earlier this week. This is one of the 15 alpine species at risk from high altitude warming (as well as browsing by mountain hare and voles at some sites) that I have [...]
I am starting to trickle technical pieces into the site now, starting today with an exposé of how I make my field studio flower pictures.