About me

I have been interested in wildlife and all aspects of nature for as long as I can remember, with some of my earliest recollections being watching the fascinating underwater films of Hans & Lotte Hass in the late 1950s and some of Anglia Television's award-winning 'Survival' natural history prorammes in the early 1960s.

During my mid-late 20s I became an enthusiastic birder (I was even a 'twitcher' for a while!) and travelled throughout the UK to see birds and to visit nature reserves from as far afield as Cornwall and Kent to Scotland.

At that time I also developed an interest in wildlife photography but couldn't afford any decent equipment and, with a few exceptions, managed to get consistently poor results with a Practika 35mm SLR camera and a 400mm Tamron lens. In those pre-digital days the processing costs of slides and prints also made the cost of achieving only a few good shots out of perhaps 3 or 4 rolls of film prohibitively expensive and so eventually I abandoned any hope of becoming a successful wildlife photographer but continued to enjoy watching birds and other wildlife, especially in and around my local area here in rural Cambridgeshire.

Then along came digital photography and, having reached a stage in life when I could at last afford some decent equipment, my interest in photographing wildlife was renewed. It has since developed into a passion and some of the subsequent results are shown on this website - hopefully for your enjoyment.

As I have recently been successful in selling quite a lot of my work I suppose I now fall into the category of being a 'semi-professional' wildlife photographer and, although I still have much to learn about some of the technical aspects of photography, the pleasure gained from not just watching but also now being able to capture some reasonable quality images of wildlife - often at close range - is as great as ever.

Jeff