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Posted on 22nd November, 2023
Our last full day - how can a week go so quickly? We got up early for a quick dip in the hot springs at Bishop Bay - I was somewhat ambivalent about doing this but in fact it was lovely - like a giant and constantly hot bath! Before that I found myself photographing rocks, yet again - it...
Posted on 20th November, 2023
The day began with thick fog. We could hear the wolves howling again, although not so close and visibility was restricted to a few metres - wonderfully atmospheric but perhaps not ideal wildlife spotting conditions! Nevertheless we went towards the shore in the zodiacs and waited...
Posted on 14th November, 2023
We woke to the sound of howling wolves - coastal wolves, to be precise. It had to happen, didnt' it? Just when you thought things couldn't get any better, it seemed they could! We went up on deck and, although it was still relatively dark, you could clearly see them on the shore....
Posted on 31st October, 2023
Based on the weather the previous evening, I woke hoping for some atmospheric conditions. I was not disappointed and emerged on deck to find plenty of low cloud and fog clinging to the forested hills surrounding the inlet. I dare say everyone else was hoping for another warm and sunny day -...
Posted on 24th October, 2023
Day three dawned clear again, but being in a fjordland setting, it was a while until the sun would find its way to us. Once light enough, we were back onto the zodiacs and looking out for grizzlies, amongst other things. We didn't have to wait long, spotting a bear in the far...
Posted on 10th October, 2023
We woke early and went up on deck to enjoy a dawn chorus of jumping salmon, curious seals and various birds - it was wonderful just standing there, looking and listening. With a busy schedule for the day, we made our way further north, surrounded on all sides by layers and layers of amazing...
Posted on 3rd October, 2023
Early in 2020 (BC) Rob and I booked a holiday to British Columbia - we got as far as booking our return flights to Vancouver (to visit my cousins) and a boat trip with a company called Bluewater Adventures and we started to consider what else we might do in our time there. It wasn't too...
Posted on 30th December, 2021
It's now two years since I wrote my last blog for this website. Just over two years since I wrote my last newsletter. In some ways time has almost seemed to stand still - in other respects, so much has happened and the world feels so changed, that two years ago seems a lifetime...
Posted on 30th December, 2019
A few of us have been posting our four favourite images from 2019 - as is often the way as each year draws to an end. I posted mine on social media a few days before Christmas. I then saw a tweet from the Togcast guys saying what about best of the decade? That sounded a challenge too...
Posted on 11th December, 2019
There are many variables outwith our control in photography. Depending on your viewpoint, you can see this as a frustration or as one of the joys of our craft – that we can never be quite sure what we are going to get. The one thing that is always within our control is composition. Of...
Posted on 15th August, 2019
Earlier this month I spent a fascinating day with Lyndon and Jenny from Yorkshire Peat Partnership. For the best part of six hours we wandered around Fleet Moss – once covered in a rich peatland habitat, but now much of it is a desolate landscape, in parts resembling a First World War...
Posted on 14th June, 2019
It's well over a year since I took receipt of the best camera backpack I have ever owned, so I felt it was now time for a short update to my original review - which you can read here. At that time, I was in the early stages of recovering from torn knee and ankle ligaments and so it...