Latest nature and environmental news
Insecticide ‘killing Kenya lions’ A disturbing report and interview by the BBC on the use of Carbofuran is a very powerful and toxic insecticide. This chemical is being used not to control bugs and plants, it’s original intention but to poison big game animals including lions and other predators. Report includes an interview with world [...]
FLPA wins best photo agency 2008
I am pleased to announce that my primary agency handling my wildlife and nature work, FLPA, based in the UK has been awarded Best Photo Agency of 2008 by BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agents). I am very proud to be associated with FLPA and encourage everyone to take a look at the [...]
Keywording theft
As anyone who has been on one of my Digital Workflow workshops will know one of the major failings by photographers hoping to break into the stock photography market is poor keywording. Most prople know enough to add the obvious descriptive keywords describing the subject of the image but are often poor at concept keywords [...]
New member of staff joins Peter Llewellyn Photography
We are pleased to announce a new member of staff at Peter Llewellyn Photography. Elsa joins us as Chief Cable chewer and disruptive influence in the office. Needless to say very little actual work got done today as she went into training for her new role!
Weekly Nature News Roundup
Global Warming Fight Shifts to 2009: Vote Creates Historic Momentum Despite the Senate’s vote that stalled action this year, 54 Senators spoke up for the need to debate solutions to global warming, including 10 who had not supported similar legislation in the past. SAVE Brasil (BirdLife in Brazil) – has held a ceremony to recognise [...]
How much gear is enough?
Of course I realize that equipment doesn’t make great photos – great photographers do. Something I try and hammer home on my field trips and workshops, especially when students drool over the equipment I have available to me. Of course having the right equipment certainly helps, which got me thinking how much gear does a [...]
First major equestrian shoot of the season
May 21 to 1 June saw me at Thunderbird showpark in Langley, British Columbia for the start of my last season shooting the equestrian world. As many of you know I have sold my collection of equestrian images to a BC publishing company and from 2009 will be shooting exclusively wildlife and nature images and [...]