Personal news and views from the world of international sports photography, nature photography, my workshops and field trips

Archive for October, 2009

Veolia Wildlife Photographer of Year

Results are now out for the 2009 edition of the British Natural History Museum’s wildlife photographer of the year competition sponsored by Veolia. This is the world’s top competition for nature and wildlife photographers and has been won in the past by some of the top names in the field. To view a selection of [...]


Photomechanic and Snow Leopard

I have long been an advocate of Photomechanic for initial sorting of images and efficient captioning and keywording. A small glitch has occurred with the program after upgrading to Apple’s Snow Leopard OS. Although the program starts correctly when a memory card is inserted into a card reader the ingest dialogue box either takes several [...]


Nikon D3 with movie mode – Nikon announces the D3s

Nikon has today announced the launch of the D3s. The new version of the top of the line D3 boasts a Movie mode with HD quality (1280 x 720) pixel at 24 fps The roving freelance can now shoot both stills and news clips with the same camera and have access to the full range [...]