Richard Peters Photography blog
Wildlife photography, shooting tips, videos, equipment reviews, location diaries and more!
What a fantastic way to end the year! The first week of December saw my mousing fox images appearing heavily in the National and International Press and even a brief appearance on UK television. At the height of which I was getting texts, tweets and Facebook messages coming in all over the place from people [...]
It’s always worth looking back over old images. Every once in a while I dip in to my archives and see if I can either find a hidden gem, or I revisit an old favourite to see if it still holds up well, or, if I feel I could reprocess. Well, after catching up with [...]
Just a few minutes before taking this image I was on the busy and almost claustrophobic streets of mid-town Manhattan, with car horns beeping, crowds of people everywhere and huge skyscrapers all around blocking out the sky as best they could. And then, after a very quick (and impressive) elevator ride I was high above [...]
This is the split second before a Hobby plucks a mayfly from the air. A moment that is over so quickly you can barely register it’s happened when watching these lightening fast birds dart about the sky with the agility to match their impressive speed. Personally, I very rarely see Hobbies. I could count on [...]
I’ve seen plenty of sunsets in my time, but never before have I been INSIDE one! Being at over 3,000 feet and having stunning orange and red clouds all around me at my level, and so close I could walk in to them, that’s exactly what it felt like taking this three shot panoramic from [...]
I’m amazed. I loved my D3, I really did, but the D3s just raises the bar so much higher. ISO 4000 with no noise reduction and no real noise is phenomenal. It doesn’t matter how much you read about the D3s high ISO, once you experience it for yourself it just seems to defy belief! [...]
Sitting on a Hawaiian island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, looking at the Milky Way clearly stretch out across the sky with the naked eye is an incredible, awe inspiring and humbling experience. But getting an image of it certainly proved tricky, despite having a D3s. ISO 102,000 certainly came in handy though [...]
1/5 second is usually way to slow for wildlife photography using a telephoto lens. But, when faced with less than ideal conditions, I wanted a photo that would really emphasis the intense stare this alligator was giving. The weather conditions forced me to think outside the box which resulted in this long exposure image, making [...]
