Richard Peters: Wildlife Photography blog
Wildlife photography, shooting tips, videos, equipment reviews, location diaries and more!
We’re standing in a thick blizzard. Tree’s surround us and visibility is down to 50 feet at best. Not a sound can be heard, except the one that sends a shiver down my spin, the distant howl of a wolf calling out to the rest of the pack. Are we about to finally encounter the [...]
It’s -39c, my breath is freezing to the collar of my jacket, there’s four foot of snow on the ground and on a nearby hill side, I can see two Golden Eagles and a Coyote fighting over a duck that’s been freshly killed. Yellowstone in the winter is a beautiful but harsh environment, not just [...]
The road under the car is covered in thick ice, the trees are covered in snow and a herd of frosty bison can be seen off in a distant valley as steam rises up from one of many geysers. We’ve just arrived in Yellowstone mid winter, possibly one of the most beautiful places on earth. [...]
Lets face it, if you had the chance to see some wild Pine Martens, you’d be more than happy to get up at 530am and drive for two hours along Yellowstone’s frozen valleys in sub zero temperatures to a location that has, in the past, been used by the BBC Planet Earth team, to photograph [...]
[Article Updated Dec 2011] It happens to the best of us. When you’re photographing wildlife, you never know what to expect and when. And I had a very good lesson in trying to remember to keep on top of my camera settings and not just shoot away, relying on the camera to do it all [...]
It’s been a long time coming, eight months in fact, but my two week winter wildlife photography trip to Yellowstone national park is here! We fly out on the 27th, where I’ll be doing daily updates via my Twitter/Facebook (internet/phone signal willing), and return on the 10th Feb. So what’s on the agenda and what [...]
Sitting on it’s nest in the 90 degree heat this adult Great Blue Heron would stretch out it’s wings, almost forming a semi circle around the juvenile, as if to shield it from the heat. It was lovely interaction between the adult and young, and I assumed that was the behaviour I was witnessing as [...]
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 [...]
