Richard Peters 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 [...]
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 [...]
One species I had not seen before, but knew could be found in Florida, is the Burrowing Owl. So I decided to spend some time photographing them at a couple of locations in the sunshine state…as well as recording my first ‘On Location’ video to give you an idea of the conditions I experienced, and [...]
Bitten by red ants, bitten by mosquito’s and stuck out in the open during a massive thunderstorm! I’ve just returned home from Florida, where the week was spent mostly trying to avoid said thunder storms, lightening (the worst storm produced 20,000 strikes in 4 hours!) and with not a single sunset to be seen the entire [...]
