Richard Peters Photography blog
Wildlife photography, shooting tips, videos, equipment reviews, location diaries and more!
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 [...]
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 [...]
With fur and limbs flying everywhere, six male hare fight each other and chase just a single female before finally, exhausted, she stops long enough for the males to attempt to mate with her – whilst at all times being constantly attacked by the remaining males! Sometimes the animal kingdom can be a harsh place. [...]
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! [...]
I hated the idea of video on DSLRs at first. Slowly I got more and more curious and wanted to have a go. Enter my recent upgrade to the D3s, and a couple of hours playing with its video mode, and I’m a huge convert! And I share with you now my first delve in [...]
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 [...]
EDIT: The bags are almost packed and the time is nearly here. Since I originally posted this the time has flown by and in just a few short weeks I’ll be surrounded by snow and wildlife! I know it’s a bit of a way off yet but just had confirmation through for a photo trip [...]
