Volunteers are essential to the management of Nature Reserves. Kenfig Nature Reserve has two groups of volunteers, meeting every week. One group meets on Wednesdays to help with monitoring and identification of species, and the other on Thursdays to carry... Read More

Here are my favourite 5 images of 2022. I started doing this last year and settled on 5 photos, so now that will be my standard number of images I pick out each year. With so many glorious images to... Read More

I visited Kenfig Nature Reserve yesterday and was able to capture some images of the striking underwing patterning on an Orange Tip butterfly. These were some of my first images of butterflies captured during the 2022 season. No butterfly better... Read More

In my last post I visited Kenfig Nature Reserve and experimented with wide-angle environmental shots using my 3D laser printed model toad. I used ambient light along with the in-built focus stacking feature on the Olympus E-M1 MKII.  This training... Read More

In this article I’m going to reflect on a photoshoot I recently did while in the woods shooting with my model toad. I found inspiration from the wildlife photography of Petr Babousek.  Petr practiced illuminating scenes with artificial lizards and this... Read More

On visiting Kenfig Nature Reserve I was excited at having photographed what I thought was either a Dark Green or High Brown Fritillary.  These large and powerful butterflies can be seen flying rapidly in a range of open sunny habitats. The... Read More