Red squirrels, goshawks, roe deer – quiet walks in our local woodland in recent weeks have given us some great, if fleeting, glimpses of all three shy species, but when it comes to capturing the spirit of the woods on...

A funny thing happened on the way to photograph curlews for a UK magazine article earlier this summer. We were waylaid by a family of fox cubs playing around their den, about a half mile from our home. It was...

The light’s going now. It’s coming up to 10pm and we’re driving back home; chatting, unwinding and taking in the expansive views. We’ve just been on a post-dinner ‘game drive’ along the local backroads of Northumberland National Park – our...

It’s National Meadows Day in the UK today, celebrated each year on the first Saturday in July. It puts the spotlight on those precious patches of flower-filled grasslands that are at their beautiful best right now. Having lost more than...

Supremely photogenic, slinky, regal cheetah can nevertheless be the trickiest of the big cats to photograph well. Built lean and long for explosive speed it requires reflexes and shutter speeds as lightning fast as their own to hold focus and...

Shorts. T-shirt. Wash. Teeth. One Woolworth’s oat cookie. Two bites. One cup of tea – three big gulps. Torch. Keys. Don’t forget the small cool-bag. ‘Come on!’ Outside. No clouds. Cool. Although it’s already 24 degrees. Still it’s cool there’s...

You never really know when you capture an image and submit it for stock, just how, where, and even if, it will end up getting used. Our images have turned up in some unexpected places over the years, for example,...

One species has popped up with surprising regularity on most, if not all, our recent visits to South Africa. It’s probably not one that would immediately fly into your mind. The spotted eagle owl. Saucer-eyed, barrel-bodied, cryptically-coloured with a finely-barred...