Sunday 3 May 2020
My animals
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About Me
- Mike Attwood
- Evacuated during the second world war to a village in Yorkshire where I lived in the home of a good photographer for more than five years who taught me the basics and a great deal about nature. Well past retirement age I have been a wildlife photographer for more than 30 years. Red Kites have been my speciality for much of this period. I did spend several years snapping wheelchair athletes and organizing the British Road Race Championship. In the year 2000 I was awarded a distinction by the Royal Photographic Society for my portfolio on wheelchair athletes. Most of my pics are digital, using Sony cameras and Sigma lenses. I used to spend many weeks each year with friends in Wales which is close to the Elan Valleys where I got many of my raptor pics. I now get these pictures more closely to home, specially red kites and peregrines. I support my pension by selling my pics, cards, coasters, fridge magnets and key rings etc. at craft fairs, something I wish I had done much earlier in life. I give illustrated talks to clubs and societies on wildlife and other branches of photography that I have been involved in.
Great Mike.. Be safe.. :-)))
ReplyDeleteThankyou Ana, They have given me much pleasure and much work with the photographs. Stay safe,. Mike.
DeleteHow lucky you are to have all this wildlife visiting, Mike. My cameras (I currently have 3 out every night) are all set to video. You've got me thinking that maybe I should try stills! I think I'll give it a go on one of the cameras tonight.
ReplyDeleteTake great care, and stay safe - - - Richard
I'm a still man myself Richard. I tried video but prefer stills. I entice them in with tit-bits and they tell their friends and so it goes. Good luck and stay safe. Mike.
DeleteWell all I can say is that your garden must have a magic ingredient that animals like. Mind you, the average bod notices little that goes on around them in the wildlife stakes. I can well imagine those foxes strolling along as cars pass by. I hear so many stories about fearless foxes but none of those stories originate around here.
ReplyDeleteIt was by accident that I learned what went on in my garden at night. I knew I had an intruder and bought an infra-red camera and to my surprise it was a fox, at the time I was living in the middle of a town. I now live in a country village and with this lockdown I decided to dig the camera out and spend my time in the garden and put some tit-bits down to see what I could atract and I am delighted with the effort. That camera has taken as many as 590 shots in a night. I might get deer but I think my hedges are too high. Over the last two years I have recorded in my garden, wood mice, bank voles, hedgehogs, foxes and badgers. Stay safe. Mike.
DeleteCapture of good picture footage, Friend. It's nice to get a recording of wild animals.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Indoesia
Thank you and stay safe. Mike.
DeleteFantástica sesión del erizo, el zorro y el tejón, me han gustado mucho todas las imágenes. Enhorabuena Mike, un fuerte abrazo desde el norte de España.
ReplyDeleteSorry German, Still can't translate. I wish you well and stay safe. Mike.
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