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Monday, 25 December 2023

Christmas Greetings to you all


 

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Thursday, 14 December 2023

White Kite

I spent many years traveling to the Elan valleys in Wales to practice my photography. I made some great friends there spent many a week over the years collecting my photo's. A white kite is not another species but a bird that hasn't developed a red pigment to colour its feathers so it remains white. 
I have only come across four birds of this nature in the past thirty years. It does occur in other species
These photographs were taken mainly on a farm that I visited several times a year. 
I no longer travel to Wales as my friends are no longer with us. Just occasionally a red kite flies over my house where I live just to remind me of the wonderful times I spent with my Welsh friends. I have in stock over 2500 photographs on the welsh red kite.
                                           DEDICATED to  EITHEL  and  LENA  POWELL  

                                                                     GIGRIN FARM
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Sunday, 10 December 2023

My secret fox haven

 

This is a selection of pictures taken at one of my locations of a few years ago. I am displaying these as it beyond my capabilities to venture out because of my age (86) and abilities.
They are all wild foxes and live in a corner of a private woodland where the owner does not allow the general public access. He loves animals as much as I do. So I vowed to keep the location a secret. 
The animals have learned this is a safe place and are looked after and have become very sociable and accept visitors as friends.
So for their sake I  shall keep the secret safe. 

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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.