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I've added some cycling images to my adobe portfolio website, so I thought I'd share it with you. Biking pictures are in 'Events' and 'Riding'
It is very picture heavy, so is a bit slow to load, and although it should work on a phone it's definitely best on a PC or tablet.
Mostly road biking I'm afraid, but there is a bunch of King Alfred's Way pictures. Most of the riding pictures are just iPhone shots, but a few are with a dSLR.
Website was easy enough to do, and is included with an adobe subscription. I guess it is a bit limited in scope with no e-commerce potential and fairly basic, but seems to have unlimited storage as far as I can tell.
The wildlife stuff is beyond amazing 👏
Owl and raptor pics are fantastic!
I particularly love the one of the short eared owl, head on, eyeline level, that's wonderful
Wow! Very very good!
I love short-eared owls, one of my favourite birds. You have captured them so well.
Stunning! And I didn't realise that owls ate worms - what a great shot.
Thanks - I am very lucky in that a large number of those photos have been taken within a few minutes of my house, especially the raptors and owls. Hummingbirds are a bit further afield…
You’ve made my day!! Your photography is amazing, witnessing the wildlife is a big motivation for me to ride.
I regularly see Barn owls, Red Kites and Buzzards, lots of different wildfowl, Great White and Little Egret and annual visitors like Hobbies and the vast numbers of geese when out riding here in Norfolk and my plan is to spend my retirement cycling around the countryside with my binoculars and a camera. Your work is inspiring.
You are in the perfect place for it, all sorts of interesting stuff on the Norfolk coast.
Mind blown by those wildlife photos. Thanks for posting. Still looking at these.
Absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing that.
Cracking wildlife photos, I'm getting into wildlife photography but finding the days when I'm not working and the light has been good this winter has been a bit difficult.
Wildlife photography goes well with cycling - it’s basically just resting and recovering with a camera nearby. The only issue is that it costs even more than biking!
And yeah, light (or lack of it), is a killer in the uk. So much easier abroad.
Glad you’ve enjoyed them - I only posted the link ‘cos of the cycling stuff.
Im going to try and keep the website updated, but I put stuff on instagram fairly regularly. @tim_russon
Love the kingfisher sequence 🙂
The short eared owl, red squirrel and water vole photos are my favourites.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing – your photos are superb.
I particularly like the snow bunting against the white background, the heron amongst the tree branches, and the heads and antlers of the two red deer. The gannet's head and the mandarin duck are both very striking.
Will check back and look at the other sections when I have more time.
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Wow! The greater flamingo reflected in the water is simply stunning. 😃
Wow. Loved that
Incredible.
Love that fox on the menu page.
Absolutely brilliant images. 👌
I'd love to know the story behind how you got some of the images.
I imagine it involves hours of lying in bushes.
Never has a kingfisher stopped long enough near my boat to get a decent look at it. Do you use remote cameras etc?
We need a making of section, like at the end of Attenborough docs 🙂👍
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To make it commercial really easily, just add a price, dimensions and ask them to contact you directly for sales.
This is the kind of thing I have on my site. It is so much easier than paying for the money processing add-ons and while you might lose the occasional sale through customer reluctance to talk, those who do call tend to be much happier when talking and often become repeat customers.
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I’d love to know the story behind how you got some of the images.
And also what equipment you use, lenses and whatnot. I know it’s not all about the gear, but it’s still interesting. Fantastic pics btw.
Never has a kingfisher stopped long enough near my boat
Paddling the Wye, just approaching Hereford, I spotted a Kingfisher sat in a perch. I indicated to my mate that we should stop paddling and as we drifted past, the bird duly dived in the river, caught a fish and flew back onto the branch. We were about 6’away!! Something I will never forget.
Some absolutely stunning pictures! I'll be making my way through them discreetly at work today, thanks!
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I’d love to know the story behind how you got some of the images.
I imagine it involves hours of lying in bushes.
Yeah, pretty much this.
To be fair, it varies hugely depending on the species and picture. eg, the best kingfisher images were taken at a purpose built, buried hide so you sat at water level, and the birds fished in a small pond stocked with fish. There was only one perch, so you knew where they would come to. They are still fully wild birds though, so there are no guarantees - I was there for 12 hours, and in the afternoon there was a 5 hour period with no birds at all. Other kingfisher (and the dipper) shots were simply taken in a park in Sheffield.
The owls are all local to me, maybe 5-10 minutes away. But there are many, many evenings when I don't even lift my camera up to take a photo as nothing happens.
The foxes and badgers are in our garden, cultivated over many years of bribing them with chicken wings and peanuts. None of the shots are remotely triggered, the wide-angle fox was basically at my feet.
Hummingbirds are hard work, just so bloody quick and unpredictable.
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To make it commercial really easily, just add a price, dimensions and ask them to contact you directly for sales.
True, cheers, that would be easy to add. Not sure there is much of a market for photos as opposed to paintings, but it is no bother to add so I will try it.
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And also what equipment you use, lenses and whatnot. I know it’s not all about the gear, but it’s still interesting. Fantastic pics btw.
Hmmm, the gear does have a huge part to play, so it is mainly about the gear! - it'd be impossible on a phone or with basic kit. Some of these pictures are 14 years old, so over that time I have used Canon 40d, Canon 7d, Canon 5d2, Canon 1d4, Canon 5d3 and Canon 1DX, all bought secondhand. I have just bought a Canon R3 though, in preparation for a trip to Botswana in May. The R3 is so good it does feel like cheating.
Lens-wise I mainly use a 600mm f4 with 1.4x converter. Some shots are with a 100-400mm or 70-200mm though if the animal is larger or I want more background. Again, all were bought secondhand. Still weighs more and costs more than my bike though.
Loving the kingfishers, superb work.
Wonderful stuff 👏
Really enjoyed that, like Sandboy, i'm another North Norfolk resident, and had no real great interest in wildlife until i married a Norfolk girl and moved here, but most rides (especially dawn and dusk) and like a nature safari...i wish i had your skills to be able to capture it..
Your photo of the crested tit in the snow (first picture in the bird section) is superb.
Wildlife watching is a truly time consuming activity, hours of patience are required, however the payoff is worth it.
It's amazing what one can see when observing the world around you.
Last week I spotted a small lizard basking on a chalet wall in the sun on a warmish day, this was in the ski resort of Morillon, so not something I expected :o)
As mentioned above, we have just come back from the Chobe River area of Botswana / Namibia where we went for a 12 day photography trip. As you can imagine, I took rather a lot of photos, but I have managed to distil them down to the best ones and put them up on my website.
As some of you were interested previously, I thought you might enjoy these:
It was fantastic to see 5 species of kingfisher and 4 bee-eaters whilst the big draw of the Chobe region is the huge number of elephants. Most of the time we shooting from a small boat on the river which allowed brilliant views of the wildlife. We were also lucky that it was the time of year for the lilies which the elephants love to eat and added an extra dimension to some of the photos. Light was generally excellent, but early starts and late finishes meant that some of these pictures are over 20,000 ISO, especially when trying to keep the shutter speeds up.
lovely wildlife pictures 😀
am especially jealous of your little owl pictures as they are one of my favourite animals and i would love to see one one day (they are just awesome). i love all your other wildlife pictures too i must add.
<p>Thanks, little owls are reasonably plentiful across the UK, but can be very hard to spot if you aren’t sure where to look, especially as they are masters of sitting still and doing bugger all. I know of at least 5 pairs pretty close to my house, but they can still be pretty tricky to see. </p>