Category: Photography
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The Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands archipelago is amongst the oldest in the Atlantic and actually predates the formation of the ocean itself, being formed of remnants of the paleogeographic supercontinent Gondwana. Situated in rich Southern seas, these ancient islands are home to a hugely productive marine ecosystem typified by large marine mammals and dense kelp forests. Centuries of human…
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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are quite literally the back bone of North America, stretching over 3000 miles from Canada in the North to New Mexico in the South. The Rocky Mountain National Park, accessed from Denver, Colorado, is a haven for wildlife and wilderness and a breathtaking destination for anyone with a passion for the outdoors. Visiting mid-winter…
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Caverns Measureless to Man
Gozo feels like an ancient island and with good reason: the fabled home of Odysseus’ besotted captor, the nymph Calypso, it also boasts the oldest surviving free standing human structures in the world, the Ggantija megalithic temples. In fact, the word Ggantija derives from the Maltese word for ‘giant’, as the stones used to construct these…
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A Sea of Dancing Rays and The Doors of Perception
I’ve recently returned from the Maltese Island of Gozo. The main Gozo post will follow shortly but I wanted to put something up in the meantime as these shots don’t quite fit there. So here follows a slightly disjointed musing with no particular theme other than thoughts inspired by my time spent under Gozoitan seas:…
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Expedition Oman
February saw me back in the Middle East and out on a shoot of a very different nature: it wasn’t about nature. A ‘typical’ natural history shoot might involve a very small crew operating in isolation in the wild for a number of weeks, usually tracking animals that have a frustrating propensity to run away.…