HOWARD'S BIRDSPOT: Marsh Harrier with coot chick picture gains more recognition.

Saturday, 26 November 2011

Marsh Harrier with coot chick picture gains more recognition.

The latest acolade for this photo is a finalist position in the UK wildlife photography competition 2011. That added to having already been published in the Wildlife trusts summer magazine, It was also published in the Metro national newspaper article on the WWT photo competition 2011 in which it is an entry, (21st oct edition 2011, page 34) Also it won a notable picture in the photo of the week competitin on the birdguides website. It is also licenced for sale by Rex features on Getty Images through WWT. Fantastic results for an image I instantly Knew was something very special from the moment I first saw it on the camera screen. It's also entered in 3 other cometitions, so I hope it does well. It's also available to view as a large canvas at the Far Ings national nature reserve new visitors centre in Barton upon Humber. Below are links of interest for this picture.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/879216-stunning-images-show-life-and-death-in-shrinking-wetlands
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/photo/bird-photos2011#cr
http://www.birdguides.com/iris/pictures.asp?v=1&f=300154
http://www.fotobank.ru/image/R042-8661.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8933057/Hare-wins-wildlife-photo-award.html?image=2

2 comments:

Unknown28 November 2011 at 18:20
Superb Howard
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Mick West30 November 2011 at 19:52
Well done Howard, it's a great image!!
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Hello and welcome to my blog. Firstly, I am not a professional photographer or a bird or wildlife expert. Most of what I have learned about photography and wildlife or birds is self taught from books or what I have learned from friends and wildlife photographers and birders. I owe a lot of my sucess to friends and photographers for their guidance. I am still learning and have many subjects I still want to photograph. I am very passionate about birding and bird photography. All of my subjects are wild birds or wildlife in the wild. I do not photograph captive birds or wildlife in a staged setting. It's just not my thing. I get no satisfaction from photographing captive sujects. That's not being disrespectful to those who do, I'm just not comfortable with it, and would rather go without pictures of rare subjects than take photos of captive ones. I do however respect the work of captive breeding programs and caring for injured birds and wildlfe. I belong to the local bird study group which records breeding birds on my local reserve. This has helped me to gain increased results in locating species to photograph from an increased knoledge of birdsong and bird behaviour. I have enjoyed increasing sucsess with my work in having work published in books and magazines including birdwatching magazine, in national newspapers and countless web features and articles. I was also the winner of the 2011 wildlifextra.com national photography competition "birds" category. leading to the publishing of the winning picture in the competitions book. The same picture is liscensced for sale by Getty Images through the Wildlfe and wetland trust, who featured my photo in a published article. My photo's have featured many times on flickr explore. I have also had pictures feature on the BBC springwatch red button site on television and have received the Springwatch photo of the day award. I've also had them used during the BBC and ITV weather forecasts and on the BBC Earth and BBC Nature websites. I also featured in a BBCTV look north feature shown on BBC 1 about my competition win and my love of photography on the Far Ings Nature Reserve. Thank you for visiting, and I hope you enjoy viewing my pictures. Please feel free to contact me with regard to using any of my images. I rarely refuse, but do like to know where my images are being used. I don't sell my images in print format due to the fact that I don't have the time at the moment as I am in full time employment. If you have any questions regarding my photography please contact me via email.