James Bylett August 22nd, 2010
A new gallery is live from my latest workshop with Photographers on Safari at the Cat Survival Trust in Welwyn, a tricky venue to work at as they are not open to the general public and the cat’s cages were never designed with photographers in mind, so have fairly small wire which makes getting shots through it a bit interesting. I still managed a few passable results though and we were lucky enough to be able to see the stars of the day, which I think were the main reason the whole group of us were on this particular workshop, a pair of gorgeous snow leopard cubs less than 2 months old. Originally the intention was for them to be let loose on the grass with us for some truly special photos, however for health reasons they weren’t able to be allowed on the ground. Just to be able to see them at such close range though was a real privilidge in itself and at the end of the day, their health is way more important than any photo so we were all more than happy with what we were able to get. Even if the shots are never going to be prize winners, they’re still something that not many people will get the chance to do!
James Bylett August 4th, 2010
New gallery is online, photos of several birds of prey static and in flight from a workshop in Whissendine with Photographers on Safari and a local falconer, all set in a lovely enclosed wooded area on farm grounds. As it says on the album, I did toy with the idea of editting out the lead line that the birds were attached to but my limited editing skills render that more effort that it’s worth (if I didn’t end up making the shots look worse anyway!) and equally, although the shot might look a little better without it, I’m not trying to claim these shots as anything other than captive birds so I don’t see a great necessity for editing it out
James Bylett July 26th, 2010
Another new gallery is online, I visited Port Lympne Wild Animal Park with Photographers on Safari at the weekend where the main focus of the day was on their groups of gorillas. We also got to go on a vehicle safari around their huge open area that is home to a variety of herbivores. Photography conditions were pretty challenging for the gorillas with the sun unable to decide whether to peek through the clouds or not from one minute to the next, but I still got some passable results, and besides, if it was easy it would be boring 
James Bylett July 10th, 2010
Gallery from Wednesday’s trip to the fieldcraft Seminar with Andy Rouse at the British Wildlife Centre is now live. Well actually it was live about 1 o’clock yesterday morning but I’ve only just remembered to write a post about it. Cracking day was had by all in attendance and the new gallery shows my efforts to put all the good advice on offer into practice!
James Bylett July 8th, 2010
Had a fantastic day yesterday at the British Wildlife Centre on a fieldcraft seminar and evening talk with Andy Rouse, truly inspirational and so much useful information and advice to take away. We also got the chance to do some photography so I’ll have a new album to upload as soon as I get round to processing my shots, which will hopefully be later today but we’ll see how it goes as I unfortunately have a lot to do…
James Bylett June 23rd, 2010
Not very photography related post, but something I feel worth sharing. I have recently discovered a company called Graze, who deliver boxes of natural healthy snacks (mainly dried fruit and nuts but several other things too) with no added artificial colours, flavours or preservatives, to your door, and in signing up I have been given a discount coupon that can grant anybody else who signs up one free and one half price box (normal price is £2.99 a box).
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James Bylett March 29th, 2010
Another gallery online (turns out I’ve been procrastinating un-necessarily as most of the photos were pretty much ready for upload anyway!), this time for my holiday in Florida in March 2009, not many ‘proper’ photos, mostly touristy ones from Seaworld, but there’s a few half decent wildlife shots in there as well that I wanted to get online so thought I may as well chuck the lot together rather than creating a couple of albums with naff all in them!
James Bylett March 29th, 2010
Been a while since I’ve had any updates for the site, processing and upload of various batches of photos have been on the backburner for a while but I’ve finally gotten around to starting working through them and have uploaded a couple of new galleries and updated another. The UK Wildlife gallery has had a couple of new shots added (and one removed that I was never entirely happy with as it wasn’t very sharp but was the only half decent picture I had of a Robin until recently!) and I have added Floral and Landscapes and Scenery galleries. The former is a departure from my normal photography preferences but when I visited the Eden Project I was presented with far too many good photo opportunities to pass up. The Landscapes and Scenery one I have been meaning to add for ages but until recently (or rather until I finished processing my photos from last October’s holiday in Cornwall!) haven’t had enough passable shots to warrant a whole gallery, finally got a few together now and hopefully will have more to add over time. Still some more updates to come as and when I get round to processing some more of my backlog, hopefully sooner rather than later this time!
