Safari - UK style

I get more emails about my photographs of the Seals at Norfolk than anything else. Everyone seems to comment on them. So I thought I'd post a couple of photographs taken at Woburn Safari park.

It's fairly difficult to get a decent shot at Woburn as you have to keep your car windows closed as you drive around in order to avoid being a Lion's dinner or having a monkey steal yours. This means shooting through the glass. I used a Canon 70-200mm f2.8 lens for these.

Amy & Simon's wedding at Fawsley Hall on the 10th March 2007

Amy & Simon married on the 10th March at Fawsley Hall in Northamptonshire (www.fawsleyhall.com). This is the first of two weddings I have at Fawsley Hall this month.

Fawsley Hall has a long history with parts dating back to the 15th century. It was the family home of the Knightleys and like many old buildings has been added to over time with extensions by the Georgians, Victorians and Edwardians. The house fell into disrepair by the 1950's and was used by a timber company as a workshop, the roof of the Great Hall was removed in the 1960's. In the 1990's Fawsley Hall was restored including recreating the carved ceiling in the Great Hall and is now one of the finest country hotels in England. English Heritage have some great photographs of Fawsley dating back to 1896 which can be viewed online here.

Fawsley Hall is always nice at any time of the year but was especially so on this warm and sunny spring day.

Lunar eclipse photographs on Shuttergypsy

No sooner had I uploaded the photographs of the Lunar eclipse I started to receive a lot of emails asking how I had done it. In particular I received an email from Jennifer Browning, a US based Photojournalist (http://www.jenniferbrowningphotography.com/), asking if she could feature my photographs of the eclipse on her blog. The results can be viewed at Shutter Gypsy (http://shuttergypsy.blogspot.com/).

Photographing the Lunar eclipse

The challenge: photograph the stages of the Lunar eclipse which took place on the 3rd March. The problem: being a wedding photographer I don't have any need for long lenses and had to make do with a Canon 70-200mm f2.8 attached to a Canon 1DmkII. So much to the funny looks of my neighbours I stood outside in my garden in the cold for 3 hours with my camera and came up with this composite photograph.