Beautiful Baja – Landscapes and Architecture

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Landscape Photography Holiday

Baja California Sur – Mexico

February 1st – February 7th 2013

Price: €1.995 This holiday is priced in Euro

Tour Leaders: Chris O’Dell BSC & Nic Slocum PhD, FRGS

Whales World Wide in association with The Wildlife Film School is running a small group Landscape Photography expedition toBaja CaliforniaSur,Mexico – February 1st to February 7th 2013. This is a fully guided landscape photography expedition (with a bit of wildlife thrown in!) to this unique and beautiful land of deserts, mountains,… Read More

The Wildlife and Wild Places of Baja

Brown Pelican in the mangroves

Wildlife Photography Holiday

Baja California Sur – Mexico

February 1st – February 7th 2013

Tour Leaders: Sheena Jolley & Nic Slocum PhD. FRGS

Whales World Wide in association with The Wildlife Film School is running a small group Wildlife Photography expedition toBaja CaliforniaSur,Mexico – February 1st to February 7th 2013. This is a fully guided wildlife photography expedition (with a bit of landscape thrown in!) to this unique and beautiful land of birds, whales, fur seals, dolphins, deserts, mountains, sea and islands. Your photography guide will be the well known Irish wildlife photographer Sheena Jolley.

The Baja peninsular inMexicohas… Read More

Fabulous Wildlife and Landscape Photography Opportunities in Baja…

San Javier mission...

Having just returned from leading a group of wildlife enthusiasts out to Baja, Mexico I have to report on the stunning wildlife and landscape photography opportunities that exist there.

Fantastic desert landscapes abound in the mountains of The Sierra de la Giganta and among the offshore islands. Very different from the traditional landscape vistas we are used to in Europe and extremely challenging with the changing and variable light conditions.

For the bird and wildlife photographer there are a many opportunities. Unusual birlife includes the turkey buzzards and magnificent frigate birds along with old favourites like the blue footed booby and brown… Read More

WESTCORKTIMES.COM

There are few times that I am so impressed by an inititaive that I wish to
blog it, but working out of Bantry, Clare Farrelly and David Forsythe have
created the West Cork Times, www.westcorktimes.com a unique and unusual
online presence that brings news, views and articles to West Cork locals and
visitors and any others wishing to keep abreast of developments in West
Cork. A logical and easy navigation backs up this well laid out site making
perusal of the news a pleasure.  West Cork Times is an online news hub
covering issues from the environment to education and

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Lovely images taken by attendees at the recent Digital Photography Course run at Liss Ard House 28th January

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Simon King filming Great White Shark attacks on seals…superb!

Some lovely footage obtained by Simon King of Great White Sharks feeding on fur seals off South Africa…just shows what goes into getting a 10 second sequence.

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http://focusingonwildlife.com/videos/?p=363

Lovely camera trap video from Thailand’s western forests…

This is alovely bit of footage captured on camera trap equipment in the western forest area of Thailand's Huai Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuary. It is a fine example of how quickly wildlife can recover when there is a will on the part of a local government...WWF and the Thai government have worked hard to ensure protection of these western forests...click here to read more and see the footage

BAJA-CALIFORNIA-SUR

Humpback Whale Breaching

Ahoy there photographers! Fancy leaving behind this overcast and cold winter weather? Heading out to sunny climes and indulging your one great passions – photography? Then join us in Baja, Mexico this February…

We are running a wildlife and landscape photography holiday to Baja California Sur, Mexico - Saturday, February 25th to Saturday March 3rd 2012. This is a fully guided photography expedition with Chris O’Dell BSC and Nic Slocum PhD. Detailed resumés for both guides are provided below.

Our Mexican destination will be the lovely old town of Loreto which was the first Spanish settlement on Baja California… Read More

Stunning image of an adult polar bear predating a younger animal of the SAME species…

Cannabalism is not common in Polar Bears but as Arctic Sea ice retreats in the face of climate change we may see this type of behaviour more frequeently…

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The Veolia Wildlife Competition 2012 – call for entries

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The Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine are proud to announce that award-winning environmentalist, nature photographer and film-maker, Jim Brandenburg, will be leading the 2012 international jury.

With a career including over 10 years as newspaper photojournalist, 30 years as a contract photographer for the National Geographic Society, and a raft of commissions from renowned organisations such as the NHK and BBC, Jim has said of the Competition:

“Wildlife Photographer of the Year is held in the highest esteem by the photographic community – it remains the one competition that each and every photographer wants to win above… Read More