Peter Cairns: has had plenty opf his images used on this blog in a guest blog, in other people’s press releases, in news about SCOTLAND: the Big Picture but also this image of a damaged landscape which I have used many, many times. Thank you Peter. Oscar Dewhurst: Oscar Dewhurst was 18 when he started…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer drinking
Oscar writes: I visited Bushy Park for the deer rut for the first time this year, as I had heard that the deer go in the water more than at Richmond Park. Sure enough this turned out to be true, with a large stag spending some time drinking in the early morning sun. I wish…
Oscar Dewhurst – Canada Goose
Oscar writes: this was taken earlier in the summer in Richmond Park, when there was a thick layer of mist over the pen ponds. There hadn’t been much deer activity, so I had a look on the ponds for any birds I could photograph before the mist burnt off, and luckily the flock of Canada…
Oscar Dewhurst – Three Red Deer
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Oscar writes: This is another image from Richmond Park, taken towards the end of September. It had been a cold night, so frost covered the ground, and I saw these three deer standing where I could get the flats in the background. Luckily they all kept the same pose for a while, giving me time…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer stag
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Oscar writes: I’m now back at university for a research masters, but before I left I had time to squeeze in a couple of visits to Richmond Park for the annual deer rut. The morning this was taken on was one of those magical sunrises where the ground is covered in mist, so shooting into…
Oscar Dewhurst – Beaver
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Oscar writes: while I was walking around Stanley Park in Vancouver, I got chatting to another photographer who mentioned that I had a good chance of seeing Beavers in one of the small pools towards the entrance. Later that evening, after a short wait, sure enough a family emerged from their den and treated me…
Oscar Dewhurst – Raccoon
Oscar writes: while I was in Canada, I had a day to myself in Vancouver, so jumped on a bus and headed to Stanley Park in the hope of finding some wildlife to photograph. The Raccoons there are very confiding, presumable because they are fed by the visitors there, so I spent a couple…
Oscar Dewhurst – Bald Eagle
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Oscar writes: One of my housemates at university last year lives in Canada, so as a post-graduation trip a few of us went out to see him for a couple of weeks. For part of this trip we spent a few days at their cabin, where a pair of Bald Eagles happened to have a…
Oscar Dewhurst – Black-tailed Godwit
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Oscar writes: During the summer I found myself in Suffolk for a few days, so spent an early morning in Minsmere’s East Hide in the hope of photographing some of the waders that were there. A couple of summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwits were feeding close to the hide, and their colours looked fantastic in the…
Oscar Dewhurst – Woodchat Shrike
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Oscar writes: These were very common where we were in Spain, and I was very keen to get some photos of them. Unfortunately they all seemed to have a preference to only perch on ugly wire fences or thick artificial-looking fence-posts. Finally, on our last day, I spotted this one on a thistle, which made for…