Between the Tides – Photographing Waders.

It is the first afternoon of 2016 and I'm standing in the tidal zone of a very beautiful place - Boundary Bay, which sits on the border between Canada and the United States on the north western coastline of North America. The bay extends into both countries - geology doesn't care about our version of the World - or it didn't the other evening when a magnitude 4.2 earth tremour spilled piles of books and pictures across my home office floor. There is something very special about the tidal zone, it is one of only a few natural environments that…

Into the Woods – Wildlife Photography as a Surrealist Nightmare.

In Search of the Varied Thrush. The varied thrush is not a rare bird where I live on the Lower Mainland. B.C.. Usually it overwinters in lowland forest and scrubland, but with ever increasing urbanisation many of its natural habitats are disappearing. Worldwide, woodland birds are under pressure as our numbers continue to rise and many natural areas are given over to agriculture, industry and housing. Once, when a student, I went for a jog in Central London. Setting out from my hall of residence in South Kensington at 5.00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon I ran diagonally across Hyde…