CPAGB Success

In January 2021 I was successful in gaining the Credit Award for The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB). Here are the 10 images I used.

1. The Crested Tit was taken on the Rothiemurchus estate near Aviemore.

2. The Cuckoo with a Drinker Moth caterpillar was taken at a hide in Dumfries & Galloway.

3. The Male Nyala was taken in S Africa at a private game reserve called Zimanga. It uses a night hide set up by the Hungarian wildlife photographer Bence Máté who is credited with pioneering photography through one-way glass.

4. A mountain hare in the Cairngorms. Unfortunately, there was no snow but the touch of sleet adds to the atmosphere.

5. A red grouse taken on the edge of a moor near Inverness using the car as a hide.

6. Red squirrel taken on the Rothiemurchus estate near Aviemore.

7. Secretary Bird taken at Zimanga. It’s a huge eagle-like bird of prey, stands about 4 feet tall. In flight it looks quite like a stork. Original image was quite tight so I added more space on the left so that it had something to fly into.

8. Small blue butterfly which I took when it was roosting. You can see the dewdrops on the grass and on the wings if you look closely.

9. Sparrowhawk. Taken at a hide in Dumfries & Galloway.

10. A spotted hyena taken at the Zimanga overnight hide.

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LRPS Success

In March 2021 I was successful in gaining my Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS). Comments made by the panel members included:

Good atmosphere, some very precise focusing, good control over tonal range and some lovely use of light, especially in images 3 and 1.
A very well-engineered and creative panel, including a lot of experimentation
They liked the range of camera craft used, e.g. Intentional camera movement in image 8. Panning in image 7; use of macro in image 1; high shutter speed to freeze action in image 9; and plenty of evidence of decisive moment captured e.g. man walking in image 4.
Commenting on the layout they said that the 2-row panel layout had been well-considered with the 3 dark images evenly spaced on the top row, at the ends of the bottom row the animals looking into the centre row and the pairs of horses and pairs of dogs (images 7 & 9) providing further balance.