by Wilf James | Dec 19, 2016 | Featured Photographer
My style of photography is very personal to me with macro being my favourite way to capture the beauty of nature. I am always looking for the small intricate details that people just seem to pass by and a lot of my work usually features one or two flowers or insects in the foreground focusing on their individual beauty and colours.
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by Wilf James | Dec 12, 2016 | Competitions, Featured Photographer
I have recently been honoured with the title “Landscape Photographer of the Year” for my winning image of Starling Vortex – a photograph which captures a starling murmuration around the ruins of Brighton’s West Pier.
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by Wilf James | Dec 5, 2016 | Competitions, Conservation
In our second article featuring those wonderful, amazing and hilarious photographs from The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards which states “Conservation Through Competition” and it couldn’t be a more fun way of doing so. We all like a good chuckle...
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by Wilf James | Dec 2, 2016 | Classic Cameras
If you recognise this image, half photo half nothing then you will remember shooting film. If not then you may have begun your photography in the digital age. There was even someone who published a book of the first frame once the film had been loaded in the camera....
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by Wilf James | Nov 25, 2016 | Competitions, Wildlife
Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards, Angela Bohlke from the USA snatched the top prize in both the Overall and On the Land categories with her entertaining picture of a fox face-planting in the snow, which she captured in Yellowstone National Park.
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by Wilf James | Nov 14, 2016 | History, Photography
In Conversation with Colin O’Brien By Philip Gray Colin O’Brien took his first photographs of daily life in post-war London in 1948: he hasn’t stopped since. Still an enthusiastic and very active photographer*, his latest book, London Life, contains an extensive...
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by Wilf James | Nov 7, 2016 | Conservation, Wildlife
The Bornean orangutan was officially listed as critically endangered, there is no doubt that orangutans are on the edge of extinction. Tim Laman, winner of both the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and The Wildlife Photojournalist Award Story, shows in his tragically beautiful images the story so far.
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by Wilf James | Oct 31, 2016 | Africa, Wildlife
Shot in timeless black and white, The Mara is an intimate, atmospheric record of the ebb and flow of daily life in Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve. Anup Shah has long been recognised as one of the masters of wildlife photography and here he returns to the land...
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by Wilf James | Oct 24, 2016 | Adventure, Competitions
A young male orangutan makes the 30-metre (100-foot) climb up the thickest root of the strangler fig that has entwined itself around a tree emerging high above the canopy. The backdrop is the rich rainforest of the Gunung Palung National Park, in West Kalimantan, one of the few protected orangutan strongholds in Indonesian Borneo.
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by Wilf James | Oct 17, 2016 | Featured Photographer, Paris
Truth be known, I am flattered and even somewhat amused to be invited as this month’s Featured Photographer. If you read the About page on my almost-photo-a-day blog FocusOnParis.com – I often skip Sundays – the first thing I point out is that I don’t...
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