Our 2026 Wild Nature Photo Travel ultimate Snow Leopard of Mongolia workshop in January next year is now sold out – thank you. This is an all new itinerary that combines traditional approaches used to find and photograph Snow Leopard with photography from hides in the mountain regions. This is a new expedition I am very much looking forward to.
PS – Updates have been a bit thin and sporadic both here on the blog and on my podcast as I have been travelling extensively over the last two months. I will be back in Australia in approximately 12 days and will have trip reports from Grimsey, Svalbard and Iceland as well as several new podcasts.
Whoops! With all my workshop travel over the last month the regular monthly update for the photograph of the month almost slipped me by. This month the photograph of the month comes from my recently completed workshop to Grimsey Island (Trip Report Coming Soon) to photograph both Atlantic Puffins and Razorbills (listen to recent podcast on the Auto Focus performance of the Canon EOS R1). This photograph of an Atlantic Puffin was captured high on the bird cliffs during strong winds late in the evening. What really works for me is the combination of the Puffins wing position, the turn of its head toward the camera and the dark background of the distant ocean to isolate the subject.
I will be returning again to Grimsey Island next year (2026) for another workshop for these amazing birds. This workshop is specifically to photograph the Atlantic Puffin and Razorbills (and the many other Arctic bird species) that live on the spectacular bird cliffs found on this island. This intensive photography workshop will run from the 3rd of June until the 8th of June and is fully inclusive of comfortable and cozy guest house accomodation, food, return car ferry, in country transfers, photographic instruction – plus of course amazing photographic experiences! Early June is the ideal time to visit Grimsey Island as the we have the midnight sun for 24 hour photography. This workshop is limited to a maximum of just six photographers. Please get in touch if you would like to secure a place or would like additional information.
I have just published episode 124 of my Wild Nature Photography Podcast. In this episode, I dive into my thoughts on the auto focus performance of the Canon EOS R1 when photographing Atlantic Puffins and Razor Bills in northern Iceland on my recently completed workshop (Trip Report Coming Soon). This podcast also includes an onsite update on my Ultimate Polar Bear expedition from 81.4º degrees north in the permanent pack ice.
Today I am announcing a workshop in early June next year, 2026, to Grimsey Island, north of the Iceland mainland. This workshop is specifically to photograph the Atlantic Puffin and Razorbills (and the many other Arctic bird species) that live on the spectacular bird cliffs found on this island. This intensive photography workshop will run from the 3rd of June until the 8th of June and is fully inclusive of comfortable and cozy guest house accomodation, food, return car ferry, in country transfers, photographic instruction – plus of course amazing photographic experiences! Early June is the ideal time to visit Grimsey Island as the we have the midnight sun for 24 hour photography. This workshop is limited to a maximum of just six photographers. Please get in touch if you would like to secure a place or would like additional information.
I have just published episode 123 of my Wild Nature Photography Podcast. In this episode, I take a moment to acknowledge the passing of Sebastião Salgado – a photographer whose work documented mankind’s destruction of our planet. Those of you familiar with Sebastião’s photography will already know that he specialised in humanitarian documentary photojournalism. You may not be aware however that he was incredibly active in conservation in Brazil and that he was responsible for the replantation of millions of trees and the reconstruction of an entire ecosystem. Perhaps his most well known book ‘Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age‘ should be required reading for every photographer. This short video in which Sebastião discusses his career and his photography is well worth fifteen minutes of your time. It is a remarkable insight into a truly remarkable photographer. Watch the video here: VIDEO Also in this episode, discuss my upcoming back-to-back trips for the Atlantic Puffin in Iceland as well as the 18-day expedition to Svalbard for Polar Bears in the pack ice. These three trips present some unique equipment challenges making packing a difficult compromise.
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