Visiting a friend in Norfolk

[Elldee]

Hi Never posted on here before...

I have been trying to book a wildlife photography workshop around 22 september but with out any luck.. is there anyone in Norfolk Fakenham!! Might be able to help me out. It would be very much appreciated if I can get some help or where would be the best place for me to do some wildlife photography..I'm an amatier wildlife photographer

Many thanks
Elldee

[Tringa]

Don't now where you are going in Norfolk and cannot suggest a course, but if you are close to the north Norfolk coast then you have one of the most wonderful places in Britain.

Just go and take lots photos in Cley, Blakeney, Wells-next-the-Sea, Holkham, Brancaster Overy Staithe, Brancaster Staithe and Titchwell.

Dave

[JeffH]

Hi Elldee and welcome to WAB.

Professional wildlife photographer David Osborn does one-to-one and group workshops in Norfolk - see this page of his website for more details -
DAVID OSBORN NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY - Photo-tours & Workshops

Hope that helps

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers, Barn Owls & Avocets)

[Elldee]

Yes, All the information will help me so much..

.. I have checked out some of your images on your site and on WAB site....... Have one or two words...

WOW !!! Fanstatic.....


I have nothing like that on my website.... I sure wished I had.

Well done
Elldee

About me
this is of course my website..... let me know what you think if you have time to spare to have a look..

Thanks
Elldee

[Picidae]

Elldee, last time I was up in Norfolk a few weeks back, I visited Little Walsingham (about 10 min drive from Fakenham) and spent a long time chatting to a guy who's just opened up a Gallery and photo workshop in the High Street in Little Walsingham. It may be worth you popping in (your friend will know how to get there or there's a bus from Fakenham). He's very friendly and is currently being sponsored by Swarovski to try out some new optics. He told me about workshops etc that he was setting up from the Gallery base but has been involved with running birding photographic trips for many years. He may be just your guy or will certainly put you in touch with other local photographers if he's not. (He's published btw). Sorry can't remember his name and have lost the card he gave me! There's only one high street in the village (it's very small) and only one wildlife photographic Gallery so you wouldn't have any trouble finding it.

[solus]

Originally Posted by Elldee

...About me...
this is of course my website..... let me know what you think if you have time to spare to have a look..

I have had a very quick look and notice that some of your bird pics are incorrectly named. Two of the "Tufted Ducks" are Red-crested Pochard, the third also isn't a Tufted - my mind is blank at the moment as to what it is and I can't look at my books right now; the "Herring Gull (Juvenile)" is a scruffy adult and I'm not sure off-hand what the wader taken in The Gambia is, but it is not a Snipe! Sorry, you did ask and I personally think if you are going to have photographs on a publicly-accessible website then it is important that they are accompanied by the right information.

EDIT: The wader might be a Terek Sandpiper but I'm really not sure - better wait for someone with more experience of the species/location to come along. What time of year was it photographed?

[Elldee]

Hi

Yes! I did ask.... I would rather have correct name's then for my site to have the incorrect information...I will correct them this evening..

Many thanks to you.

Elldee

[birding dave]

I've had a look too, and your thistle is in fact a teasel!!!

Also, there is no apostrophe in the plural of gorilla!!

[Elldee]

Hi


Thank you for your help


Elldee

[JeffH]

Originally Posted by Elldee

Yes, All the information will help me so much..
.. I have checked out some of your images on your site and on WAB site....... Have one or two words...WOW !!! Fanstatic.....I have nothing like that on my website.... I sure wished I had.

Well done

About me
this is of course my website..... let me know what you think if you have time to spare to have a look..Thanks Elldee

Thanks for your kind words Elldee - much appreciated

I've a had a look at your site and you have some super images.

My only comment (and this is a purely personal view which many others may not agree with!) is that as a number of your images appear to be of captive subjects you should perhaps describe your site as 'Elldee Wildlife and Nature Imaging'. You might even consider marking your images of captive subjects as 'captive' so as to distinguish them from true wildlife photographs.

The reason for this is that the term 'wildlife' is regarded by many photographers (and non-photographers) as implying subjects photographed in the wild and this point has been quite a topical issue of late. Whereas the more general term 'nature' photography can legitimately be applied to all manner of animal subjects, whether wild or captive, and also to plants of course.

Just a thought

Jeff
(Schedule 1 Licence holder for Kingfishers, Barn Owls and Avocets)