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GOOD NEWS IN 2021...AT LAST!

January 13, 2021

We are having a baby!

I have just processed pics I took the last time I was out with our Otters, which was a few days before Christmas...oh yeah and Happy New Year everyone! What a terrible start. Anyway having just gone through the images I am pretty sure this Otter above , who is called Éowyn, is pregnant. Look at her belly in all these images and there is a definite bulge. This is incredible news and means we should have a family in our main territory again in the next 3 or 4 months, just in time for nice warm spring and summer days!!

Éowyn is part of our citizen science project with the Mammal Society, about logging and identifying individual otters and learning much more about their behaviour. It is just so exciting to see this now bearing some fruit. It was only a few months ago that she left her pup Merry (which at the time I had thought very early). It now makes perfect sense. I had not realised when I started as to how rewarding collecting this data would be.

There is a downside though, I now have to worry about her and her unborn family. I have 3 kids, a new rescue puppy, a wonderful partner that keep my life incredible but also I fret about them all being healthy and happy, now I have to add this into the mix........

...seriously though it will be really interesting to see how this little drama unfolds, I have a few things to do before I am back to otter photography, but should be out with my camera next week so watch this space...and instagram..and facebook..

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How not to use my hides.....a professional guide to avoid my idiocy

By philipvprice • December 16, 2020

I spent an incredible day in my hide which is the first time it has been used since I dug it in to improve the photography angle and to stop it getting destroyed by every storm. Usually this is where I would then say 'to get great images you need to do this and that etc' which is what most photographers write about. I have decided to take a different approach mainly due to my slight (to great) incompetence on the day. Rather than hide my head in shame, I decided to do a 'how NOT TO guide' to wildlife photography in our loch side hide.

Otters Otters Otters

November 30, 2020

As some of you have read before if you follow anything I do, one of my main ambitions over the last year with my business is to try and incorporate effective and useful citizen science into our photography workshops. It means when you come along, not only do you get to take amazing photos (hopefully) but you will be contributing to the protection of that animal or the enhancement of it's environment. Due to Covid a lot of my ideas did not happen this year. However our Otter project did kick off and I have absolutely loved it!!

Common animals can sometimes make the very best photographic subjects

Don't forget what is all around us

By philipvprice • December 4, 2019

Common animals are all around us. And generally let us get very close to them which makes them ideal subjects for wildlife photography.

November 2019 - And we are back!

By Philip Price • November 14, 2019

This newsletter I am so so excited to say for the very first time I can combine my environmental work with delivering new workshops. Here's how it works. For most of my tours and some of my workshops next year, not only will you be able to get some incredible images and experience some world class moments you also get to genuinely help the animals or their habitat that feature on the tour or workshop. Here is a flavour of what we are doing: Red Squirrels Hours of incredible photography combined with tree planting to create more habitat for these amazing wizards of the forests. Beavers Great photography combined with helping the Argyll Beaver Centre with their camera trapping monitoring program. This is vital work for the national re-population of beavers in Scotland.