{"id":2285,"date":"2014-03-29T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T11:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T12:10:09","slug":"look-whos-stalking-bespoke-photography-24032014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/look-whos-stalking-bespoke-photography-24032014","title":{"rendered":"Look who’s stalking; bespoke photography 24\/03\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday was a day with the potential to go either way, and I was nervous.\u00a0 I first met John when himself and Helen were on a North Sea pelagic<\/a> in June last year and we found this little beauty<\/a>.\u00a0 This trip was something altogether different though – Helen had arranged a one-to-one photography day<\/a>.\u00a0 Our one-to-one days focus on whatever our clients would like to work on – sometimes techniques (exposure\/composition\/fieldcraft etc.), sometimes species (Black Grouse, Otter <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Red Squirrel<\/strong> <\/em>are just some of the ones we’ve helped clients to photograph) – and John’s request was to develop his techniques for getting good images of shorebirds<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Now, using fieldcraft developed over 40yrs is one thing when I’m in the field on my own…teaching it, with our subject right where it can see us, is slightly more challenging \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I collected John from home in Morpeth and we headed north until we were in the impressive shadow of Bamburgh Castle<\/strong>.\u00a0 Purple Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Turnstone <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Eider<\/strong><\/em> were all approached with stealth and patience before we made our way down the Northumberland coast<\/strong> to Druridge Bay, stopping off and stalking Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Sanderling, Redshank, Grey Plover, Ringed Plover <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Dunlin<\/strong><\/em> and finishing the day’s photography with the slightly easier proposition of Reed Bunting, Blue Tit <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>Lesser Redpoll<\/strong><\/em> at a feeding station before admiring the Red-necked Grebe<\/strong><\/em> that I first found back in mid-February – now in a much more attractive plumage than it was five weeks ago.<\/p>\n

John very kindly supplied some of his images from the day, for which we’re very grateful, so here they are \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 You can click on them to see the full size images, and please do get in touch with us if you’d like to get more from your camera equipment.<\/p>\n

\"Common<\/a>
Common Eider<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Turnstone,<\/a>
Purple Sandpiper and Turnstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Oystercatcher,<\/a>
Oystercatcher<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Common<\/a>
Common Redshank<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Sanderling,<\/a>
Sanderling<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday was a day with the potential to go either way, and I was nervous.\u00a0 I first met John when himself and Helen were on a North Sea pelagic in June last year and we found this little beauty.\u00a0 This trip was something altogether different though – Helen had arranged a one-to-one photography day.\u00a0 Our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,141,16],"tags":[147,553,54,46,172,288,149,400,134,837,210,831,312,176,833,609,358,127,224,80,359],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-druridge","category-northumberland","category-northumberland-coast","category-photography","tag-bar-tailed-godwit","tag-bespoke-photography","tag-black-grouse","tag-blue-tit","tag-curlew","tag-dunlin","tag-eider","tag-grey-plover","tag-lesser-redpoll","tag-otter","tag-oystercatcher","tag-photography","tag-photography-tuition","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-red-squirrel","tag-red-necked-grebe","tag-redshank","tag-reed-bunting","tag-ringed-plover","tag-sanderling","tag-turnstone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}