About me
About me - Richard Ashbee
Seeing wildlife and trying to capture brief encounters with a camera is always challenging. When I started out back in the 1960’s with my first camera, a box brownie, even with its limitations I achieved a few good images. It stood me in good stead, as it developed patience, field skills and a great desire to improve the quality of photographs. I moved onto slides in the late 1970’s using a number of different SLR cameras, although one disadvantage was it always seemed an age for the slides to arrive back in the post.
You have to be ready for any opportunity so have your camera ready at all times, you will probably find me staggering around various locations with my Nikon D90, sigmonster (800mm lens), 1.4 converter, manfrotto tripod and Wimberley head, not forgetting binoculars. Wish I was fit!!
Having moved onto digital in 2005, using a Nikon Digital system has solved one major problem, you can view an instant image. Another advantage with an ever expanding collection of digital photographs, currently over 15, 000, it is a lot easier to sort through images on the computer than slide by slide. No need to bother about costs as you can delete unwanted images.
I have always found that taking a photograph slows you down so you can start to appreciate the bird, flower, insect or landscape in front of you, focus on detail that you never saw before and hopefully come away with some good images.
Photography is a great medium to show people and hopefully inspire them to take a closer look at nature, even it is only in the back garden.
I have undertaken numerous illustrated presentations for the Woodhouse Wildlife Group and other groups and have just started to submit images to magazines. My travel take me to various places in around Yorkshire, north to Shetland and Scotland, Norfolk, Derbyshire and across the water to France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Luxemburg
Seeing wildlife and trying to capture brief encounters with a camera is always challenging. When I started out back in the 1960’s with my first camera, a box brownie, even with its limitations I achieved a few good images. It stood me in good stead, as it developed patience, field skills and a great desire to improve the quality of photographs. I moved onto slides in the late 1970’s using a number of different SLR cameras, although one disadvantage was it always seemed an age for the slides to arrive back in the post.
You have to be ready for any opportunity so have your camera ready at all times, you will probably find me staggering around various locations with my Nikon D90, sigmonster (800mm lens), 1.4 converter, manfrotto tripod and Wimberley head, not forgetting binoculars. Wish I was fit!!
Having moved onto digital in 2005, using a Nikon Digital system has solved one major problem, you can view an instant image. Another advantage with an ever expanding collection of digital photographs, currently over 15, 000, it is a lot easier to sort through images on the computer than slide by slide. No need to bother about costs as you can delete unwanted images.
I have always found that taking a photograph slows you down so you can start to appreciate the bird, flower, insect or landscape in front of you, focus on detail that you never saw before and hopefully come away with some good images.
Photography is a great medium to show people and hopefully inspire them to take a closer look at nature, even it is only in the back garden.
I have undertaken numerous illustrated presentations for the Woodhouse Wildlife Group and other groups and have just started to submit images to magazines. My travel take me to various places in around Yorkshire, north to Shetland and Scotland, Norfolk, Derbyshire and across the water to France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Luxemburg