Great White

I recently called a post "Little White" wich was about the Sanderlings on the UK beach where i host my Grey Seal workshops. Now i thought it was time for a post on "Great Whites". The sharks..??? no...i am sorry...we are still talking about birds..





The Great White i refer to is the Great Egret (Casmerodius alba) wich is a winter visitor to our country and is usually quite hard to approach but as winter is kicking in over here and temperatures are dropping hard the Great Egrets have become more easy to get close to. And so here's a small species report on these beautiful Egrets.





There is a place where the Great Egrets gather at night to rest near my home and this is always my starting point for photographing these white hunters. From there on i head out to different streams in the area where i can find them fouraging.

Grey Seal and Red Deer Workshop II Report

The new year has started and i have a lot of catching up to do..
So first of all i would like to wish all of you a Happy and healthy 2010 with loads of photographic highlights! May the light be with you!

As said i have some catching up to do as i have been very pre-occupied with my health and prepairing new workshops etc etc. I will tell you more about the new workshops wich i will be hosting in co-operation with UK based photographer Craig Jones soon but for now a report on a workshop i hosted in the UK in December 2009. It was another Grey Seal and Red Deer workshop and again the weather was great and we had a very good time. Besides Grey Seal there are always a couple of Common Seals around if you look closely.





Here is a small report of the workshop. For those of you that might be interested in joining me on one of my group or 1:1 workshops just send me an e-mail: info@jeroenstel.com





Then the Red Deer part wich is always a good time spent..

The workshop is called a Grey Seal and Red Deer workshop but besides the Red Deer there are also several groups of Fallow Deer in the area wich makes the Deer part more interesting. Here are some of the results we got dureing the Red Deer and Fallow Deer workshop.





For this workshop i was in the company of some lovely ladies called Frederique, Jaqueline and Sandra and i took a few pictures of them during the workshop in order to give future participants an idea of how this works..





And some more Red Deer..

Little White

I went over to the UK to host several workshops on Grey Seals and Red Deer recently and when i am on the beach to photograph the Grey Seal i am always on the lookout to spot these lovely little birds too. These are Sanderling (Calidris alba) wich we call Drieteenstrandlope in The Netherlands wich is translated as "three-toed-beach-walker".





They are agile and nervous little birds and getting them running by is always a huge challenge but one i am more then up for.