Over the last 2 or three years, I’ve paid a few visits to a local zoo (Banham Zoo). There’s a real challenge in trying to take pictures that don’t give away the fact that they were taken in a zoo setting, especially if they have to be taken through fences or glass. It’s not always...
Our recent trip to The Gambia didn’t work out quite as well as we’d hoped, but we still managed to spend a fantastic few hours with the Vervet monkeys in Bijilo Forest Park, and saw a few Hornbills while we were there. One again, the bright-but-dappled light was a bugger to shoot in but I...
Photos that is, not people. Just realised that I had a few odds and sods from November’s trip to The Gambia that I hadn’t got around to posting – and thought I’d better do so quickly before we head off there again :) So here are a few birds (more to show some more of...
Charlie the Crocodile, that is. Not far from Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, is a town called Bakau, in which you will find the Kachikally Crocodile Pool. The most famous resident there is, apparently, called Charlie. Charlie and his chums are so tame that they can be petted. Yes I did. Briefly. Very briefly....
