Let me share with you my personal story of how creating a book transformed my approach and gave me a newfound purpose as a wildlife conservation photographer.

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A few seconds later, the head of a terrified elephant seal appeared amongst the pod, its eyes wide open in alarm, a gaping tear visible in its left flipper.

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…many of the key target species are few in number and notoriously shy. Others only appear at night and will disappear at the first sign of human activity. Even in the daytime, the jungle canopy can often restrict the amount of available light for photography.

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I was the sole occupant of a mile-long stretch of beach, which is perhaps not surprising when one considers it was just past 4am…

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There was no Internet access, no cellphone signal and no landline in the old military portacabin that was to be my home for the next few days. There was a two-way radio but I had been advised that it would only be monitored in the evening.

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In summer the human inhabitants are joined by one of the world’s largest gatherings of seabirds including puffins; guillemots; gannets; fulmar; razorbills and kittiwakes.

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The photographic opportunities are quite simply endless. I set out to improve on last years images of puffins in flight; get some close-up portraits of nesting cliff-top birds with their young chicks and to capture the action around the puffin burrows.

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There were literally thousands of birds in the air, all circling the island in a clockwise direction. The scene, described by some as, ‘a wildlife wonder of the world,’ was simply jaw-dropping.

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