Welcome to the first issue of The Flack's Photography Newsletter! I am looking forward to hearing your feedback on the content, as well as what topics you would like me to cover in the future. Please share with your bird photographer friends and family. The more the merrier! The newsletter is designed for bird photographers, but should appeal to wildlife photographers, birders...
With only a few days to go before my flight to Beira, the excitement was palpable. It was almost time to search for the Holy Grail of African birding – the African pitta. I was heading to Mungari Camp in Coutada 11 (a 45-minute flight from Beira, Mozambique) to photograph birds in the Zambezi Delta area, which lies between Mwanza...
The photographic genre of birdscape, habitat or ‘birds in their environment’ images surely ranks as one of the most difficult to master. In essence, these are photographs in which the bird is small in the frame and is taken in a setting that typifies the species’ natural environment and adds a bit of background information for the viewer....
The current array of cameras and lenses available to photographers often means that a great in-flight photograph or a detailed close-up of a shy species is not necessarily sufficient to distinguish your image from that of others. Increasingly, photographers need to extend their creativity and think of ways to improve their craft. This is even more pertinent when it comes...
Bird photography is a tonic for my soul and the photographs I take form part of a memory bank of special people, places and occasions. Seven years ago I started taking my photography more seriously, using my wife’s 400D and 18–55mm lens. The birds I managed to photograph were incredibly small in the frame and the images included more of...
Africa currently has a number of ‘best birding destinations’, but Cameroon is probably quite low on the radar at present. That could change, as this Central African country supports almost 970 bird species, of which a fair proportion are ‘specials’ – and nearly a third can be found in Bénoué National Park....
Long ago, before the civil war, Mozambique had a well-deserved reputation as a hunting destination and the Coutadas (from the Portuguese word for hunting concession) in the centre of the country were the place to go. With peace restored, the hunters have returned – as have binocular-toting ‘hunters’ like Richard Flack....