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Latest News: The Cornwall Hospice Care calendar for 2011 has just been launched, this features 12 of David's landscape photos of Cornwall. You can buy a copy at any Cornwall Hospice Care Shop across the county. David has just been working on a project to photograph nightjars. The pair he has been photographing have now raised their second brood of two young for the year and that's good going for nightjars! Here is one of the photos he has taken on the rare occasion in July that we had a good sunset! .jpg) David has had three images shortlisted for the British Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards. In this case the images are of a midge swarm, taken using a slow shutter speed, a pied wagtail in a car park next to a car tyre and a robin perched on an old boot in his garden during the snow last winter. David has had an image shortlisted in the 'Bird Behaviour' section of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for 2010; his selected image is of a skylark preening amongst thrift. David will be making an appearance, if that is the right word, on Radio Cornwall on Thursday the 18th of March, 4.15pm on the Martin Bailie show. This will be to promote his new book, A Cornish Year. David is doing a book signing for his new book, 'A Cornish Year', at the Bookshelf bookshop in Saltash (58 Fore Street) on the 30th of March between 10am and 1pm. He would be very pleased to see you there! David has had an image selected as a finalist in the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition. This is in the section entitled 'wildlife in the garden'. His shot is of a great spotted woodpecker drumming, showing the movement in the head using a slow(ish) shutter speed. Have a look at his shot and the opposition at: http://www.igpoty.com/competition03/winners_LifeGarden.asp?parent=winners Those of you who follow David's successes may remember that he had a finalist in this competition two years ago, a toad under a toadstool, which ended up coming second in the section. Just in case you are interested, he didn't enter it last year. We will find out how the woodpecker has done some time during April. David's latest book entitled 'A Cornish Year' is to be published in March 2010. This book looks at David's wildlife activities through a year and is written in diary style along with anecdotes. It gives readers ideas for how they might get more involved with wildlife in Cornwall as it introduces a variety of groups, places and specialists who regularly lead walks and talks around the county. Priced at only £9.95 this book has lots of colour and interest. In many ways this is the follow up to David's most successful book, 'Wild about Cornwall'. See book page for details. David was awarded the 'Speech, Music and Drama' award by the WI for 2009; he received this trophy in October at the hall for Cornwall. It was given to David for his work in promoting photography to the Women's Institute through lectures, walks and workshops. David has provided all of the photos for the Trebah Garden 2010 calendar; visit Trebah to purchase a copy and see lots of David's cards! He is now putting together the images for their 2011 calendar. David's exhibition with Steve Jones at Geevor Mine was due to end in the spring but by popular demand it has been extended right through the summer and into the autumn of 2010; if you haven't been yet then do please try to get along, the whole exhibition looks great and has smells and sounds as well as photos! New books out in 2009 were about St Ives and Scilly; look at the book page for further information. |