Colca Canyon in southern Peru is a remarkable place. At over 10,000 feet from top to bottom it is one of the deepest canyons in the world (almost twice as deep as the Grand Canyon). Colca Canyon is as deep as the Pyrenees are tall. We spent a few days enjoying the incredible scenery and … Read More
After spending a week in Uppsala for a DNA barcoding workshop as part of my PhD I decided to delay my flight home by five days so I could do some hiking and nature photography in Sweden. I rented a car on the Friday afternoon after the workshop ended and drove 500km north up to … Read More
From my time exploring New Zealand and Australia last year, seeing Dingoes on K’Gari was definitely the most goosebump-inducing experience! K’Gari, also known by the colonial name of Fraser Island, is the largest sand island in the world. K’Gari is a word from the local aboriginal people’s language that means “paradise”. With hundreds of kilometers … Read More
Last July, a friend and I went on a wild camping road trip around southern Norway. The highlight was definitely seeing musk oxen in Dovrefjell. Spending a couple of days watching and photographing these animals in the wild was an experience I’ll never forget. Musk oxen, which are more closely related to sheep than cows, … Read More
This July, a friend and I went on a wild camping road trip around southern Norway. We spent our days driving and hiking through the incredible landscapes and our evenings camping out in the wild. Norway is a nature photographer’s dream. The scenery is so dramatic and varied with jagged mountains, immense fjords and magical … Read More
Seeing glowworms was very high up on my to do list this year when I spent the austral summer months in New Zealand and Australia travelling around in a campervan. I loved the idea of standing inside a dark cave and being surrounded by hundreds of tiny, living stars, shining down on me. In the … Read More
The West Highland Way is Scotland’s oldest long distance walking route. It starts in Milngavie, just outside Glasgow, and finished 151km later at the base of Ben Nevis in Fort William. Every year, thousands of people from around the world complete the route. My corkonian companion, Sam, and I spent seven days at the end … Read More
During the summer, I spent 6 weeks on a South African reserve collecting data for my dissertation. While I was there I took over 4,000 images for a timelapse video. South Africa Timelapse | “Thanks, Benni” Six days into the trip my camera had a ‘falling-off-tripod-accident’ and was sent to camera hospital. Luckily, while my camera … Read More