Newsletter November 2009

FOTOGRAPHICIMAGES NEWSLETTER – Nov - 09

Sorry, believe it or not, it was

my sincere intention to get

the newsletter to you on time

Scottish Workshop Holidays?

As some of you may have already seen, one of our major television broadcasters, "Channel 4" transmitted a program Tuesday the 1st December entitled "Hotel Rescue by Ruth Watson". This program featured the location I have previously mentioned and called "Black Clauchrie". Black Clauchrie is located adjacent to the "Galloway Forest & National Park" and has just released a new series of residential wildlife workshops. These can all be found on their newly designed web-site.

For full details including dates, workshop itinerary’s, prices and ready to accept your booking on their new automated system. Why not visit their new website www.blackclauchrie.com

Here are some of the workshops already scheduled and currently being planned.

1) Birds of Prey weekends

  1. Wildlife weeks.

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  2. Autumn Wildlife weeks, including a "Red Deer" rut.

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  3. Autumn Fungi weekends.

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  4. Autumn Landscape weekends.

    5. "Stealth Gear"

The Outdoor Clothing of the Future

"Stealth-Gear" is achieving a great deal of excellent reviews regarding their new range of outdoor camouflage clothing and accessories, including hides. These reviews have been written by a wide and varied selection of some of the UK’s most well respected outdoor professionals including the extremely well respected natural history and wildlife photographer "Laurie Campbell". If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this gear, please feel free to drop me a line.

Although I have been constantly wearing the suit on my outings. I feel the ultimate test of this clothing will be on my forthcoming trip to Donna Nook. I will let know how the suit and I stand up to the horrendous north sea winds, gales and tides. www.stealth-gear.com

You may have also seen an article of mine

Recently published in the most recent SWPP magazine. Obviously this article is featuring the Stealth Gear clothing.

Donna Nook Common Seal Colony.

We are most certainly in the middle of another annual puping season of Common Seals. If your going over to Donna Nook, below are hints, tips, and guidelines to help the seals and also to ensure you getting some good pictures.

If you are going and would like to ask any questions, please don’t hesitate;

  1. Do Not get too close to either the adult seals or pups.
  2. Do Not Throw Sand at the seals to attract them to look at you.
  3. Do Not Attempt To Feed the seals.
  4. Do Not Get Between the seals and water when close to the water.
  5. Do Not Get Between the cow and the pup.
  6. Do Not Try To Touch/Stroke a seal or pup.
  7. Take Spare Batteries and memory cards.
  8. Only Change Your Lens’s when really essential. Sand will et everywhere without making it easy.
  9. Wear plenty of layers, use waterproofs, boots or wellingtons.

10)Last but by No Means Least.

Make a donation to the rangers which

will help to maintain the site and

provide an ongoing welfare policy for

the seals. This can be found at the

ranger station behind the wooden

fence barrier.

If You Would Like To Say Hello

Phone, 0151-426-1693 07765-514500

Email, john@fotographicimages.co.uk

Web-site, www.fotographicimages.co.uk

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