We are extremely grateful to the amazing photographers we work with, who support the Trust and allow us to use their outstanding photographs to illustrate our website and publications. Wildlife photographers not only understand the immense value of capturing the beauty and diversity of the natural world but also the potential of their imagery to contribute considerably to the vital conservation efforts of organisations like ours.
Laurie Campbell
With a life-long interest in the natural world and graduating with a degree in photography at Napier University, Laurie Campbell has been a freelance professional nature photographer, dedicated to documenting Scotland’s natural history, for over 40 years. His imagery is published across a range of media internationally and is widely recognised for its distinctive style.
Despite having produced and illustrated numerous books and winning competition awards, his most treasured accolade to date was to be voted for inclusion in ‘Highland Naturalists’, an exhibition featuring 30 people from the past 300 years whose work has significantly contributed to the understanding and enjoyment of the natural history in the Scottish Highlands. Similarly, in 2014 he was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award in the RSPB Nature of Scotland Awards in recognition of the lasting contribution his photography has made to conservation in Scotland.
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Tarquin Millington-Drake
Born in Sydney, Australia in 1965, Tarquin Millington-Drake moved to the UK in the same year and has lived there ever since. He has been a keen photographer since childhood, but his career in the outdoor travel industry has allowed for his development and training in utilising the immediacy of the moment on film. When travelling for only limited periods, opportunities have to be seized as they will not easily be repeated.
Now with camera always to hand, he is known for the way in which he sees the world in photographs. He likes to share those images that capture parts of life he feels are missed by people who are too busy in our hectic world to look up and look around them. In contrast, he also specialises in capturing moments in time which cannot be seen with the naked eye, but are fascinating when revealed: moments of action or wildlife intimacy, for example. Finally, he loves and excels at projects that illustrate or tell the story of a journey or way of life.
The GWCT stocks Tarquin’s book, Living With Greys.
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Emily Graham
Emily grew up and lives in rural northeast of England, and this, she feels, has connected her with nature, conservation and wildlife. She spends most of her time in the uplands photographing whatever it has to offer. She has become a birder over the years, and photographing any bird species is her favourite hobby, learning their way of life, watching them raise chicks, and telling their story to the wider public.
Emily feels imagery is an ancient way of communicating and telling stories, and it remains as valid or more so today. Whether it is the beauty of a wild animal, the life of a community, a journey or adventure or the relationship between man and nature, her passion is to use imagery to tell stories.
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Helge Sørensen
Helge is a Danish bird photographer born in 1966. Since he was given his first camera as a teenager, he has been carrying a camera along on birding trips. He is a stock photographer who takes images of as many species/subspecies as possible.
His main working area is Scandinavia – and is only missing three of the breeding species in that area (Manx shearwater, quail and barn owl). He also often travels to other countries in Europe and Asia, and has lived several years in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
David Mason
David Mason has lived and worked in the countryside all his life, he is now retired but spent his entire working life employed as a gamekeeper. For more than 40 years he has been photographing British wildlife with a particular interest in gamebirds, songbirds, deer and hares.
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In memory of Dave Kjaer
Wiltshire-based David Kjaer was a lifelong birdwatcher and naturalist who drew inspiration from what he observed in the natural world. He photographed wildlife for 30 years and turned professional, following a career as a police officer in the Wiltshire Constabulary.