Poetic Timing Three days after Pablo Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in his native country of Chile in the autumn of 1973 after having been very ill for some weeks before, he died of heart failure on September 23rd at the age of 69. However, it wasn’t in just any month that Neruda’s final days … Read more
Taking a photograph is always a compromise between the available equipment and the quality of the light. In the middle of the day with the sun overhead, there is plenty of light but things do not usually look at their best. Waiting for the right light isn’t an option if the subject will not hang … Read more
Hunted to Near Extinction Red kites are one of the United Kingdom success stories of the past twenty years, but they were hunted almost to extinction in the nineteenth century, with just a few birds left in the wild in Wales. They were reintroduced into the UK 1989 at the initiative of the Joint Nature … Read more