June '08
Welcome to the June news letter and our new look website. I hope you enjoy looking around the new galleries and pages.

Announcements:

Loch Visons wins another award
Best economic and community impact tourism award - top prize click here to read more

Follow on Experience
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out are now available, spaces are going so please book early.

Guests
Pictures from one day experiences - 10 May:3 June '08

Guests from our Follow ons
Sensational images from our Follow On and Extended Wildlife experience and available for viewing now. click here

Loch Visions launches Online ordering of Gift Vouchers - click here to buy vouchers online

Stories and pictures: Black Guillemots and Hedgehogs

What a month, May is generally good but recently the weather has been astounding, which is fortunate due to the fact that Black Guillemots in flight were my main goal this month. I'd attempted flight shots last year with reasonable success but did not achieve what was floating around in my head. With some new kit (dry suit and gimbel head being the most important) I had high hopes for this year. The fantastic thing about these sensational little animals is they always do a huge loop before flying into their nest holes situated all along Oban bay. This gives the eager photographer all the time in the world to find them in the view finder and just follow them in…. not quite that easy unfortunately. However a few thousand shots later and finally some pictures were in the can. As much fun as this all was - the most fantastic moment was when standing shoulder deep in the water, a wee Guillemot swam right up to me and started nosing my dry suit. To be that close to such a handsome bird is simply mind blowing, to be able to do it in a built up area such as Oban is also hugely encouraging. See main image and thumbnail for action shots.

Now to something completely different, one evening while walking down the lane outside the studio I heard a faint rustling, the closer I got the more vigorous the noise became. I finally located the culprit and to my astonishment it was a hedgehog rolling all over a toad. The thumbnail shows a resting moment for the Hedgehog in its titanic struggle, if you look closely at the picture you'll see foam over the Hedgehog's spikes where it speared the toad. The picture looks like the two of them are quite at peace, unfortunately for the toad it is a struggle to the death! Nature is fantastic.

At the beginning of the month I went on an excursion to photograph some Dotterel, no Dotterel but luckily I shared a few moments with some Ptramigan, - see thumbnails.

I hope you all have had some wildlife adventures over the last month, please do check out the gallery pages as guests form our one day, extended and follow on experiences all have pictures up for viewing with some fabulous results. Baby cormorants stealing the show, proving ugly can be nice.

Till next month.

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Loch Visions wins another national business award

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Female portrait

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