Peter Smart Wildlife Photography

I have established a new home to feature my continuing interest in aviation which you're invited to follow. While I may post some of my aviation images here, particularly when testing new cameras and lenses, the majority will be featured on Peter Smart Aviation Photography. #Aviation

I recently enjoyed a lovely weekend in Norfolk attending the popular Introduction to Wildlife Film-making course presented by the fantastic guys from wildeye.co.uk along with a lovely bunch of budding wildlife film-makers. One of the practical sessions was held at the lovely Pensthorpe Natural Park - looking rather less lovely in the rain - giving the opportunity to put the lessons into practice. As an exercise I subsequently edited a few of the clips to produce my first ever

I'm confident all this practice photographing aircraft will be useful once I have a spare day with fairly kind weather and reasonably cooperative wildlife ... but I couldn't resist the opportunity to view the first flight of the year of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Lancaster at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Different challenges are presented by propeller aircraft with the need to keep the shutter speed slow (to avoid the disconcerting sight of aircraft flying with