Peter Smart Wildlife Photography

This is the first chance I have had to contact you since I arrived home from our fantastic trip to the Masa Marai. Many thanks for your recent e-mail messages since we returned from our trip to Kenya. It is still sinking in that I have now actually been to Africa! Thanks again for all the help and guidance you provided before and during the trip. In particular I am very grateful for the alerts you gave us about photographic opportunities just before they happened such as when the Serval was about to jump and framing the baby giraffe by the long neck of the adult. Obviously seeing opportunities such as these only comes with experience and I much appreciate you sharing your sightings with us. Thanks Again and All the Best for now

Hi Peter, Thank you for a great day yesterday, I not only learnt much more about my camera and took a few good shots, both Penny and myself enjoyed the whole experience thanks to you, Terry and the wonderful cats. We told my daughter about the Lynx and she was very envious. I will be looking at other courses. Thank you again. Best wishes

Hi Peter, We had an absolutely amazing time in the Galapagos Islands and many, many thanks for all you did to make it so enjoyable. We loved the place, the photography and the company, so altogether an unforgettable trip. We have looked through most of our images now and are really pleased. We have got some really good ones like Sealions with fish and pulling Iguana's tail, all sorts of birds in flight, just hatched Nazca Booby - wonderful - and some really good tortoises, etc, etc. Excellent, and many we can use for competitions. Thank you once again for everything

This is just to say thank you for a fabulous trip! We had a great time in India and would love to go back!

I had expected to love the wildlife obviously, and I did, but I hadn't anticipated enjoying the people, the traffic, the colours, the trains and so on as much as I did! I'm glad that we did the whole trip, not just because we saw the lions but also because we saw so much more of rural India than we otherwise would. I like some of the people photos every bit as much as the wildlife ones! Thanks again for your hard work in India!

I have only one general comment about the trip [Kenya:North & South and Great Migration extension], brilliant! I really enjoyed the trip and it managed to exceed both my expectations and my hopes. The latter being a very tall order. The effort that you personally put in both before and during the trip really paid off. I know some may say that it was your job to do that but I think that you often went further than you needed to. So thank you, it was really appreciated.

Just a quick email to say thank you for a great day at Bedford yesterday. Peter was a very helpful guide and his advice was given in such a way that it made sense to even the least technical of photographers. I was a little apprehensive when I first arrived, thinking I would be out of my depth and embarrassed by people much more experienced than me. How wrong could I have been. It was a very relaxed and friendly day with like minded people. The falconer was very friendly and nothing was too much trouble for him, his guidance as to how the birds would behave was very useful. I will certainly be looking at booking another day with you.

Hi Peter, I simply want to say what a fabulous day I had with you on Big Cats Photography One-to-One in November. To say that I’d been looking forward to the day would be an understatement of epic proportions and often it seems that such an eagerly awaited event can go a tad slack in reality. Not so our day … in fact I can’t think of any aspect that could have been improved upon!!! The help you gave me in particular was excellent. I took in the region of 400 different photos, only half of which I have looked at so far, and I’m absolutely thrilled with the results!! Once again, many thanks for opportunity offered to us on Monday and perhaps you will pass on my thanks to everyone at the venue and especially for the lovely food provided for us at lunch time.

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Dear Peter, Many thanks for a brilliant trip to the Galapagos Islands. I enjoyed every moment of it! I've looked at my shots and I am pleased with them. Thanks also for the birthday cards and arranging the cake. I really had a birthday to remember. Looking forward to seeing you in January for Rwanda. All the best

Good Morning Peter, Thank you very much for the course held the the cat survival trust on Sunday. I really enjoyed the day and improved my knowledge on settings, gained more confidence in what I have been doing, but most of all a day dedicated to taking pictures of some fantastic animals was brilliant. It seems I took over 800 pictures but I've managed to whittle them down to 52. Thanks again, and I hope to attend another course both with going digital and yourself in the future.

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Just to say how very much I enjoyed the Wildlife Course on Saturday. Peter was an excellent tutor - paced everything perfectly for the experienced and less experienced of us - all questions were answered thoroughly in 'user-friendly language'. It was a wonderful experience!

I just wanted to say thanks to you and the guides for a great safari to Tanzania: A Photographer’s Paradise. The organisation was superb. I can't think of any way that it could be improved. It exceeded all my expectations, although I did go with an open mind. I do realise that we were lucky in what we saw in the way of wildlife though. I downloaded my photos yesterday and found I had taken 8800 photographs ... on one day I took 1500! Thanks again

Highly recommend the Big Cats course. Peter Smart has a wealth of knowledge and you learn all about the fantastic work the cat survival trust do. I was on the course yesterday. Took almost 500 pictures and really pleased with my results. You will be inches from teeth and claws

I am sure you know, but I did have the time of my life, everything was better than I could have ever expected. I will tell all that will listen what a great photographic safari you organize.

Peter, I just wanted to drop you a message to thank you for the day on Thursday. Both Mike and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and it was great to meet firstly the cats but also the great characters that are involved behind the scenes. Terry is a wonderful chap who clearly cares passionately about what he does and we need more people like him in the world. The photography aspect was second to none and I’d be more than happy to recommend your services to anyone. I just need to trim down the 1,000 photos I took to find the good ones! Thanks once again. Regards,

At long last I'm getting round to doing some emails - instead of dreaming over my shots of Rwanda and Kenya and wishing I was still there! Thank you so much for organizing the trip and for the help you gave me. I loved every minute of the holiday. It was a good group and there was so much to see, do and photograph. Everyone I see gets an earful of how wonderful Rwanda, the gorillas, Kenya and the game drives were. People seem to be disappearing when they see me coming now - I can't think why! Once again, thanks for everything and I'll see you in Sri Lanka, if not before