We are always happy to receive photographs from our members, visitors and supporters. The one (or two) that I like best of those recently received by me will be featured on this page. That I choose a picture does not imply or deny technical or artistic merit. It's just one I particularly liked at the time I made my choice. All images are appreciated and many that don't make this page do appear elsewhere on the site.
Please respect the photographers' intellectual property rights when using this page.
During a recent visit to the Trust, Roger Byrne spotted Lanner Falcon Charlie Brown having a pre-flight rouse, and shared it with us using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II at 400mm, 1/2000s at f/6.3 and ISO 500.
During their development at the Bath nesting site, Hamish Smith spotted male and female young Peregrine Falcons beak to beak, negotiating ownership of the ledge. It was taken with a Canon EOS 7D at 400mm, 1/800s at f/7.1 and ISO 400.
If you would like to see one of your photographs featured here, simply select a digital photograph that you have taken recently at the Trust, at a demonstration or other event involving Trust staff and birds, or of a Bird of Prey in the wild, and send it to me, webmaster@hawkconservancy.org, as an email attachment (.jpg preferred). The image width should be at least 1000 pixels and the total size of the email including the single image must not exceed 10MB. You can alternatively send your images to the same email address, without size limitation, using the free file transfer service www.wetransfer.com (or similar). If you can, please leave the EXIF data intact. I reserve the right to crop the image for emphasis or other reasons.
This is open to amateur and professional photographers of all ages (although I should prefer to see parental permission if the photographer is under 16), and it makes no difference if the camera used cost ten thousand pounds or came free with a packet of breakfast cereal. You may, if you wish, tell me a little about the photograph, although I can't guarantee to use this information.
No prize or payment of any kind is offered. The photographer will be credited and we can provide a link to the photographer's web site if requested and if appropriate. You must be the sole author and owner of the copyright for any images submitted for consideration and, by submitting your images, you give the Hawk Conservancy Trust a non-exclusive licence to reproduce the images on its web sites and in other media, without payment, for promotion and publicity purposes. All photographs received by our webmaster are placed in the Trust's photograph library and may be used for promotional or publicity purposes on our web sites or in print (posters, flyers, post cards etc). Requests from others for permission to use these images will always be referred to the photographer at the photographer's last known email address.
... and don't forget to check this page regularly to see
if your photograph has made it!
Selected featured images showing birds of prey are archived (unless you ask us not to) and can be viewed here. It is also available as an Atom feed
