Harry Martin Photography

A puffin stands watch over the most isolated part of the British isles; St Kilda. Photographing puffins in the most remote part of the main island Hirta at dawn was no easy task, I'm over the moon with this! @StKildaNTS @GotoStKilda @N_T_S

Creativity can come from anywhere, time and familiarity with a subject however are a great starting point. Tick off the obvious shots so you don’t feel under pressure or stressed if an idea doesn’t pan out. I’m undecided on this result. What are your thoughts, be honest!

How is it nearly half-way through August already?! Might as well start putting up the Christmas decorations now. I've still to edit the thousands of puffin images from Shetland a few weeks ago but here's one I've just exported showcasing their comical behaviour.

A lovely feature of some guiding I did for OurLifeonSkye - youtube.com/watch?v=NQzdWu…

The only image I've edited from a week in Shetland - a lucky capture as I hadn't actually realised I got my customer and the puffin all in frame together. #WexMondays #sharemondays24 #fsprintmondays #appicoftheweek

It's been a busy few weeks with a whole variety of work from commercial shoots and events, to lots of otter guiding. Here's one fresh from first light today and a beautiful close encounter. #WexMondays #fsprintmonday #sharemondays2024

@SwannBob I've seen the same trend in NW Skye, 10 years ago there were good colonies of Fulmar in Waternish & Trotternish, now nothing.

No Fulmars! We have been monitoring Canna annually since 1969. This is the first time we have had a zero count for Fulmar. Their numbers peaked at 671 occupied sites in 1992.

I still remember my first glimpse of an African wild dog through thick bush in Zimbabwe. It was a fleeting view and since I've sought out opportunities to capture these charismatic hounds. I'm back in Botswana later this year and keeping my fingers crossed!

Just a couple of weeks until I'm filling up my already saturated hard drives with a few more thousand images of Shetland's seabirds. Why do I still so many pictures of them you might wonder? I gain immense enjoyment from simply going through the motions of wildlife photography.

Two litters of wildcat kittens have been born in the Cairngorms 🎉 Following the release of 19 wildcats last summer, two females have successfully given birth in the wild, marking a huge milestone in our efforts to restore wildcats in Scotland ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/kittensborninw…

Some awesome footage of a golden eagle!

The days are SO long at this time of year. Days blend seamlessly together. My body clock is in purgatory. But I can be very productive. Otter spotting at 4am, a 2 hour sleep, phone calls and meetings, dog walk, and back out in the evening for a 2 hour sunset shoot.

More images from my recent trip guiding a 9-day photo holiday in Ireland. harrymartinphotography.co.uk/blog/capturing…

Irish Hare / First time I've managed a photo of these while in Ireland. Staying overnight on @gbisland gave me lots of time to find unusual vantage points. I love the colour palette of this scene.

@WryCritic @matthewcobb This is very very cool, is it publicly available to see? Got the Berlin fossil tattoed on me

@WryCritic Me: “I don’t get it, why is my back so sore today?? 😖” My sleep posture:

Topics for an upcoming newsletter are between "Never delete RAW files", "Default Settings", and "why the rule of thirds is effective". You probably get a lot of emails and spam which is why I try really hard to make it worthwhile reading and not just spam. harrymartinphotography.co.uk/newsletter

@PeteWalkden1973 Yeah that sounds about right, they can sleep for so long during the warm sunny spells too and only briefly feed making it trickier to pinpoint

@HarryMartin__ I think the warm weather and increase in wild camping around the shores of the lochs encourage the otters to become a bit more nocturnal.

Otters - a family group larking around in the water near the shore of a loch, in Scotland. Fabulous to watch. 😍 #springwatch #Mull #Scotland #otter #workshop #wildlife #nature #video

Counting down the next 6 weeks till I'm back in Shetland guiding. Glad to hear there's been good sightings of Skua back on these cliffs after a heavy hit due to bird flu. Fingers crossed for a good recovery of the population.