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Name Les Thomas Camera Nikon D800 ■ Les got the photography bug in his 20s, after visiting the Norfolk Broads with his first FED film camera. Since moving to Lancashire from Cornwall he’s had more time for his photography and his family (whose latest member, granddaughter Abigail, was born while Les was photographing puffins with N-Photo!). He loves to capture the birds that flock to his back garden and wrote to us to ask for tutelage taking shots of something more challenging. So we invited him along to the Farne Islands with wildlife pro Chris Gomersall to meet the locals…
Name Chris Gomersall Camera Nikon D4s ■ Chris is one of the UK’s best-known wildlife photographers, with a 30-year track record working as everything from a nature reserve warden to the in-house photographer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). He’s now a freelance pro photographing wildlife on commissions from the WWF, BBC Wildlife and others. He’s been using Nikon gear since the beginning and now runs Nikon’s wildlife training schools as well as his own workshops all over the world, but he’s still got a soft spot for Britain’s wild island birds. www.chrisgomersall.co.uk
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