Northern Gannet

 

I've been involved with photography for longer than I'd perhaps like to remember! I had my first camera as a teenager and used it as much as I could to photograph aircraft on my regular visits to Birmingham airport.                                                                                                              

I was, I'm afraid to admit, a childhood spotter! And even today still retain that lifelong love and interest in aircraft.

My interest in wildlife developed from an early age, but was really re-kindled in the early eighties when i lived in Germany as I enthusiastically tried to photograph wild boar in a local wood, at the same time as seeing a slide show from fellow wildlife photographer Tony Wharton.  

The rest, as they say, is history.

Having spent a great deal of my working life in aviation, firstly as an air traffic controller and then as an airport manager, I am now a UK based professional wildlife photographer, leading my own series of Photo-tours designed and organised specifically for the wildlife photographer and nature lover.

I have over the years exhibited widely in National and International photographic salons and received many major awards, including FIAP, PSA, RPS & BPE Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals.

Commercially my images have recently been used by the RSPB,The Times, Daily Mail, FITB & Ordnance Survey.

 

 

Through photo-tours I have been involved with the Falkland Islands for many years and was fortunate enough to have been invited by the Falkland Islands Government representative to stage an exhibition of my images from the Islands at Falkland House in London in 2005.

I hold the distinctions of Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) and Photographer of Excellence of the FIAP(EFIAP). and currently serve as the Deputy Chair of the prestigous RPS A&F Nature distinctions panel as well as being a past Chairman of the RPS Nature Group. 

I hope you enjoy your visit to the site, if you do Please take a minute to Sign the Guest book, it would be greatly appreciated and i'd love to hear from you .

There will be regular additions to the galleries and the site will always contain the latest and most up to date information on all of the photo-tours and workshops, so I do hope that you'll put the site into your favourites and return to visit the site regularly.

To keep up to date with my latest work do check out the 'Latest Images' and 'Photo of the Month' galleries.

A lot of my work doesn't fit within the page format of the current sites galleries, so the 'Latest Images' section will always contain the most up to date work which isn't necessarily covered anywhere on the sites other pages - I guess a sort of day to day imaging 'Blog'. 

To view the images select the galleries from the list on the left hand side of the home page.

In the galleries where the images are displayed as bordered thumbnails, click on the individual image to enlarge.

The images on this web-site are all of a low resolution and minimal file size. Nevertheless, they are all protected by worldwide copyright laws and must not be downloaded or reproduced in any form without the written permission of the owner, David Osborn FRPS EFIAP BPE5.

 

Latest updates:-

07th December 2011 - New Fungi gallery         29th January 2012 - RIAT  updates

10th April 2012 - Aircraft Heritage galleries      17th May 2012 - Latest Images   

 

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