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Hello and welcome to my website.
This is a photo of me taken in Crwbin, South Wales, by my step daughter and very talented photographer
Irene Smith. So if you see me out and about please say hello, it would be great to put some faces to the
names I see on the internet!
My name is David Martin and I have been a very keen birdwatcher for as long as I can remember, my
parents gave me my very first bird book in 1974 for my 11th birthday, I still have this book, amongst
others today!
I have only very recently started to take photographs of the birds I see. In 2008 whilst on a very quiet
fishing trip in France I took some photos of the local birds just to keep myself from going mad. From
that moment on I was completely hooked, pardon the pun, and now I am out with my camera as often
as work and my dear wife will allow!
Looking back on those first photos (which I thought were brilliant at the time) I can now see through
experience and many mistakes, the beauty of digital is you can delete the mistakes and try again, how
much my images have improved.
Most of my knowledge has come from reading books on bird photography and from the tips and
tutorials from other bird photographers websites.
I use Canon equipment for no other reason than I have always had Canon cameras.
This is what I am using at present:
- EOS 1D Mk IV.
- EF 500mm F4.
- EF 300mm F2.8.
- Gitzo tripod.
- Wimberley Gimbal Head MK II.
- 1.4 and 2x converters.
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