LANDSCAPE AND WILDLIFE GALLERIES
![C01D6030 Sunrise over wet area Ober Heath New Forest Copyright Mike Read Sunrise over wet area on Ober Heath, near Brockenhurst, New Forest National Park, Hampshire, England, UK, October 2017](https://www.mikeread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/C01D6030-Sunrise-over-wet-area-Ober-Heath-New-Forest-Copyright-Mike-Read.jpg)
![C07D0278 Mountains near Col de Rousset Vercors Copyright Mike Read Mountains in mist at sunrise near the Col de Rousset Parc Naturel Regional du Vercors France](https://www.mikeread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/C07D0278-Mountains-near-Col-de-Rousset-Vercors-Copyright-Mike-Read.jpg)
![C10D0561 Teton Mountains from the Pilgrim Creek Road Copyright Mike Read Flowers beside small pond on the Pilgrim Creek Road Grand Teton National Park Wyoming USA](https://www.mikeread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/C10D0561-Teton-Mountains-from-the-Pilgrim-Creek-Road-Copyright-Mike-Read.jpg)
Via the various links below you can access many different countries or general locations I have visited as well as the various groups of wildlife I have managed to capture on transparencies or, over recent years, digitally.
My love of wildlife and of the places they inhabit has been a driving force in what I photograph and also how I portray it. My wildlife photos often remind me not only of the actual species but also the occasion and place I took the picture. There is a whole experience for me in nearly all of what appears in my galleries and I hope some of the images convey the same feeling to you as you see them.
The top left image here for instance shows what I can only describe as one of my local patches, the wonderful New Forest National Park. This is an area I have walked in for over 50 years, not every day of course, but as the weather and my inclination took me. TR is one of the first photographs I took during one of my 5 visits to the Falkland Islands. After a delayed flight out, I slept soundly in Sealion Lodge. With my body clock still on UK time, I woke early and peered out of the window to see this fabulous sunrise developing. Within 10 minutes I had taken this image. Not a bad start!
Middle left is an early winter photo in the Vercors (a region often described as a secret corner of France). Bottom left are peaks in Grand Teton National Park in the USA, bottom right is Red Campion beside a lichen covered rock in Scotland and middle right is White-tailed Eagle taking a fish from a sea loch on the Isle of Mull.
The above links take you to individual galleries where you can see a further selection of my work.
![02AD2472 Gentoo penguin Copyright Mike Read Gentoo penguin Pygoscelis papua nesting colony at sunrise Sea Lion Island Falkland Islands](https://www.mikeread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/02AD2472-Gentoo-penguin-Copyright-Mike-Read.jpg)
![03AD3696 White-tailed eagle Copyright Mike Read White-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla, adult taking off with a fish in its talons, Mull, Scotland May 2018](https://www.mikeread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/03AD3696-White-tailed-eagle-Copyright-Mike-Read.jpg)
![01BD4658 Red campion Copyright Mike Read Red campion Silene dioica growing amongst grasses and rocks at Troup Head RSPB Nature Reserve, near Macduff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, May 2018](https://www.mikeread.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/01BD4658-Red-campion-Copyright-Mike-Read.jpg)