A Potential Client Base of Everyone

My fist real post is inspired by something the course video tutor Christina Fox told us.

Christina is an ex BBC camerawoman (although she repeatedly called herself a cameraman!) who now works freelance training camerapeople. She is an excellent tutor and teaches many levels from amateurs to BBC camerapeople in training. This is her website:

http://www.urbanfox.tv/

Christina pointed out that in the 21st century, pretty much everyone everywhere has access to the internet. As modern photographs are digital this means a photographer can sell their images to anyone anywhere in the world. The mind boggles.

For a small fee anyone can buy their own domain name and Christina could not recommend strongly enough to us that we did this. Even if you are not planning immediately on making a website, owning your own domain name stops anyone else snapping it up. This is my new domain name:

http://www.moonlightimaging.co.uk/

Secondly, blogs are even easier. It took me around 10 minutes to set up this blog and it could not have been simpler. Blogger.com comes with many different templates and no knowledge of HTML is needed to publish with them.

Now anyone anywhere in the world can read my ramblings.

Everything has an Explanation

As an avid fan of both Richard Dawkins and House MD I know that both humans and animals do everything for a reason.

Why then am I starting up a blog?

Well firstly because I am not brilliant at remembering where and when I photographed what. This blog should act as a diary for myself allowing me to remember these details in the future.

There is however a less self centered reason for me starting this blog.

There are plenty of wildlife photography columns gracing the pages of the internet. Andy Rouse frequently updates his blog with new pictures from the wilds of Svalbard; Naill Benvie has a joint blog with two other photographers, and you can even follow Heather Angel on Twitter.

All of these are interesting, educational, and certainly worth a look and I wouldn't even class myself anywhere near the same league as these hotshots. What could I possibly hope to add to the mix?

Well whereas these photographers have fully cemented their positions in the wildlife photography hall of fame, I am just starting out on the road to (hopeful!) success.

I have been a passionate amateur photographer for a good few years now and have just started on Nottingham University's MSc in Biological Photography and Imaging. I am now in a very privileged position surrounded by similarly passionate budding wildlife photographers and a superb teaching staff who thoroughly enjoy sharing their large knowledge base.

Hopefully during the rapid learning curve I will learn things not immediately obvious to self taught photographers and be able to pass these on.

Here goes!