New Square Greeting Cards


New greeting cards just sent off for printing including 10 new designs! Will be available to buy from next week. Watch this space!
All greeting cards will be square and 148mm in size.

New designs include (from top left to bottom right):

Yacht at Sunrise
European Bee-eaters
Poppies
Great Malvern Priory in snow
Mute Swan with cygnets
Poppies and Cornflowers
Puffin
Robin in snow
Spoonbill
Sunflower
Tawny Owl
Whooper Swan in snow

Please contact me if you are interested.

New Greeting Cards

Wildlife and Landscape Greeting Cards


I’ve dabbled with handmade greeting cards over the past few years for friends and family but it was about time I started to produce these on a more commercial basis.  Well it’s now happened and the first 10 greeting cards are available to buy directly from myself.  The designs are listed below:

Portraits from left to right:
IBP001 Red Fox
IBP002 Kingfisher
IBP003 Robin
IBP004 Red Kite
IBP005 Red Squirrel
IBP006 Bornean Orangutan

Landscapes from left to right
IBP007 St Michael’s Mount
IBP008 Pink-footed Geese
IBP009 Borneo Sunset
IBP010 Great Malvern Priory

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Details:
Cost: £2.00 plus p&p
The front image is sized A5 (half of an A4)
Printed on thick 300gsm card with a soft silk finish and luxury white envelope.
All cards are left blank inside for your own message.
They are really excellent quality and I’m very proud to add them to my product collection. If you would like to order any of these designs either contact me directly or go to my website in the gallery section under Greeting Cards.

Fox Greeting Card

Best of 2015


I hope everyone has had a wonderful time over the Christmas period.  Personally, I think I’m still full from the Christmas dinner!

Well, it’s that time of year (again!) where we all start thinking about New Years’ resolutions and how we would like to move forward into 2016…
Before I do that I would like to show you 9 images that I have photographed over 2015 that have special memories for me.
May I taken this opportunity to wish everybody a very healthy and fun filled 2016 with lots of great photographic opportunities and wildlife encounters…

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Images from left to right, top to bottom:

Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) in display flight
Lesser Celendine (Ranunculus ficaria) flower
Drake Garganey (Anas querquedula) against sunrise
Pair of Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) courtship display
Full Moon
Mountain Ringlet butterfly (Erebia epiphron)
Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)
Close up image of Green-barred Swallowtail (Papilio palinurus) butterfly wing
A very cheeky European Pine Marten (Martes martes)

!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE !!!

 

Adobe Lightroom Workshop November 20th 2015 £99


The last Adobe Lightroom workshop was a huge success. Please find below the details of the next one!
ADOBE LIGHTROOM WORKSHOP 20th November 2015 £99
A great opportunity for you to learn new Adobe Lightroom skills and techniques.
Its on Friday 20th November based at The Flash Centre, Mount Street Business Centre, Birmingham.
This workshop will cover all of the necessary skills to improve your images and workflow, including importing, processing, keywording and exporting your images.
For more details of the course content please see here: https://ianbutlerphotography.wordpress.com/adobe-lightroom/
Excellent value at £99 per person for up to 8 people
To book your place please contact Ian on ian@ianbutlerphotography.co.uk or mobile 07709 492484

Northern Gannet Morus bassanus


Last weekend was supposed to be a weekend of fast action and quick reflexes with a boat trip booked to photograph the diving gannets from the sea at Bempton Cliffs. Unfortunately, the 30mph westerly winds put a quick stop to that and the boat trip was cancelled for safety reasons. Up to the top of the cliffs it was then!

With Bempton Cliffs being an extremely popular location with photographers, I wanted to take some more unusual images and this is one I really liked of two Gannets in a courtship display against the rising sun.

Northern Gannet, Morus bassanus
Canon 1Dx with Canon 500mm f/4 L IS with Canon 1.4x converter.
1/4000s at f/8 at ISO200

Please click below for larger image.

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