Martin Grace Photography

Award-winning photography of natural history, landscape, antiquity and travel throughout the world. All images © Martin Grace
CATEGORY WINNER IN BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

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Headless Penguin Highly Commended!

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December 08, 2022

The results of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards were announced this morning, and I'm delighted that my headless King Penguin image Keep Calm and Keep Your Head has been Highly Commended: one of… ›

Headless Penguin Highly Commended!

Headless penguin makes the final cut!

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October 20, 2022

The images short-listed for the final judging stage of the 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards were announced on October 20 2022, and I'm delighted that my headless King Penguin image is included.… ›

Headless penguin makes the final cut!

Happy New Year 2022, Sparrowhawk!

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January 01, 2022

It is the morning of January 1 2022 and my winter 2021/2022 Sparrowhawk was sitting in the Lilac tree when I got up. This bird is a male in adult plumage, and I am pretty sure is the same one that… ›

Happy New Year 2022, Sparrowhawk!

18,000 images and still going strong!

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March 30, 2021

Today my website (www.martingracephotography.com) has reached the 18,000 image milestone, courtesy of this juvenile male Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nivalis) in flight in my garden. I am grateful… ›

18,000 images and still going strong!

On Radio 3!

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December 06, 2020

A dawn chorus recording of mine from New Zealand was featured on Radio 3 this morning, in their Sounds Of The Earth collage shortly after 08:00 during Sunday Breakfast. 18 minutes and 50 seconds of… ›

On Radio 3!

Sparrowhawk City!

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December 03, 2020

Looks like being a good winter for Sparrowhawks in the garden: two different birds in the last few days, one favouring the chase-it-and-grab hunting technique, and the other using the I'm-not-too… ›

Sparrowhawk City!

Finalist in Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020

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September 10, 2020

I entered the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards for the first time this year and out of 7,000 entries I am delighted that one of my images has made it through to the final round of judging: a young… ›

Finalist in Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2020

New Zealand galleries completed

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May 05, 2020

When I returned in mid-November from 6 weeks photographing in New Zealand I set myself the target of completing the NZ galleries on my website before the next trip abroad (to Slovenia shooting bears,… ›

New Zealand galleries completed

New Zealand!

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December 10, 2019

Phew! 3 weeks back from 6 weeks in New Zealand, and the jet lag has just about worn off, though not the exhaustion. The Land of the Long Thin Cloud did not live up to its billing: the cloud was very… ›

New Zealand!

Autumn tomorrow!

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September 19, 2019

We are told that meteorological autumn starts on September 1, but for me the traditional September 21 still seems the best marker for the start of the fall of the year. With traditional autumn… ›

Autumn tomorrow!

Pine Marten

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September 18, 2019

After more than twenty years visiting the Scottish Highlands, I thought they had given up all they were going to offer. Then up popped these handsome creatures, lured in by peanuts. They are said to… ›

Pine Marten

Category Winner in BPOTY 2019!

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August 16, 2019

After being awarded the Bronze Award in the Creative Imagery category in Bird Photographer of the Year 2018, I am absolutely delighted to have won the new Inspirational Encounters Award in Bird… ›

Category Winner in BPOTY 2019!

Can't get much closer than this!

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June 26, 2019

A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker (identified by the red crown) on my peanut feeder this afternoon. Taken with my new Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens plus Canon Extender EF 1.4x III through… ›

Can't get much closer than this!

Ring Ouzel afternoon

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May 22, 2019

Ring Ouzel afternoon today in Glen Tanar. I don't usually go in for pay-and-display photography, but this is probably the only way for the time-limited to photograph this iconic summer visitor to the… ›

Ring Ouzel afternoon

BPOTY 2019 - shortlisted again!

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January 31, 2019

Delighted to have four images shortlisted again this year in the prestigious Bird Photographer of the Year 2019 competition. With over 13,500 entries from 63 countries, it's becoming massive, and… ›

BPOTY 2019 - shortlisted again!

Weddell Emperors

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December 27, 2018

After Patagonia the next port of call was the Weddell Sea. Well, not actually a port as such, as there are no ports in the Antarctic Peninsula. Awful weather across the Drake Passage continued in the… ›

Weddell Emperors

Patagonian Pumas

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December 21, 2018

Recently back from Patagonia and Antarctica. Here are images of a female Patagonian Puma (Puma concolor patagonica) known as Hermanita (Little Sister) taken in the Torres del Paine (Chile). I was… ›

Patagonian Pumas

BirdPOTY Bronze Award

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August 17, 2018

Very pleased to have been awarded the Bronze Award in the Creative Imagery category of BirdPOTY 2018. This is an allegorical image illustrating habitat loss. ›

BirdPOTY Bronze Award

Madagascar Catch-Up

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February 04, 2018

In anticipation of another trip to Madagascar, I've recently completed a small (but perfectly formed) gallery of images from my previous trip: wildlife, botany, landscape and tourism. ›

Madagascar Catch-Up

Short-listed again in Bird Photographer of the Year

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January 23, 2018

Nearly 9600 images were entered into Bird Photographer of the Year competition 2018. Really pleased to have 4 images shortlisted and 9 commended! See them at: http://www.martingracephotography.com/-… ›

Short-listed again in Bird Photographer of the Year

Pantanal Galleries Completed!

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December 24, 2017

When I returned from the Pantanal late in August I set myself Christmas as the target for finishing editing and uploading the images to my web site. Some 1200 images later, I finished this afternoon.… ›

Pantanal Galleries Completed!

The Pantanal 30 starts today

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October 01, 2017

The Pantanal 30 starts today: an image a day for 30 days of the stunning wildlife of the Pantanal - Brazil's huge wetland. Today is the Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco), which is the bird with the… ›

The Pantanal 30 starts today

Stunning Pantanal Wildlife

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September 05, 2017

I'm recently back from three weeks in Brazil's Pantanal. After a nightmare journey with a delayed flight, a missed connection, a missed onward flight (by 24 hours!), a phenomenally expensive… ›

Stunning Pantanal Wildlife

10,000th Image Uploaded to Website!

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April 19, 2017

I chose this image of a Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus) taken on my recent trip to the Scottish Highlands to be the ten thousandth image to be uploaded to my website. Why? Well, Mountain Hares are such… ›

10,000th Image Uploaded to Website!

Highland Spring

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April 09, 2017

A flying visit to the Scottish Highlands, with lots to see of what some people might describe as game. I shoot them, but not in that way... Here are two male Black Grouse (Lyrurus (Tetrao) tetrix)… ›

Highland Spring

Old Nottinghamshire Stamping Ground

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April 05, 2017

A great pleasure to revisit one of my old stamping grounds in Nottinghamshire - the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust reserve of Duke's Wood. The carpets of Wood Anemones are still unequalled! The… ›

Old Nottinghamshire Stamping Ground

Scottish Shortlisting

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March 30, 2017

Now the embargo's lifted (today) I can show three images that were shortlisted in the Scottish Nature Photography Awards 2016, two in the Natural Abstract Category and one in the Scottish Botanical… ›

Scottish Shortlisting

Prague (in) spring - a Kafkaesque experience

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March 22, 2017

Just returned from a few days and nights photographing in Prague. As appropriate for the birthplace of Franz Kafka this was a truly Kakfaesque experience, or at least the return journey was, courtesy… ›

Prague (in) spring - a Kafkaesque experience

Photogenic Venice

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February 13, 2017

Recently back from Venice: photogenic even in winter, and no huge crowds of tourists to get in the way! Sunrise images are easy to get without losing too much sleep, and sunset doesn't clash with… ›

Photogenic Venice

Shortlisted in Bird Photographer of the Year 2017!

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January 21, 2017

Somehow managed to scrape these two images into the short-list for Bird Photographer of the Year 2017. The short-list was announced last night and is available to view on the BPOTY website: http:/… ›

Shortlisted in Bird Photographer of the Year 2017!

A little bit of fame but definitely no fortune...

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January 10, 2017

February's PhotoPlus magazine, published today, features a two-page Photo Story about me together with a quote on the cover. 10 minutes of fame! (But no fortune, as they don't pay for this submission… ›

A little bit of fame but definitely no fortune...

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