Photography by Chris Packham

Has anyone seen any of his recent work thats currently being exhibited? It's fantastic and I can only admire his skill and patience.

He said in an interview that he can sit for 7 hours or so waiting for the right shot, I thought how lucky you are, not only could I not physically sit for that long without moving and/orscreaming with pain, but I don't think I'd feel safe either.

Do women feel less able than men to spend this much time on a hobby, let alone the money for the equipment? Even in a relatively well populated area I wouldn't feel safe, even if it was from someone who'd never left the playground making some stupid comment about the length of my lens, let alone sitting in a hide in a less populated place, I'd be afraid of being robbed at the very least and would certainly fear for my personal safety.

I also wouldn't feel able to spend that much time and money on something just for me, when I was younger, it would be time away from home and what would I be facing when I got back, not having much money and feeling like what spare cash I did have should be spent on home and family.

Is this just me, my PTSD and guilt trips, or do thers feel the same? 

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  • Oh I didn't know he had an new exhibition, I do love his photography work. We went to a talk he gave once, very enlightening. I also had a calendar of his I used and reused for 3 years. This is quite exciting news, it's it online or real life?

    But on your other points, yeah I would be nervous by myself, I used to love going and sitting in hides birdwatching, but I was always with my husband, I probably wouldn't stay long in a hide otherwise, unless it was somewhere like slimbridge, busier so less relaxing but I'd feel a bit safer? We used to take binoculars and a entry level DSLR with a starter telephoto lens to take turns of. It's hard to say as I've always done things with him, I've not had to do things in my own. (I'm very nervous of going for walk myself as there is a bad person on the village, and I wouldn't like to bump into him on my own. I did go once last year but I did worry about being killed the whole way round which kind of takes the enjoyment of if it. Not catastrophising is tricky.)

    We keep talking about getting into photography again and sharing a camera, but it's pretty costly. 

  • We went to a talk he gave once, very enlightening

    I did too when he was promoting his book Fingers etc'.

  • Oh I really enjoyed that book, that must have been a great talk to go to! 

    I did some looking up, I think we saw him in 2013, he was touring and chatting about his photography, I can distinctly remember this shot of a cheetah on a rock and him discussing the story behind getting it. 

    Like The Catwoman said, a part of me wishes I could do things like that too, wait for your perfect shot, though another part is happy to gaze with wonder and joy at the images others take, in the warm inside with a cup of tea! 

    I have a lot of books from wildlife series, I love to look through them and they inspire me to draw and paint. The detail you get nowadays is breathtaking.

    Me and my husband used to enjoy visiting nature reserves and taking shots, then we'd short list them down to the best 10, cropping them to get the ideal image. With the kids being bigger, would be nice to do that again!

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  • Oh I really enjoyed that book, that must have been a great talk to go to! 

    I did some looking up, I think we saw him in 2013, he was touring and chatting about his photography, I can distinctly remember this shot of a cheetah on a rock and him discussing the story behind getting it. 

    Like The Catwoman said, a part of me wishes I could do things like that too, wait for your perfect shot, though another part is happy to gaze with wonder and joy at the images others take, in the warm inside with a cup of tea! 

    I have a lot of books from wildlife series, I love to look through them and they inspire me to draw and paint. The detail you get nowadays is breathtaking.

    Me and my husband used to enjoy visiting nature reserves and taking shots, then we'd short list them down to the best 10, cropping them to get the ideal image. With the kids being bigger, would be nice to do that again!

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