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know, the more you know you don't know! With understanding comes appreciation - an appreciation for the complexity, diversity and singular beauty of all living things. What wildlife photography offers over spotting and watching is that you are forced to interact more intensely with your subject, learning it's nuances, habits and capabilities. It truly enriches the experience. Realising that a blackbird often defecates before flying away is not particularly useful or interesting information to a spotter, but to a photographer that knowledge can be the difference between capturing a blackbird in flight, or not. Not only does a wildlife photographer appreciate the natural world for its more obvious and inherent splendours, but every living thing becomes fascinating and a potential subject for scrutiny and interest.

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I slaver in delight at what lies ahead for me. Whether I'm jauntily striding through a local wood, struggling through a pugnacious bog, or sat perishing in a lonesome hide for countless hours; I will always have my camera by my side to remind me what a breathtaking world we live in. I can bathe in the knowledge that my enthusiasm will never falter - how can it when I have millions of potential subjects to shoot, from infinite angles, in countless locations, using myriad techniques. No, if I ever become tired of photography, I shall be tired of life. But for now I need to give some attention to a very special exotic bird; my wonderfully understanding, supportive and patient Malay wife - the other love of my life.

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