Wildlife and Wild Places - fresh, contemporary photography
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WELCOME:
Duncan Shaw is a 46 year old stock photographer based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, close to the Cairngorm mountains, who specialises in wildlife, nature, landscape and environmental photography.
After growing up on Dartmoor, in north Wiltshire, and in the Yorkshire Dales, he studied geography and zoology at Aberdeen University, before working offshore for twenty years in the North Sea oil industry.
As well as having a passion for wildlife from an early age, Duncan comes from a mountaineering background.
In his twenties he spent several summers in the Alps, solo-climbing Mont Blanc and other high peaks, as well as roughing it in Arctic Norway, the Pyrenees and the USA, and has climbed, skiid, camped, and walked throughout the Scottish Highlands all his adult life.
This background gives him an easy familiarity with remote and wild places, and a profound contentment in their wildlife, weather and landscapes.
Hopefully the viewer, too, can get a taste of things not all of us are lucky enough to see...
Duncan's photographic work is sold worldwide, both directly and through the following stock libraries:
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
The world's leading provider of science imagery, their staff have specialised knowledge.
(If looking for my work on here the advanced search works a lot better than the quick search).
BRITAIN ON VIEW
The photographic library of the British Tourist Authority, or VisitBritain.
THE HERITAGE TRAIL
A specialised library.
ALAMY IMAGES
Images can be bought and downloaded from here 24/ 7.
Please click on the links to visit these sites.
Limited Edition fine art prints of some images are available at up to A1 size as either Giclée or canvas prints, from PHOTODIMENSION Ltd. See Print Sales page for more details.
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PUBLISHED WORK: - A selection of published outlets to date, in alphabetical order, includes:
Allers Forlag (Sweden, magazines)
Automotive Engineering/ Professional Engineer
BBC Television
Birds (RSPB)
Brittany Ferries
Chicago Science Group (books)
The Dalesman
Dorling Kindersley (books)
The Engineer
Gardens Monthly
The Great Outdoors
Harper Collins (books)
Heritage Magazine
Hodder Education (books)
Infocado (calendars)
The Irish Examiner
Kew Magazine
LE Publications (USA)
Magna (books)
Maskew Miller Longman (books)
The Medici (Christmas cards)
Natural Style Magazine (Italy)
Nexus magazine/ Expat Network
NFU Countryside Magazine
Outdoor Photography
Pearson Education Ltd (books)
Peter Bourne Design Partnership
Practical Photography
The Ramblers Association
Resurgence Magazine
The Royal Horticultural Society
The Scots magazine
The Scottish Field
The Shooting Times
The Stirling Gallery (high class postcards)
The Sunday Express Magazine
Trout and Salmon
Weekend Magazine
World Wildlife Fund
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Except for a few classic shots which have been scanned from 35mm Fujichrome film using a high-end scanning house, these photographs are modern contemporary images shot as Raw files on a Nikon D2X and individually processed in Adobe Lightroom, giving the highest quality digital files.
Routine tweaking of contrast, brightness and minor blemishes is done but no images are manipulated; they are all "as it looked".
In common with photojournalists and nature photographers worldwide, Duncan feels that one of photography's great strengths as a medium is it's veracity and integrity.
All pictures on this website are of low resolution only, and are the copyright of Duncan Shaw Images.
They can be borrowed free of charge for educational or personal projects, but may not be used commercially without permission and payment of an appropriate licence fee.
Please click on CONTACT US.
Thanks.
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"...these stones are at one with the stars.
It makes no difference to them whether they are high or low,
Mountain peak or ocean floor, palace, or pigsty.
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones."
Hugh MacDiarmid: "On a Raised Beach".
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WELCOME:
Duncan Shaw is a 46 year old stock photographer based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, close to the Cairngorm mountains, who specialises in wildlife, nature, landscape and environmental photography.
After growing up on Dartmoor, in north Wiltshire, and in the Yorkshire Dales, he studied geography and zoology at Aberdeen University, before working offshore for twenty years in the North Sea oil industry.
As well as having a passion for wildlife from an early age, Duncan comes from a mountaineering background.
In his twenties he spent several summers in the Alps, solo-climbing Mont Blanc and other high peaks, as well as roughing it in Arctic Norway, the Pyrenees and the USA, and has climbed, skiid, camped, and walked throughout the Scottish Highlands all his adult life.
This background gives him an easy familiarity with remote and wild places, and a profound contentment in their wildlife, weather and landscapes.
Hopefully the viewer, too, can get a taste of things not all of us are lucky enough to see...
Duncan's photographic work is sold worldwide, both directly and through the following stock libraries:
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
The world's leading provider of science imagery, their staff have specialised knowledge.
(If looking for my work on here the advanced search works a lot better than the quick search).
BRITAIN ON VIEW
The photographic library of the British Tourist Authority, or VisitBritain.
THE HERITAGE TRAIL
A specialised library.
ALAMY IMAGES
Images can be bought and downloaded from here 24/ 7.
Please click on the links to visit these sites.
Limited Edition fine art prints of some images are available at up to A1 size as either Giclée or canvas prints, from PHOTODIMENSION Ltd. See Print Sales page for more details.
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PUBLISHED WORK: - A selection of published outlets to date, in alphabetical order, includes:
Allers Forlag (Sweden, magazines)
Automotive Engineering/ Professional Engineer
BBC Television
Birds (RSPB)
Brittany Ferries
Chicago Science Group (books)
The Dalesman
Dorling Kindersley (books)
The Engineer
Gardens Monthly
The Great Outdoors
Harper Collins (books)
Heritage Magazine
Hodder Education (books)
Infocado (calendars)
The Irish Examiner
Kew Magazine
LE Publications (USA)
Magna (books)
Maskew Miller Longman (books)
The Medici (Christmas cards)
Natural Style Magazine (Italy)
Nexus magazine/ Expat Network
NFU Countryside Magazine
Outdoor Photography
Pearson Education Ltd (books)
Peter Bourne Design Partnership
Practical Photography
The Ramblers Association
Resurgence Magazine
The Royal Horticultural Society
The Scots magazine
The Scottish Field
The Shooting Times
The Stirling Gallery (high class postcards)
The Sunday Express Magazine
Trout and Salmon
Weekend Magazine
World Wildlife Fund
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Except for a few classic shots which have been scanned from 35mm Fujichrome film using a high-end scanning house, these photographs are modern contemporary images shot as Raw files on a Nikon D2X and individually processed in Adobe Lightroom, giving the highest quality digital files.
Routine tweaking of contrast, brightness and minor blemishes is done but no images are manipulated; they are all "as it looked".
In common with photojournalists and nature photographers worldwide, Duncan feels that one of photography's great strengths as a medium is it's veracity and integrity.
All pictures on this website are of low resolution only, and are the copyright of Duncan Shaw Images.
They can be borrowed free of charge for educational or personal projects, but may not be used commercially without permission and payment of an appropriate licence fee.
Please click on CONTACT US.
Thanks.
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"...these stones are at one with the stars.
It makes no difference to them whether they are high or low,
Mountain peak or ocean floor, palace, or pigsty.
There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones."
Hugh MacDiarmid: "On a Raised Beach".
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