Andy Rouse. Professional Wildlife Photography.

Andy Rouse is a wildlife photographer, and an inspiration to all wildlife photographers.  He is well know through out world over.  A unique and charismatic figure, and is famed for his ability to capture stunning moments from live animals and bird life.  He as a trade mark stance of being close up and personal to some of the most fascinating and potentially dangerous animals but, always showing the animals the respect that they deserve. 


Andy is well known for is passion for the natural world and his immense talent without standing images.  Andy's images have been acknowledged as being some of the finest images in the world today.  He as consistently won awards in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the year competitions up to date he won 7 awards for his outstanding images.  He has also been runner up in the European Wildlife Photographer of the year and had several winners in the Nature's Best Competition too.

He was one of the very first professional photographers to experiment using digital medium equipment.  Due to his immense talent in computer technology, this from a past life in being a software engineer he as been able to filly embrace the flexibility of shooting digital images.


Andy Rouse was one of the pioneers that worked and developed the market for the highly successful work flow Raw shooter.   

He as been successful on TV with some wildlife television programmes.  Andy made two highly successful television series entitled "Wildlife Photographer which saw him going about his daily work as a professional.  He has presented shows and is a charismatic presenter who is an expert on the wildlife that he photo's, his wildlife Photographers series had great reviews, with several pick of the days choices and some live TV promotion on the Richard and Judy show.


Andy has been a regular writer in magazines, he as has written regular columns and features dispensing advice, encouragement and inspiration to amateur photography for some years.  And is currently writing a weekly column for amateur photographer.  To date he has published in the region of a dozen books from technical  issues, to  wild life books.  He has self published his latest book, Tigers a Celebration of Life, in which he donates 25% of his profits to tiger conservation. 


Some of Andy's best shots are of the Kingfisher which are shown above and below these paragraphs.   "These challenges are the essence of life, it is what keeps the blood flowing through our veins and keeps us going through adversity."  "It doesn't matter if your challenges is to to lift the entire weight stack at your local gym or to cut down on your favourite chocolate, it is the aim of always striving to be better that really counts". (Andy Rouse.)

As a professional Andy Rouse is was of the best Wildlife photographer there is today as you can see with the photography's of this beautiful little bird the Kingfisher, that images take some beating, and to capture these like this is outstanding.  This is what he had to say about these shots and how they were set up.  "From experience  at photographing the fast and the furious, all over the world I knew that I could freeze the action with the top shutter speed of my DSLR - 1/8000th sec. "To get this kind of speed I needed to shoot in the brightest midday light, something quite alien to me, and at ISO400.  Above this and I knew that the images would be so noisy that they would be commercially useless, one reason why I chose to use the EOS 1D MK2 for its great noise performance.  Even with these conditions I couldn't get the shutter sped I needed at F4 (F2.8 would have little depth of field) so I deliberately set the exposure compensation to -2.  This would give me a relatively dark image but a much needed increase in shutter speed to 1/800th.  The under exposure didn't worry me as I knew that with Raw shooter I could process the noise out of the image whilst retaining good subject detail. At the end of the day i had no choice.  To minimise disturbance i decided to put the camera remotely in the water and trigger it by eye. Yep no laser beams for me which added to the challenge.  It also made success taste that much sweeter".

These are some of the best wildlife bird photographs that you could ever come across they are shape, colours are nature, and the detail of the bird is outstanding.