Ben Kirby Photography Administrator

I have supported and been a member of the Kent & South East London branch of Butterfly Conservation for many years. Members of the committee have spent many years writing and producing the book “Butterflies of Kent & South East London” which is now available to purchase. During the pre-publication […]

Back in April, I posted a blog article that I won the Natural History PDI Competition at my local camera club. This month (June) I picked up the award trophy, which I can keep until the following season.

I went to visit Luke Jerram’s ‘Gaia’ at Rochester Cathedral. Measuring seven metres in diameter, Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface. The artwork provides the opportunity to see our planet on this scale, floating in three-dimensions. I will add a YouTube video of ‘Gaia’ spinning around […]

Whilst planting up my hanging baskets in the garden a Damselfly caught my eye, flying over my garden pond. Armed only with my mobile I managed to take a photo and processed it in Adobe Photoshop. A little bit of sharpening and the photo below is the final result. After […]

As mentioned in my last post, I have changed my DSLR camera and been slowly working my way through all the menus on the Sony A9 MKII. I think I now have all the menus\setting setup the way I like. Last Sunday (22nd May 2022), I went around my local […]

I have taken the plunge and changed my DSLR to a new mirrorless one. I have also moved away from Canon to Sony. I have started to use a Sony A9 MKII and so far I am very impressed with the photos I have taken with it. The menus, settings […]

For the first time, my local camera club run a mobile phone photo competition. The idea was to allow members to enter photos taken on a mobile phone. No tablets or DLSR’s allowed 🙂 The judge awarded my image below 16 and commented it would be one of his Commended […]

During one of my morning walks, I found a male Orange Tip butterfly at roost on a Milkmaid. I decided to try out a test. I took the same photo with my mobile and DSLR. The first photo is with my mobile and the second with a DSLR. Whilst the […]

Some of my bird photos were used for a fund raising poster, at a garden centre. Hopefully they will help raise some donations 🙂

During one of my lunch hours I visited my local nature reserve to see what wildlife I could find. I set myself a challenge to only use my mobile phone and not a DSLR. I managed to have a great hour photographing and recording some video of butterflies. I watched, […]