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A list of photographs held on file as 35mm, 6x4.5cm or 6x7cm transparencies. Images can be sent to you as transparencies or digitally on a CD.

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Wild areas: As listed under Landscapes, and below.

National Parks & reserves: UK: Dartmoor, Exmoor, Peak District, Lake District; Japan: Mt Fuji, Mt Aso, Kirishima, Akan, Shiretoko; Taiwan: Kenting, Yangmingshan, Taroko, Yushan; China: Everest, Hailuogou Glacier, Wolong, Emeishan, Jiuzhaigou, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, Jizushan, Wuyishan, Huangshan, Changbaishan, Zhalong, Jingbo Lake, Wulingshan, Qinghai Lake, Kanas Lake, Heaven Lake; Philippines: Mt Kanlaon, Mt Apo, Agusan Marsh, Siargao Island, Balicasag Island, Olango Island, Apo Island, Apo Reef, Sohoton Cave, Subic-Bataan, Mt Pulag, Coron Island, Calauit Island, St Paul's Underground River, El Nido, Tubbataha Reef, Pescador Island, Mt Mayon, Mt Bulusan, Batanes Islands; Greece: Samaria Gorge, Crete.

 

Wildlife: Animals

Mammals: Giant panda, Lesser/red panda, Binturong (Bearcat), Golden monkey, Tibetan, Rhesus & Long-tailed macaques, Philippine tarsier, Flying lemur, Asiatic black bear, Siberian tiger, Sumatran tiger, Clouded leopard, Snow leopard, Leopard cat, Gem-faced civet, Pere David's deer, Muntjac deer, Calamian deer, Mouse deer, Visayan spotted deer, Fallow deer, Himalayan goral, Formosan serow, Asian short-clawed otter, European otter, Banded mongoose, Meercat, Western Hedgehog, Grey Squirrel, Hippopotamus, North American prairie marmot, Hartmann's mountain zebra, Giraffe, Eland, Philippine fruit-bats, Short-finned pilot whale, Spinner dolphin, Yangtze River dolphin, Atlantic grey seal.   

Birds:   Cranes: Black-necked crane, Japanese crane, White-naped crane, Demoiselle crane, Sarus crane. Pheasants: Common pheasant, Golden pheasant, Silver pheasant, Lady Amherst's pheasant, Himalayan monal, Blue eared-pheasant, Swinhoe's pheasant, Mikado pheasant, Palawan peacock pheasant, Red jungle fowl. Waders: Oriental stork, Grey heron, Chinese pond heron, Black-crowned night-heron, Rufous night-heron, Little egret, Intermediate egret, Great egret, Cattle egret, Black-winged stilt, Redshank, Greenshank, Turnstone, Dunlin, Sandpiper, various Plovers, Sanderling. Ducks, geese, swans & other water birds: Mallard, Baikal teal, Ferruginous duck, Pochard, Tufted duck, Common shelduck, Ruddy shelduck, Northern shoveler, Yellow-nib duck, Philippine duck, Wood duck, Wandering whistling-duck, Spotted whistling-duck, Mandarin duck, Mute swan, Whooper swan, Black swan, Greylag goose, Brent goose, Barnacle goose, Bar-headed goose, Great cormorant, Oriental darter, Common coot, Common moorhen, Purple swamphen, Brown noddy, Black booby. Raptors: Collared scops-owl, Philippine scops-owl, Philippine eagle-owl, Black-eared kite, Philippine eagle, Crested serpent-eagle, Philippine hawk-eagle, White-bellied sea-eagle, Brahminy kite. Pigeons: Wood pigeon, Luzon & Mindanao bleeding-heart pigeons, Nicobar pigeon, Pompadour green pigeon, Green imperial pigeon, Pied imperial pigeon, Pink-bellied imperial pigeon, White-eared brown dove, Metallic wood pigeon, Emerald dove, Yellow-breasted fruit dove, Spotted dove. Woodland birds: Pekin robin, Fujian niltava, Blue-&-white flycatcher, Emei leiocichla, various laughingthrushes, various yuhinas, various bulbuls, Chinese starling, Rufous-backed shrike, Brown shrike, Rufous-necked scimitar babbler, Japanese robin, Bali mynah, Great hornbill, Tarictic hornbill, Rufous hornbill, Lord Derby's parakeet, Dollarbird, Blue-throated bee-eater, Asian fairy-bluebird, Coleto, Hooded pita, Blue-winged pitta, Olive-backed sunbird, Blackbird, Song thrush, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Green woodpecker.

Reptiles & Amphibians: Philippine crocodile, Common skink, Thai water dragon, Komodo dragon, Monitor lizard, Anglehead lizard, Toad-headed agamid lizard, Grass lizard, other lizards, Burmese python, Red-necked keelback, Hong Kong newt, Romer’s tree frog, Turtles.

Insects: Butterflies & moths: Scarce swallowtail, Silver-washed fritillary, Bath white butterfly, Common swallowtail, Common tiger butterfly, Paris peacock, Great Mormon swallowtail, Red lacewing, Yasoda tripunctata, Faun butterfly, Tiger moth, Lucaena idea, Common bluebottle butterfly, Blue-spotted crow butterfly, Geometrid moth, Lyaeides argyrognomon & Brown tiger moth. Dragonflies & damselflies: Orthetrum sp dragonfly & Ordonota damselflies. Mantises: Creoboter sp & Tenodera sp. Beetles etc: Brown cicada, Red-nosed cicada, Yellow mealworm beetle, Shield bug, Litchi lantern bug & Camphor chain scale insect. Other: Paper wasps.

Other invertebrates: Wide range of coral species in seas around the Philippines; some spiders & crustaceans.

 

Wildlife: Plants (wild)

Trees: Temperate: Various Eurasian oaks, birches, chestnuts, spruces, larches, hemlocks, pines, cryptomeria & Ginkgo. Sub-tropical & Tropical: evergreen chestnuts & oaks, Shorea & Karpia dipterocarps, Rubber, Camphor, Banyan, Pandanus, mangrove species. Erythrina stricta, Yunnan pine & Camellia reticulata. Shown as whole trees & various details.

Shrubs: Cotoneaster, Pyracantha, Berberis, Pandanus, Oxytropis, Artemisia.

Palms: Rattan, fan palm, coconut palm, oil palm.

Climbers: Pandanus, Rattan, Cheeseplant, various lianas.

Ferns: Cyathea tree ferns, maidenhair ferns, bird’s nest ferns, heart’s tongue fern.

Flowers: Rhododendrons & azaleas: R. campanulatum, R. chrysanthum, R. augustinii, R. aff polylepis, R. wightii, R. arboreum & R. aff lutescens. Iris scariosa, Paeonia veitchii, Gentian, Aquilegia, Lampshade poppywort, Marsh marigold, Corydalis, Impatiens aquatica, Eranthenium, Thladiantha, Hedychium, Dianthus, Aensliaea & Foxglove; assorted flowers of Crete. Lilies: L aff. concolor, Day lily & Indian lotus. Primula: Cowslip & P. nivalis. Climbers: Clematis orientalis & Aristolochia sp. Orchids: Pleione sp, Lady’s slipper orchid & Macodes sp.

Herbs & grasses: Various bamboos, Selaginella, wild raspberry (tropical form), wild strawberry, Paris polyphylla, Lycopodium & Sphagnum mosses, Cabbage lichen & Elephant-eared yam, Bluebell, Aquilegia.

Mediterranean plants: Cretan palm; Cretan pine (Pinus brutia), Wild thyme, (Coridothymus capitatus); Chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus); Rock rose (Cistus creticus); Jerusalem sage (Phlomis fruticosa); Yellow asphodel (Asphodeline lutea); Anacamptis pyramidalis orchid; Serapias orientalis orchid; Ebenus cretica leguminous red flower; wild oleander (Nerium oleander); Yellow horned-poppy (Glaucium flavum Crantz); Echium angustifolium herb; Notobasis syriaca thistle; Dracunculus vulgaris lily; Hottentot fig (Carpobrotus edulis); Caper; Sidalcea.

Conservation

Conifer plantation being cleared for heathland habitat restoration; scrub being cleared from heathland; community & commercial tree-planting; construction of the Eden Project – greenhouses & rainforest planting, the world's largest conservatories housing a rainforest; captive breeding at zoos; people visiting zoos & interacting with animals; restoration of abandoned opencast coal mine workings in eastern Germany; seabirds (guillemots & gannets) lying on beaches, killed by oil at sea; oiled seabirds being cleaned; rehabilitated seabirds being released; tracking for signs of otters in Britain; captive breeding of endangered animals; forestry workers & volunteers planting tree seedlings; deforestation in a Chinese nature reserve; logging in Britain.

Zoos

Views of zoos and zoo animals in Britain and Singapore; care of animals; modern zoo facilities; people interacting with zoo animals.

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