WildPhotos 2011

I'm off to WildPhotos 2011 tomorrow at the Royal Geographic Society. It promises to be an excellent event, and is sold out - but there will be a few tickets on the door tomorrow morning if you get there early...

The speakers this year are as follows:

• Alex Badyaev
• Daniel Beltrá
• Peter Chadwick
• Bruno D'Amicis
• Jack Dykinga
• Ruth Eichhorn
• Jürgen Freund
• Erlend Haarberg
• Paul Hassell
• Bence Máté
• Kathy Moran
• Andrew Parkinson
• Thomas P Peschak
• Mateusz Piesiak
• Benjam Pöntinen 
• Michel Roggo
• Andy Rouse
• Cyril Ruoso
• Paul Souders
• Sophie Stafford
• Zoe Whishaw
• Sven Začek

More details of the event at their site.

Andy Rouse 'Vanishing Worlds' London Exhibition

Andy Rouse has an exhibition in London starting next Monday (19th October) - 'Vanishing Worlds'. It is at the National Geographic store on Regent Street.

I never miss an Andy Rouse book. I attended his talk at the Royal Geographic Society a couple of weeks ago - an excellent evening. Great images and a very good presentation - he is very passionate about his subject.

Full press release here.

(Further talk dates in the post from a few weeks ago here.)

Contribute to the ARKive via Flickr

ARKive now have a group on Flickr which allows users to submit images directly to ARKive:

"ARKive is leading the ‘virtual’ conservation effort, gathering together films and photographs of the world’s threatened animals, plants and fungi into one centralised digital library to create a unique audio-visual record of life on Earth.

ARKive is making this resource accessible to all, from scientists and conservationists, to the general public and school children, as a valuable educational resource and conservation tool.

It is ARKive’s immediate aim to compile audio-visual profiles for the world’s threatened species. In order for us to achieve this, we need help from as wide a variety of donors as possible and we would like to be able to add Flickr users to our growing list of contributors."

Find out more at the ARKive Flickr group and the main ARKive website.

Andy Rouse Talk Dates

Andy Rouse has scheduled a number of talks to mark his 10th year as a professional wildlife photographer:

• September 30th - Royal Geographical Society, London
• October 30th - Hartlepool
• November 11th - Stafford
• November 29th - Glastonbury
• December 5th - Wadhurst

More details on his blog.

WildPhotos 2009

The dates have been announced for WildPhotos 2009: Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th October 2009. Like 2008, it's at the Royal Geographic Society in London (an excellent venue.)

I always meant to write up WildPhotos 2008 as it was a fantastic two days with great speakers and superb images. However I never got around to it. Fortunately they did, and here's their writeup.

If you're a student, a professional wildlife photographer or just a wanna-be like me, you should go. Registration opens in June - you can get on their mailing list by visiting the site linked below.

• Wild Photos

Online UK Species Mapping

There's a fantastic resource for checking out species distribution in the UK, the National Biodiversity Network. It aggregates data from many different organisations to provide maps of species distribution throughout the UK. It's free to access and well worth a look - this map below was generated with their online tools, and shows the recent records of brown hare sightings in the UK. 

• The National Biodiversity Network

(For some reason I can't get this image into Blogger without it getting compressed massively. The original 30k PNG file looks perfect.)