Last Wednesday, on February 17th, I visited the monthly meeting of the Danish Nature Photographers Association (NFD) in Copenhagen. Chairman Klaus Bjerre had asked me to talk about “high-speed flash photography”, a technique that I have been using for some years now.
The talk had the title “behind the scenes of large photo projects”. The show was in English, it took about one and three quarters of an hour and was revealing the often hard work and the preparations behind four different photo projects. About 20 keen wildlife photographers came to see my photographs of eagle feeding, kingfisher-photography, owl photography and my latest project “Waterworld”. Quite a few photographers had technical questions about the flash techniques that I use. It was obvious that some of the photographers had been thinking about using high-speed-flash photography themselves, which is very nice. And I got the impression that some of the photographers will soon start high-speed flash projects of their own. At least I hope so.
Kingfisher at River Rönne Å in Skåne, Sweden. The photograph is a result of very many hours of hard work (and not a result of a really good and expensive camera, as many people strangely think)! The image has been photographed with “High-speed-flash photography”. During the talk I have revealed the details behind this and several other high-speed-flash photography images.
For me it was an honor to get invited to Copenhagen and to meet other keen photographers. And of course it is great to get feedback and to hear that one’s work has been inspiring others.