Felix Blog

Hello and welcome to my Wildlife Photography!

For more than 20 years I have been photographing wildlife now and would like to share some of these moments with you. I started out when I was only 15 years old and now at the age of 38 I am still as excited about wildlife photography as on the day when I got my first camera.

Wildlife photography is an art form and images of animals and plants serve as an important link between humans who do not get in touch with nature and the natural world. Wildlife photographs inform and inspire, move and touch people.

Information and inspiration are important tools in conservation. We humans mostly care about the things we know and things we see. Photographs give us this knowledge by teaching us about animals and plants we would never have seen otherwise. They make us aware of an exciting and secret world of life forms around us, a vulnerable world that needs to be protected.

My goal is to combine wildlife photography with wildlife conservation whenever possible. I have been involved in wildlife conservation all my life – in both Sweden and Germany – and have taken part in and run various conservation projects throughout the years.
I started in my early teens when I joined a young wildlife conservationists group. One of our missions was to regularly clear an overgrown wildlife area from bushes and scrub with scythes and rakes.
In the beginning of the 90’s I did my national service as a wildlife warden, conservationist and wildlife guide, guiding thousands of tourists in the Wadden Sea National Park.
As a photographer, I have been involved in Birdlife International’s “Save the albatross” campaign by donating photographs of albatrosses to the project. The project highlighted in an invitation to an unforgettable dinner in London with among others HRH Prince Charles and other celebrities. British conservation work is in many ways exemplary and far ahead of ours. It is run and managed by professionals who stand a chance to fight back the strong economical interests of companies who want to exploit wildlife areas. Because they are trained in management and due to their professionalism they are taken seriously and actually manage to save and conserve wildlife areas. Our own conservation is mostly run by enthusiasts as a hobby. They often have a large insight in a narrow subject e.g. birds but they lack any experience in economics or law. As these are necessary tools in conservation today, they hardly stand a chance against the companies economical interests.
I also run different owl projects which I combine with photography. After having published a book about owls and raptors in 2007, I kicked off Sweden’s largest Barn Owl Project. In less than three years I have built and installed almost 100 barn owl nest boxes as well as 50 Pygmy Owl and Tengmalm’s Owl nest boxes.

Throughout the years my camera has kept me company on many of these occasions. I have published many photographs as well as articles on wildlife related subjects in magazines and books and my aim is to inspire by sharing my photographic and conservation work with you.

This blog will be updated as often as possible and all the news about my wildlife photography and my conservation work will be presented here.

Enjoy!

Best wishes /Felix Heintzenberg