Welcome to Ian Purves Photography

Ian Purves has been a Landscape and Travel photographer from the mid 80’s as a side to being a doctor, academic, Ocean Yachtmaster and company innovator. It has been the digital era that has helped him grow and avidly continue to learn photography as a real passion. During 2012 he has been broadening his experiences with African wildlife in Botswana and Zambia. A trip to Namibia led him to add a D800 and Zeiss Distagon 21mm. Which has radically altered his Landscape approach. Ian tries to maintain an active blog of which most are about photographic subjects.

My photographic ethos is to create attention grabbing images with a narrative in which I hope you find meaning and wonder at nature – a small challenge then!

Galleries

Namibia

North East England

Lake District

African Animals

Flowers

Sunrise & Sunset

Wildlife

Iceland

Scotland

Photography Posts

Sunrise over Lilburn Tower at Dunstanburgh Castle Northumberland–Turner’s View

5 years ago

Inspiration comes from all sorts of places and given I was spending the week in Embleton I clearly h[...]

Autofocus configuration for wildlife

5 years ago

Following on from my ‘personal learning notes’ from my Farne Island blog on wildlife photography tec[...]

Wildlife photography technique – birdlife of the Farne Islands

5 years ago

So in the continual search for improving my wildlife photography I decided a workshop on bird photog[...]

Homage to Sebastião Salgado

6 years ago

Having visited Sebastião Salgado Genesis exhibition at the Natural History Museum and was mightily i[...]

Reflections on Buttermere, Lake District

6 years ago

Well there was a stable high pressure system over the UK, a great forecast with some cloud but littl[...]

Photographic Workshop in Scottish Highlands

6 years ago

So I have just spent a week in the Scottish Highlands at a photographic workshop – The bigger pictur[...]