Nature photography is what you or I decide it is for ourselves in our own particular circumstances. Whether we use proprietary camera equipment or smartphones. Privileged to be surrounded by nature I have created a number of invaluable assets to help me in what I do. Both at home and when hunting on the trails. All designed to give me an edge one way or another. Every little helps.

Assets include a small but thriving garden pond, a Skinner Moth trap, Hedgehog home, Bird huts and a number of other products. All provide plenty of opportunities and interest. I have also devised aids to help me when on the trails. Similarly scooping out some detritus from the bottom of my pond and sifting through that provided some stunning specimens for my macro rig.

I have not yet made the opportunity to deploy the Skinner (Moth) Trap in the Goyt Valley in the evening. Using the very low energy UV lamp on the trap I can power the trap using a portable power pack which ordinarily starts intransigent engines up to 5 litres. It can run all night using that.