The galleries on this website are just a small part of the many thousands of images in David Courtenay’s portfolio. David has always relished the challenge of Wildlife Photography:

"...being at one with nature, finding, tracking and sometimes baiting ‘your own’ animal. “Getting to know the animal’s behavior, its habitats – that’s what motivates me; to be one to one.”

David spends the majority of his free time studying and researching his subject; in the field, reference literature and on the internet.

“The more you know about the animal you have chosen to photograph, the more your chances of success”.

David loves to travel to foreign countries and photograph exotic and more often than not endangered species, but openly admits that Safari Style photography is not difficult as you are paying a guide to ‘show’ you the wildlife, you are paying for their knowledge. It’s local wildlife that throws up the greatest challenges where you have to think for yourself, you put in the effort and reap the rewards.

It can be a selfish, sometimes lonely way of life but one that can give great rewards and personal satisfaction, and as nature is such a huge subject there is always the next challenge to look forward to…