TITLE: "Mono close-up of half African elephant head"

An African elephant stares at the camera, showing its wrinkled skin, long trunk and left eye and tusk. Shot with a Nikon D810 in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania in January 2018.
ISO 3600, 800mm, f/5.6, 1/500

AUTHOR: Nick Dale (United Kingdom)

I wanted to be a photographer when I was 15, but my mother said I could always take it up later – so that was that for 30 years! Here’s to what might have been…

I turned professional in 2013, and I now focus mainly on wildlife photography. I’ve taken pictures in 24 countries on all seven continents with my Nikon D800 and D810 digital SLRs and a range of lenses and accessories.

You can find more details of my trips and exhibitions plus a few articles about photographic techniques on my Blog, but here are a few highlights:

Sales

sold over 5,000 images to buyers including National Geographic, the Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Express, Daily Mail Online and Lonely Planet
provided the cover picture for a magazine
sold 36 prints to private collectors, including the owner of a new luxury hotel in Hong Kong
sold over 200 greetings cards and postcards at exhibitions and through Gerhold in Putney and Willow Bough Tea Rooms
worked for clients including a tennis club, a milliner, a local councillor, a tuition agency and a procurement consultancy
published books on India, Antarctica and a local wedding

Exhibitions

was named artist-in-residence at 508 King's Road
held solo exhibitions at the Norman Plastow Gallery in Wimbledon Village and at 508 King's Road
took part in Glaziers' Art Fair, Parallax Art Fair and various shows at 508 King's Road and Gabriel Fine Art
had three images shown at the Saatchi Gallery
took part in see | me exhibitions on Facebook and in New York

Competitions

won the weekly Sunday Times/Audley Travel Big Shot competition (and was runner-up twice)
won the National Geographic Photo of the Day award
won the Exodus Monthly Photo Competition (and was runner-up)
won the Gold Award in the Wildlife category of The Societies Photographic Competition and was Highly Commended in the Nature category
won the Judge’s Award in four Pixoto competitions (Best Zebra, Wolves, The Art of Fly Fishing and Only Yellow Birds)
was chosen for the National Geographic Daily Dozen
was runner-up in the Guardian readers' travel photography competition
was runner-up three times in a row in The Daily Telegraph's weekly Big Picture competition (here, here and here)
was Highly Commended in the Society of International Wildlife and Nature Photographers' Life on Earth competition

Other

joined the Society of International Nature & Wildlife Photographers (SINWP)
gave photography talks on an Antarctic cruise ship, at the SW19 Women's Institute and at Malden Camera Club
gave lessons to five amateur photographers