A winter wildlife photography session in the Forest of Dean.

My name is Chris Grady and I was born in Somerset in 1958 to a farming family spending my entire childhood being brought up in the beautiful English countryside, and my love for it has always stayed with me. At the age of sixteen I moved to Hereford and remained there until moving to Devon in 2011. After leaving school I became an Agricultural Engineer and later moving into management in the motor parts industry. In 1994 I went into business for nearly twelve years and at the end of 2005 sold it and am now semi-retired and since been spending all of my time doing all of those things I love to do - Skiing, fishing, walking, but mainly wildlife photography.

I did dabble in SLR Photography many years ago but have only been taking holiday and family snaps with various compact film cameras since then. But about eight years ago I bought my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 7900 to use on a holiday in the Canadian Rockies and I got some fabulous results. In fact it gave me the bug again after almost 20 years! The reason I hadn't taken the plunge with digital before was that the quality could match that of film without paying mega bucks for a top end camera. But now digital has caught up and surpassed the bounds of traditional film photography and will carry on improving in performance to levels we can only dream of. Also at the same time the cost is reducing which is making quality photography available to more and more people.

For about five or six years or so now I have been the proud owner of various Canon digital SLR cameras, lenses up to 600mm, an A3 colour printer, photo editing software and various other bits and pieces. There's no stopping me now! Just a very steep learning curve to overcome, with problems ranging from - How to get up close to your subject, through to how to adjust poorly exposed images, with many, many more trials and tribulations in between before you can say you are happy with the finished print!

In the past few years I am proud to say that my images have been used all around the world in various publications including national newspapers, magazines, books and have also been used by many organizations and companies in sales campaigns, on website's and various types of literature.

The images on the website are the result of some five solid years taking wildlife pictures in this country and on a few trips around the world including Borneo, Bolivia and Australia. All images are available for purchase as prints and also for all types of commercial use.