Steve Williamson Wildlife Photography

Here we see a couple of shots of a young female grizzly bear ‘on a mission’, making her way along the shoreline of the Khutzeymateen inlet on the BC coast. We’ve seen her a couple of times now and she was affectionately known as ‘honey’ due to the colouration of her coat and her mission in this sequence of shots was to head to one of her favourite feeding locations as ta...

Here we see a couple of shots of a Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) – one fishing for a mighty morsel in a tidal pool and one flying low over and reflecting nicely off of one of the salinas in Aveiro, Portugal. Although ‘little’ by name this species of egret is not the smallest of the family name, that honour belongs to the cattle egret, which is slightly smaller by a cen...

We came across this pregnant lioness up amongst the boulders of a kopje in the central Serengeti region of Tanzania. As previously mentioned, female lions will take themselves off alone into the hills shortly before giving birth and...

Here we see a couple of shots of a new (for me at least) geographical species of orca – members of the mid-Atlantic group. I came across this group (three in total) whilst on a whale watch trip off Sao Miguel Island in the Azores last month. Although I’ve seen many, many orca before, seeing a totally new group from those in British Columbia and Alaska was an exciting cha...

Here we see a female rufous hummingbird once again frozen in midair by the speed of the camera shutter. But it is her wing oscillation and beat that keeps her suspended or hovering like that and alas, my camera’s shutter at the time was nowhere near quick enough to freeze the motion of those exceptionally fast tiny wings. Understandably, hummingbirds are the fastest bird...