Abernethy Forest in Strathspey is an ancient Caledonian pinewood which colonised Scotland as the great ice-sheets melted at the end of the last ice-age 10,000 years ago. Abernethy Forest is home to diverse wildlife, including ospreys, capercaillie, and red squirrels. Comprised mainly of Scots pines, the other species of trees are birch and rowan but the under-storey is mainly heather and ferns with juniper and blaeberry and many specialist plants such as cowberry, twinflower and wintergreen.
Mark Hamblin has worked as a freelance nature photographer since 1995, creating images for international photographic agencies; providing specialist guiding services and working on multi-media conservation projects.
Mark has published and collaborated on several books including Wild Peak, Wild Land - Images of nature from the Cairngorms, Tooth & Claw and 2020VISION. He was also a contributing photographer for the Wild Wonders of Europe project working on stories in Lithuania and The Netherlands.
Mark is a director of the social enterprise company, Wild Media Foundation, who produce communications material for a range of clients as well as working on their own projects. Their current project, SCOTLAND: The Big Picture amplifies the case for a wilder Scotland, and Mark is part of a team of photographers and videographers currently gathering material for a range of media products.
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