Until Summer 2011 I used:
Canon 1D Mark III body
Canon 550D body
Canon 500mm IS F4L lens
Canon 400mm F5.6L lens
Tamron 180mm macro lens
Canon 1.4x EF extender
Kenko DG300 2x extender
Canon 580 Mk 11 flash


I now use:
Panasonic GH-2 body
Olympus PEN EP-2 body
Kowa Prominar 500mm f5.6 lens
Panasonic 100-300 IS lens
Olympus 9-18mm lens
Olympus 70-300mm macro lens
Panasonic 8mm Fish-eye lens
Olympus 14-42mm lens
Sigma 105mm Macro lens
Gitzo 3530 tripod
Gitzo Monopod
Wimberley Sidekick


The Digital Darkroom

These days,understanding how to manipulate the digital image is just as important as camera technique. There are literally hundreds of books, DVDs, websites and podcasts to assist in this. I strongly recommend the following which have been so helpful to me:

www.birdsasart.com - Art Morris's book 'The Art of Bird Photography' and his new CD, 'The Art of Bird Photography II' are essential reading.

www.lightroomkillertips.com - A site full of great ideas and shortcuts for image processing.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC by Martin Evening. Probably the 'best of the bunch' as far as Photoshop manuals are concerned.

My digital darkroom consists of:
Apple iMac 20" computer
Apple iMacbook Air laptop
Apple Aperture
Nik Software Suite
Adobe Photoshop CS4 - for image manipulation
Canon i965 inkjet printer