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 BIOGRAPHY
Michael Leach has been a full-time wildlife author and photographer
since 1977.
In
the 1980s he spent five years filming wildlife documentaries for
TV; he worked on more than 100 programmes but finally decided that
he prefers working with books rather than television.
Today
Michael works mainly with mammals and birds. He is a specialist
in high-speed photographic techniques that freeze rapid action –
such as birds in flight – at 1/20,000th of a second
Siberian
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Over
the past 20 years Michael has travelled extensively to track down
some of the world's most charismatic wildlife.
He
has worked with polar bears in the Arctic, lemurs in Madagascar,
Mountain Gorillas in Rwanda, Orang-utans in Borneo, Sperm whales
around the Azores, monkeys in the Amazon rainforest and countless
other species in their natural habitat.
Michael's
photographs have been appeared in 600+ books and in more than 50
countries; plus every major wildlife/environmental magazine in Britain
and U.S.A.
They
have been used in publications such as:
| Sunday
Times |
Microsoft
Encarta |
Country
Life |
| The
Telegraph |
New
Scientist |
R.S.P.B.
Birds |
| B.B.C.
Wildlife |
Natural
World |
Radio
Times |
| Encyclopaedia
Britannica |
Smithsonian
Magazine |
National
Geographic |
| Country
Living |
Practical
Photography |
David
Attenborough's
"Life of Birds" |
| The
Observer |
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The
Guardian |
Michael
has written articles for a
wide variety of magazines such as:
Observer
Magazine
Country
Life
Country
Quest
Countryside
Birdwatching
The
Lady
Amateur
Photographer
SHE
Practical
Photography
R.S.P.C.A. World
Photo Answers
Woman & Home
What Camera
Geographical
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These
cover subjects as diverse as crocodile farming, otters,
spiders, motorway wildlife, Galapagos tortoises, owl mythology,
polar bears, foxes, wildlife photography, urban wildlife
etc,
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Television
film-work includes:
| World
About Us
Really Wild Show
Wildtrack
The Ark
You Can't See the Woods
(with David Bellamy), |
Bluetits
and Bumblebees
(with Chris Baines)
ECO
Fiddling With Nature
(with Yehudi Menuhin)
Countryside Hour |
Exhibitions:
Michael
has staged 50 + one-man exhibitions in venues from Shrewsbury
Castle and The Brewery Centre Arts in Kendal to Hereford
Cathedral and Centrepoint in London.
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Buzzard
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Lectures:
Michael
Leach is a lecturer on the national speaker list of the
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (R.S.P.B.), British
Trust for Ornithology (B.T.O.) and The National Trust.
He
gives around 100 illustrated talks a year.
They
are presented to a wide variety of organisations such Literary
Societies, Arts Festivals, Natural History Societies, Universities,
Lecture Societies, National Park Study Centres, Philosophy
Societies, Camera Clubs, Women's Institutes, Fine Arts Societies,
Rotary Clubs, Round Tables, Inner Wheel, Photographic Conventions,
After Dinner events, etc.
Please
click here for more lecture information
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