Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

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• Nigel Dennis:

  So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of

• Nigel Dennis:

  My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and noctu

• Nigel Dennis:

  I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

• Nigel Dennis:

  I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

• Nigel Dennis:

  In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

• Nigel Dennis:

  The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

• Nigel Dennis:

  Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fiftee

• Nigel Dennis:

  Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

• Nigel Dennis:

  I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches,

• Nigel Dennis:

  A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get