Wildlife and landscape photography from the planet's quiet edges. Fine‑art prints, commissions and small‑group expeditions.
Wildlife and landscape photography from the planet's quiet edges. Fine‑art prints, commissions and small‑group expeditions.
34°N 77°E · −24°C · Hide time:
REC 34°N 77°E · −24°C · hrs
Selected Work · 2016 — 2026
Scroll to travel sideways through the expeditions. Hover any frame to see what it cost in hours.
SVALBARD
78°N 15°E · 2019 — 2025
Arctic fox dens, polar bear on the fast ice, snowy owls in an irruption year. Eleven winters above 78° north.
Arctic fox · Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 4 · Final frame: 1/800s
Polar bear · Storfjorden, Svalbard
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 6 · Final frame: 1/1250s
Snowy owl · Edgeøya, Svalbard
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 8 · Final frame: 1/1800s
BORNEO
5°N 117°E · 2018 — 2024
Thirty-four metres up a fig tree, two wet seasons, one shaft of light. Hornbills, gibbons and the river’s pygmy elephants.
Rhinoceros hornbill · Danum Valley, Borneo
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 7 · Final frame: 1/500s
Borneo pygmy elephant · Kinabatangan, Borneo
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 3 · Final frame: 1/320s
SERENGETI
2°S 34°E · 2016 — 2025
Ground hides at first light, dust-light evenings on the Ndutu plains, and a cheetah who owed me four mornings.
Cheetah · Seronera, Serengeti
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 5 · Final frame: 1/1600s
African elephant · Ndutu Plains, Serengeti
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 2 · Final frame: 1/640s
PATAGONIA
51°S 73°W · 2021 — 2026
Three winters in the Laguna Azul territory. Wind, snow and the best puma light on earth.
Puma · Laguna Azul, Patagonia
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 11 · Final frame: 1/1000s
Guanaco · Torres del Paine, Patagonia
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 2 · Final frame: 1/400s
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Rule: never bait,
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Field Notes · Entry 041
“The best photograph is usually the one you almost walked away from.”
Ossian Reyes trained as a conservation biologist before he ever sold a frame. Fifteen years later the method hasn’t changed: pick a territory, learn it until the animals stop performing, and wait — sometimes 400 hours in a hide — for behaviour that is true.
His work has appeared in BBC Wildlife, National Geographic Traveller, Audubon and Smithsonian, and hangs in private collections across eleven countries.
Every expedition runs on his ethical-fieldcraft pledge: never bait, never disturb, never trade an animal’s calm for a frame.
15 years in the field · 38 countries · 400-hr longest wait · 0 animals baited
Hide 41, Svalbard · 3:12 a.m. · −21°C
light holds. wait.
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Limited Editions
Arctic fox · Kongsfjorden, Svalbard
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 4 · Final frame: 1/800s
Den Watch, Polar Twilight
Edition 11 of 15
Humpback whale · Vava’u, Tonga
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 6 · Final frame: 1/3200s
Breach, Grey Water
Edition 3 of 15
Grey wolf (distant) · Karelian taiga
Hours in the hide: 0 · Attempts: 12 · Final frame: 1/250s
Wolf Country, Blue Hour
Edition 6 of 10
Expeditions 2027 · Small groups, long waits
Four expeditions, six photographers each, no exceptions. Every trip is built around the same fieldcraft I use on commission — hides, patience and zero pressure on the animals.
March 2027 · 9 days · Max 6 photographers · from £6,900
Nine days on the fast ice aboard a small expedition vessel, working the Storfjorden edge where bears hunt seal breathing holes. Days are long, temperatures run to −30°C, and every frame is earned.
Target species: Polar bear · Arctic fox · Glaucous gull
June 2027 · 12 days · Max 6 photographers · from £5,400
Twelve days in primary rainforest, including four mornings on the 34-metre canopy platform where my hornbill frame was made. We finish on the Kinabatangan for the dusk elephant crossings.
Target species: Rhinoceros hornbill · Bornean gibbon · Pygmy elephant
October 2027 · 10 days · Max 6 photographers · from £7,200
Ten days moving with the short-grass herds between Seronera and Ndutu, with ground-hide mornings on the resident cheetahs and long evenings on the dust-light plains. Two vehicles, six photographers — never more.
Target species: Cheetah · Wildebeest · African elephant
July 2027 · 11 days · Max 6 photographers · from £6,400
Eleven days in Torres del Paine in deep winter, tracking pumas on foot with a licensed tracker across the Laguna Azul territory. Wind, snow and long waits — and the best puma light on earth.
Target species: Puma · Guanaco · Andean condor
Commissions · 2026 — 2027