Amateur photographer, business owner, and a new Flickr member!

Photography website: darrenhebert.com

Business website: nrtraininggroup.com

Five years ago, I created more time in my life for photography, focusing first on landscapes, country scenes, and moving water. Within the past year, I have dabbled with wildlife photography and am now more engaged than ever with photographing various species, brainstorming projects, and planning photography-related trips. I am particularly interested in photographing and learning more about owls and wildlife in general, as they now occupy most of my reading, research, field days and travel. I lose track of time when hiking challenging terrain, dawning chestwaders to navigate riverflows, or waiting forever (it seems) in the worst weather to capture an image that uniquely reflects my reverence for nature and wild animals.

By profession, I am a registered professional biologist who, for 35+ years, has worked extensively throughout western Canada. During this time, I have spent most of my professional life teaching and managing training in private industry and post-secondary institutions in British Columbia. In 2016, I changed paths, and launched a private training school where, today, our amazing team develops and delivers in-person and online professional development training programs worldwide to more than 22,000 natural resource professionals and indigenous learners.

My future includes more photography trips (Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks September 2023, Africa February 2024) and projects such as expanding my website.

Thanks for stopping by, and drop me a line!

Darren

My Gear:

Wildlife gear:

Sony A1 (x2)

Sony FE 600mm F4 GM OSS

Sony FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS

Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 GM OSS

Sony FE/4 24-105 G OSS

Landscape gear:

Nikon Z7

NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S

NIKKOR Z 14-30mm f/4 S

NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 S

NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR

NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S

NIKKOR Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S

Assorted Gear:

Really Right Stuff (RRS) Ascend-14 tripod

RRS Versa Mk2 Series 2 tripod

RRS BH-55 ballhead

RRS BH-30 ballhead

Gitzo GM4542 Series 4 Carbon Fiber Monopod

Wimberley WH-200 Gimbal Tripod Head

Wimberley MH-100 MonoGimbal Head

Kiboko Gura Gear 30L camera backpack

LowerPro Protactic 450AM camera backpack

Apple MacBook Pro 16” M1 laptop

Apple iMac 27” Retina 5K desktop

Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan