I am UK based amateur nature and wildlife photographer with particular interest in birds. I use wildlife photography as a great way to find peace and solitude. As Lord Byron put it

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more".

Also, I only "shoot" wild animals. They taste better ;-)