The Wild Images Team

The guide is an important feature of any photographic tour. All Wild Images photography tours are accompanied by one or more professional leaders with the knowledge and experience to make the tour wholly successful. Wild Images leaders know their areas thoroughly and take pride in sharing their photographic knowledge with those who travel with them. Our constant aim is to try and ensure that every participant on our photography holidays has a great time.

Not only are Wild Images guides highly skilled photographers, they are also friendly, competent and approachable individuals who are experts at dealing with the day to day running of the tour, confidently coping with any problems that may arise and so greatly increasing the chance that everything will run smoothly. Leading a photographic tour in Europe or North America is one thing, leading one in a developing country where logistical problems are a fact of life is quite another! We can justifiably claim unrivalled experience in many parts of the world.

The travel organising skills of our office staff and their caring commitment to our clients and friends are second to none. Having such a dedicated and efficient team behind you makes all the difference when it comes to having an enjoyable tour, both before, during and after the holiday.

You can call or email our office at any time and ask us any question you would like to. You are going to find helpful and courteous service, and we always enjoy chatting with actual or potential customers, so if you have any questions at all about any of our photography tours then please get in touch. We want to hear from you!

Zoltán Baczó

Zoltán is based in Székelyudvarhely (Odorheiu Secuiesc) and his local patch is the Hargita Mountain and the various wetlands around his home town. He has also travelled extensively in the Danube-delta area over the years and had led many birdwatching tours there.

Mark Beaman

Mark Beaman lives in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire with his Australian partner and fellow photographer Inger Vandyke. He is Managing Director of Wild Images. Mark has travelled to every continent, including Antarctica, to view and photograph wildlife and has a worldwide interest in every aspect of wildlife travel.

Sean Braine

Sean Braine is from one of Namibia’s leading ‘natural history families’ (his father Steve is an eminent researcher and guide himself). Born and bred in the Namibian bush, Sean’s expertise in leading photographic trips in Namibia is unrivalled.

Ingrid Koedood

Ingrid Koedood was born and raised in the Netherlands and has been involved with photography from a young age. As a young girl, she was captivated by her father’s photography hobby, spending countless hours in the darkroom developing photos. This early exposure ignited her passion. While she later pursued an MBA, working on significant projects […]

Oliver Krüger

German born Oliver Krüger has studied animal behaviour, ecology and evolution at the Universities of Bielefeld, Oxford and Cambridge. After his PhD in 2000, he moved to the University of Cambridge as a Post-doctoral researcher where he led an independent research group in behavioural ecology from 2003-2009. During his time at Cambridge, he was also […]

Pete Morris

Pete lives in Lancashire, England with his partner Nina and sons Jack and Josh, and is a Wild Images tour leader. He has been birdwatching for as long as he can remember, growing up on the North Kent Marshes and at Dungeness. After graduating in Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia in 1987 […]

Zoltan Nagy

Zoltan is a nature photographer from Transylvania, Romania who has a great passion for nature and the outdoors. His inspiration and keen interest in the natural heritage of Romania stems from the Carpathian Mountains where he was born. While studying Natural Sciences in High School he started doing photography seriously and after his graduation he […]

János Oláh

János has been a keen birder from the age of 10. János (pronounced ‘Yanosh’) speaks fluent English, has a degree in Ecology from the University of Debrecen and is now doing post-graduate research on the ecology of aquatic birds (especially shorebirds, on which he has published a number of scientific papers).

Chikara Otani

Chikara Otani lives in Tokyo. Passionately interested in birds and other wildlife since his early years, he spent some time at school in England before setting off on travels which have taken him throughout the world in pursuit of wildlife.

Dhanushka Perera

Dhanushka previously a Banker by profession gave up his hectic banking career to fulfill his dream to become a naturalist, he is an expert in birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and is a past member of young zoologist association and holds a degree in chemistry from the institute of chemistry (ICHEM). He is also a wild […]

Bernd Rohrschneider

Bernd Rohrschneider lives with his wife and young family in Germany’s oldest city, Trier, near the border of Luxembourg. When he is not leading our wildlife photography tours he works as a neurologist in a hospital emergency room. Bernd’s passion for photography evolved from an interest he has had in wildlife and nature since he […]

Nigel Sadler

Nigel lives in Lancashire with his wife Alison and his two sons Aaron and Harry. He has worked at Wild Images since 2013 and is our tour logistics wizard, possessing an extraordinary level of worldwide knowledge. After graduating with a degree in Zoology in 1997 (where he specialised in shark feeding mechanisms in his final […]

Yousuf Tushar

Yousuf Tushar is recognized as one of the leading freelance documentary photographers in Bangladesh. Photography is not only his profession, it is his passion, hobby and life. After graduating from Dhaka University he started his professional career and since then he has been working full-time documenting the human rights issues, environment and people of Bangladesh […]

Inger Vandyke

Australian professional wildlife photojournalist and expedition leader Inger Vandyke now lives in the Forest of Bowland in northern England with her partner and fellow Wild Images photographer Mark Beaman. Inger has a long-established photographic career publishing images and stories in over 30 publications worldwide.

Mike Watson

Mike Watson lives in East Lancashire with his Hungarian partner Évi and their son Alexander. Mike has been an avid photographer for more than 25 years and spends most of his spare time with camera in hand. A keen wildlife enthusiast since childhood, his sharp eyes will surely ensure some great wildlife encounters! Mike is a very approachable guide and always willing to share his photographic knowledge with participants on his tours.

Virginia Wilde

Virginia Wilde lives in Edinburgh with her two children, Esme and Albie. Virginia is a photojournalist with a life-long passion for wildlife and the natural world. She spent years working in conflict zones such as Afghanistan and Libya – but has returned to her love of nature and is now based in Scotland. Virginia has […]