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Tragopan @tragopan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Check out the Tragopan Rain Covers for Wildlife Photography! Both tripod and handheld versions available. Small, Medium and Large sizes. With @espen13.bsky.social 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndYL...

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Tragopan Rain Cover for Wildlife Photography

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Still water, sudden motion. A grebe mid-bath — every droplet catching the first of the morning light. These moments ask you to wait, and wait, and then be ready. OM-1, 150-400mm f/4.5 @omsystem.bsky.social #omsystem 🪶 #birds

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Back at Dovre to photograph the muskox! 😃📷

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Sometimes the birds come to you! This bullfinch was systematically moving along this branch and eating the buds right outside my bedroom window. Perthshire, Scotland February 2024 OM-1ii, 150-400mm @omsystem.bsky.social 🪶 #birds #birdphotography

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Great tit flying from the nest 📷 OM-1ii, 12-24mm f/2.8 Pro Capture - OI Share app remote trigger This image is part of my OM System Pro Capture Course 📗 A comprehensive guide to gear, settings and technique for using Pro Capture for wildlife photography. #omsystem #birds 🪶

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Coal tit with the new 50-200mm f/2.8 📷 Join the OM Club 📷 Get access to: - OM System for Wildlife Photography Course - Pro Capture for Wildlife Photography Course - OM Guides (Beginner Macro OM System) - Let’s Shoot - Behind the Image Stories - Recorded OM System Talks - OM-3 Guides #birds 🪶

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Wren in the forest 🎶 OM-1ii, 150-400mm f/4.5 @omsystem.bsky.social #birds #birdsong 🪶

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Scottish Wildlife Calendar 2026 Pre order now - shipping starts end of November so that they will arrive before Christmas. I have chosen some of my favourite images from animals photographed in Scotland and put them together for a 2026 Calendar.

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

In Serengeti 2024, standing on the back of the Landrover waiting for the bee eater to fly 📷 OM-1ii, 150-400mm f/4.5, Pro Capture @omsystem.bsky.social 🪶 #birds #omsystem #defythemoment #procapture #serengeti #beeeater #birdsinflight

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A battle ready black grouse on the lek. One of those mornings with dark moody skies and the sun shining through for a brief moment 📷 Dates for April 2026 available on my website. OM-1, 40-150mm f/2.8 @omsystem.bsky.social #omsystem #blackgrouse #lek #birds #birdphotography

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Don’t have many lizards in Scotland, but came across the common lizard on a stone wall last year 📷 OM-1ii, 150-400mm f/4.5 500mm f/9 1/200s ISO 800 #omsystem #defythemoment #lizard #wildlifephotography #scotland

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Food delivery! Just before the juvenile great spotted woodpecker (flagspett) fledge they come up to the nesting hole to be fed. OM-1ii, 150-400mm f/4.5 (1.25x) 325mm, f/4.5, 1/4000, ISO 200 #omsystem #birds 🪶 #wildlife #nature

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Great tit leaving the nest after feeding the young 📷 Pro Capture OM-1ii, 150-400mm (1.25x) 400mm, f/4.5 1/3200s, ISO 5000 #omsystem #birds 🪶 #nature #wildlife

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Wandering through a bluebell forest the other day, I came across a bold wren climbing last years’ bracken 📷 OM-1ii, 150-400mm (1.25x) #omsystem #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #wildlife #nature

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

ISO 16000 and ISO 12800 using DxO PR 5 for denoising 📷 Check out my video on YouTube where I share more images and tips for using the OM System in low light conditions. #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Puffin returning with sandeels 📷 Lunga, 2024 OM-1ii, 150-400mm (1.25x) 400mm, f/4.5, 1/1600s, ISO 800 #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

More images from my urban wildlife photography session in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago. I photographed a feral pigeon with loch in the background. Check out the video and blog post for more images and story of my urban wildlife photography in Edinburgh. #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #wildlife

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

As an added bonus on our workshop in Orkney in March we had some incredible encounters with a large flock of eiders. Plenty of opportunities for flight images and here’s a male coming into land 📷 #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #eider

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Great image from the lek 👏

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A few weeks back I spent some time in Edinburgh with the new OM-3 camera so I decided to make a video on urban wildlife photography. I walked and cycled my way around Edinburgh to capture some of the wildlife it has to offer. #birds 🪶 #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #urbanwildlife

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The sunny spell keeps on going 😁 The other day I grabbed my bike, camera gear, my mat and cycled to a nearby Loch. A fantastic backlit session with oystercatchers, redshanks and pied wagtails. I’ll take another month of this weather please 🤞 OM-1ii 100-400mm II #birds 🪶

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sanderlings are so full of character as they run around on the beach feeding in the intertidal. Had so many great opportunities to photograph these birds last month on our workshop in Orkney. OM-1 150-400mm (1.25x) 378mm, f/4.5, 1/2000s, ISO 2000 #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #omsystem

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In December last year I was trying out the M.Zuiko 100-400mm f/5-6.3 Mark II while visiting family in Fuerteventura. I caught up with the social Barbary ground squirrel on a beach and found a pair of them posing perfectly on some low shrubs. #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Not long until we head up the hill to photograph these incredible birds! Black Grouse Lek 2025 - Perthshire, Scotland #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #wildlife A few paces left if you want to join, see my website for details. OM-1 40-150mm f/2.8 1/3200s, ISO 200

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Tragopan @tragopan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Quality that stands the test of time! ✅ Different generations of our hide Tragopan: Designed to withstand the harshest conditions, our hides are a long-term investment for any wildlife photographer. 📷 Photos taken by @espen13.bsky.social during his wildlife photography workshorps.

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Last week I went out exploring on my bike and found an amazing new location by a small loch. There’s a beaver lodge along the northern edge and I setup a hide on the opposite side. I spent a misty morning in the Monal hide and had an incredible session with a flock of teal. #birds 🪶 #wildlife

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Love this time of year 🌱 The other day I went for a walk in my local woodland, I probably only got 50 metres from my house before I caught a glimpse of a wren flitting through the vegetation and into hollow tree stumps. #birds 🪶 #photography #birdphotography #nature #scotland #wren

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My favourite day from the workshop I co-hosted with Raymond Besant two weeks ago was lying on a sandy beach photographing waders. #birds 🪶 Here, a bar-tailed godwit was flying low over the waves as it came into land on the beach. #birdphotography OM-1 150-400mm f/4.5

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Black grouse on the lek at first light OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm f/4

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

In my latest YouTube video I go for a walk in nature with the new M.Zuiko 100-400 f/5-6.3 II

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Car is packed and I’m ready for a week in Orkney 📷 😃

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Due to a last minute cancellation get a 20% discount and join @orkneymondo and myself in Orkney this March to photograph waders and waves 🌊 Photos 2 and 3 by @orkneymondo Check out my website and get in touch if you’d like to join us 📷

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Trying out the new M.Zuiko 100-400mm II photographing crafted tits in the Cairngorms 😃📷 Video for more insights and photos in description 👇 #birds 🪶 #ukbirds #ukwildlife

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Walking on water 😃 📷 I was lying by the loch one morning when this female goldeneye started her run before take off. The quick subject detection on the OM-1 was very good to have here! #omsystem #birds 🪶 #ukbirds #ukwildlife

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Good morning! 🪶

Three burrowing owlets standing together. The one on the left has his head tilted all the way to the side, the one in the middle is looking off in the distance and the one on the right is looking over his shoulder.

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Sometimes the birds don’t show up. This scene was one of the nicest I’ve ever seen on the loch near my house. Crystal clear water surface, mist, moon and pink skies. I only wish I could have got a swan close by 😅 Next time. I was still amazing to see 📷 #omsystem #photography #landsape

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This makes me look forward to spring 🌱 Birds singing and cold morning walks with my camera 📷 #birds 🪶 #birdphotography #scotland #photography

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This might be one of my favourite red squirrel images. The squirrel is small in the frame and the habitat where it lives is a much larger part of the image 📷 Helps to have some amazing light coming through the trees as well 😃 #omsystem #photography #wildlife #squirrel

Red squirrel sitting on a branch of a large tree

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Maybe the most charismatic bird as it climbs down the trunk of trees. The nuthatch always makes for a good photo 📷 😃 Here, I was lucky to get a bit of rim lighting as well, making the bird really stand out in the frame. #birds 🪶 #omsystem #birdphotography #scotland

Nuthatch climbing down the trunk of a tree

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Love to photograph the little goldcrest 📷 😃 They’re so quick, searching frantically for food up and down the branches of trees and shrubs. #birds 🪶 #omsystem

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Espen Helland @espen13.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

A great tit about to dive into the air 😃 Love playing with #procapture on the #omsystem to create images like these 📷 #bird 🪶 #birdphotography

Silhouette of a great tit about to take flight

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yes it’s a set back . A major one . But we cannot give up . Not now , not ever . In the UK I’m campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship , because for too long these companies have had largely unlimited £££ to greenwash their filthy reputations . No more .

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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship

Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...

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