Hi there,
Welcome to the Wildlife Art and Wildlife Films of Ben Waddams. I've been filming, photographing, studying and painting the natural world from an early age.
From the time I could walk, I was a keen naturalist, this partly due to the fact that I grew up in North America, first in Texas and then in Conneticut, where bears and snapping turtles were a frequent occurance. After moving back to Buckinghamshire, England, I became old enough to travel to places farther and farther from home. Such adventures took me to Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania, where I could indulge my passion for capturing animals on film, as well as on canvas. I also made visits to Central American countries such as the Mexican Yucutan, Belize and Guatemala where treking through rainforest and along rivers in this tropical paradise, enabled me to search for local wildlife at the same time.
Recently I found myself on the move again, this time to California, settling down in the small suburb of Clayton, fringed by the Diablo Mountain range and state parks, a haven for any amateur naturalist out there! Rattlesnakes, Sea Otters and Condors became some of my new passions and I am currently dividing my time between the US and here, in Buckinghamshire, where a beautiful array of Slow Worms, Adders, Grass Snakes and other wildlife, await the willing and observant whilst keeping me busy with the camera and canvas.
Thank you,
Ben
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