Double Page Spread in Natural World

Hampshire Wildlife trust contacted me and asked if I could provide them with a landscape photo of one of their reserves - Noar Hill - for publication in the Natural World.

Natural World is The Wildlife Trusts' UK membership magazine, it is published three times a year, in March, July and November and is mailed to almost 300,000 households in the UK.

Noar Hill is unsurprisingly a hill...with an undulating landscape created over many centuries by successive excavations for chalk, the unusual topography meant the area was unsuitable for modern farming and the land was left for wildlife. The reserve is now considered to be a nationally important haven for wildlife as it supports such a wide range of downland plants and butterflies. I am running an orchid photograpphy course there later in the year if anyone is interested....

Anyway...I a took a shot of the hill (from the edge of a nearby field) and submitted it to the trust consequently it was used as a double page spread in the current (March 09) issue of the magazine. Here is a small version of the magazine layout, if you want a better look you will have to get hold of the magazine!