Mike Cowdrey

Mike started his interest in Photography when he joined Nottingham and Notts Society 12 years ago. He has been exhibiting in National and International Exhibitions for the last 11 years, and has achieved some success, including several gold medals, especially in the Far East.

Mike is particularly interested in photographing birds in flight, mainly at his local Nature Reserve, in Attenborough. He does a lot of slide sandwiching, copying the resulting images via his Olympus bellows and copying unit. He creates backgrounds for his sandwiches using forest scenes and water reflections. It was once said of one of his slides that it contained more sandwiches than a picnic!     

Mike recently obtained Master of Photographic Alliance of Great Britain with a panel of 20 slides, and he is working towards Galaxy 2 distinction with the Photographic Society of America.