Niall Bell

I'm Niall, a nature photographer and environmentalist from the UK, based in British Columbia, Canada. I spend my time documenting the wildlife and wild places of my surroundings and sharing the beauty of the natural world through photography and writing.

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niallbell.com is the digital home of my photography, videography, and writing. I built and maintain the website myself in my spare time with the hope of sharing inspiring photographs and interesting writing.

In an era of social media and AI, human visitors to independent websites are becoming increasingly rare, so thank you for being here.

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I worry that as AI crawlers scrape the web and funnel content into chatbots, the motivation to maintain sites like this will slowly fade away. I've built measures into this site to block those crawlers, because the work I put in here was never meant to train a model. I don't rely on ad revenue, and I don't even serve ads, but many websites do. Without real human visitors, those sites don't get paid, and when they don't get paid, they're forced to find other ways to make money, which puts strain authentic writing. If these values resonate with you, consider browsing the web a little more directly, and let the surfing be yours. Thank you.

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Astrophotography
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Astrophotography
Astrophotography is a photographic discipline that involves taking highly detailed images of objects in the night sky. This can be of things as close as the Moon, to planets, to distant galaxies millions of light-years away.
Bengal Tiger
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Bengal Tiger
The Bengal Tiger is the true king of the jungle. I've been obsessed with tigers since first time I photographed a captive Amur tiger at my local wildlife park.
British Birds
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British Birds
A collection of Britains frequently seen birds.

Recent writing

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niallbell.com Updates
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niallbell.com Updates
After several years of working with the Digital Garden Plugin for Obsidian, I decided I needed to break free of the constrains baked into that plugin (not a bad thing!). Here is what I'm up to!
Ethical Wildlife Photography: Where I Stand
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Ethical Wildlife Photography: Where I Stand
I've been circling this topic for a few years now, writing about bits of it here and there, commercial hides in one post, ethical captioning in another. But I think it's time to pull it all together, because the more I sit with it, the more I realise these aren't separate issues. They're two symptoms of the same disease.
Lessons From a Fungi Part 1
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Lessons From a Fungi Part 1
I first started dabbling in mycology in 2020, and became more serious a year or so later when I chose to write my dissertation about fungi. Jumping ahead nearly five years and I can honestly say that I have learned many lessons from these overlooked magicians of the natural world.

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Browse my galleries and look for the icons indicating which photographs are available for print. Email me with the name of the photograph I'll get back to you with pricing, available sizes, and the relevant conservation charity for that photograph.

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