Publications & News

2009

November 09

This photo titled ‘Mountain Top Deer’ is on the front of a Highland Hospice Charity Christmas Card

on sale now to help raise essential funds. 100% of the cost of purchasing these cards (£2.75 per pack of 5)

goes to the charity. The photo was donated free of charge.

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August 09

This greetings card with one of my Mountain Hare photos is being distributed to retailers as of now.

I should have some available for sale from here fairly soon, price should be £1.40 per card plus postage.

If anyone is interested in buying one please email me at cs@chrissharratt.co.uk .

For other cards in this range please visit the publisher, The Heart of a Garden’s website.

Feb 09

A brand new Rucksack Readers walking guide The Cowal Way will be published in May 09,

and I am delighted as ever that three of my photos will feature in the

Habitats and Wildlife section.

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Jan 09

Happy New Year to everyone!

Oh well, so much for keeping the News page up to date during 2008, I failed miserably.

So as you might notice, I have merged the News page with this one, as it is likely 2009

will turn out similar! To be honest not a lot happened in 2008 in the way of my photography.

Limited decent weather, work commitments and a general lack of photo opportunities are my

excuses for lack of attention to all things website. Hopefully 2009 might throw up some new

opportunities and inspiration.

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A most satisfying moment of 2008 was this contact made to me by Suzie Ruggles from

Full Circle Fund a charity based in St Georges Hospital London.

I quote from her email:

“I wonder if I may ask your permission to be able to incorporate some of your exquisite images? We are a charity based at a London hospital where we provide a range of therapies to empower, inspire and support individuals with cancer and leukaemia who are enduring the rigours of chemotherapy, transplant and months of isolation. 

Nature is often cited by our patients as one of the few inspirations which keep them going – literally - as all they can see out of their one sealed window for months at a time is the changing light, changing seasons, the wagtail on the roof nearby, the clouds and sky and light all of it provides a vital sign of life..

One of our current projects is to assemble a CD containing an wide array of nature images which encapsulate the ‘essence’ of nature through each season. We would like to use these images for patients who are in isolation rooms and as a powerpoint projection for our group classes for those who are recovering from treatment as part of patient-centred educational programme in meditation techniques using nature as inspiration.”

This email was a big inspiration to me during 2008 and I am both delighted and humbled

that my pictures can be used to add such meaning to people’s lives. I send all my heartfelt

wishes to everyone involved in this fantastic and innovative charity, and of course to all the

patients who are being cared for by them. If there are other charities who would like to use my photos

for similar purposes please do not hesitate to let me know and I will be more than happy to oblige.

If anyone would like to donate to the Full Circle Fund, I am certain that it will be very much appreciated.

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I must say thank you to Michael Amphlett an Image Specialist from CABI ,

who contacted me in 2008 to point out a few species ID errors that I had made in previous photo galleries.

I am happy if people are brave enough to do this and thus save me from long term embarrassment!

Just to highlight the previous embarrassment, I am able to let everyone know that what I had as a

1. Hedge Sparrow is in fact a female Reed Bunting.

2. Common Redshank is a Purple Sandpiper.

3. Fritillary is, to be more exact, a Dark Green Fritillary.

4. Small White Butterfly is a Green Veined White.

5. Nest in Heather is, to be a lot more precise, an Emperor Moth Cocoon.

Mike, if you or indeed anyone else out there spots any more mistakes this year please let me know!

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2008

Feb 08

Another of my Red Squirrels is on the front cover of a new colour glossy leaflet published for

Grampian Squirrel Group

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In May 2008 one of the new Otter photos and a new Red Squirrel photo will appear in a fabulous new

Rucksack Readers walking guide entitled The Arran Coastal Way by Jacquetta Megarry.

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Save Our Squirrels, the biggest single species conservation project currently in the UK,

are to use some of my photos for leaflets and display panels in a new flagship Red Squirrel reserve

at Whinlatter Forest in Cumbra.

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2007

The Highland Red Squirrel Group used three of my Red Squirrel photos for their postcards.

They also have some more photos displayed on their website.

For every Red Squirrel print I sell, I will donate 20% of the proceeds to this fantastic charity.

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One of my photos was published in the Rucksack Readers book The Kintyre Way by

Sandra Bardwell & Jacquetta Megarry.

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Scotchsnap owned by Lorna McDougall and Isabel Paterson is a brilliant new site which specialises

In selling Scottish handwritten sheet music. The banner at the top of each page on their website is

one of my photos and is of Loch Torridon in the west Highlands. It was taken close to midnight just

after the summer sun had set into the west.

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