Welcome to the ‘KowaPower Digiscoping & Photography Gallery’. This site aims to act as a showcase and information resource on Digiscoping together with an expanding collection of images acquired by means of more traditional, albeit digital, SLRs. In the favorites gallery are portrayed examples of digiscoped images produced by David H Hatton over the past seven years. I also include a gallery of photos of the Northern Bottlenose Whale rescue attempt in the Thames, a May trip to Finland, an autumn trip to Shetland and the stunning wildlife and scenery of a trip to the high Arctic and North Spitsbergen.

Digiscoping is the art of acquiring digital photographic images by attaching a digital camera (usually a compact camera such as a Nikon Coolpix) to the eyepiece of a telescope. By such means, images of remarkable magnification can be achieved, which is especially useful for wildlife photography. Not all telescopes are suitable for digiscoping, but, among those that are, the larger Kowa telescopes are particularly fine. They can produce end-results rivalling those acquired by much more expensive set-ups, even occasionally pro-dSLRs. For further information on the art of digiscoping, please click the 'Technique' tab on this page or browse the information available at the web sites included in the ‘Web Links’ section. Successful digiscoping is not particularly easy, but patience and practice, together with application of traditional photography skills, can reap rewards.

I hope you like this selection of images. Each is available as a high-quality print by contacting me by email from the 'Contacts' link. Enjoy!

Last updated: 1 June 2008. All images copyright David H. Hatton. Contact me to request permission to reuse any image in any media.