Robert Thomson.

Robert Thompson was born in Northern Ireland where he lived for most of his early life. His interest in natural history began during his childhood explorations of a large parkland estate where he grew up. After initially pursuing a hospital career in the dental profession in London, he returned to Ireland and became involved with environmental recording projects associated with insects, for local conservation and government organisations before developing his natural history photographic career.

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He is an accomplished natural history photographer, author, entomologist and acclaimed specialist in close-up & macro photography and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and the Irish Photographic Federation. He has been involved with a number of high profile natural history recording projects in Ireland and was the national recorder in Ireland for Dragonflies; co-ordinator for the highly successful “DRAGONFLYIRELAND PROJECT”; regional recorder for moths on behalf of Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland and has written numerous books on various natural history topics and nature photography. He has also been a major photographic contributor to many other high profile, natural history publications in Britain and is one of Ireland’s leading nature photographers.

As an active conservationist, he promotes the welfare and preservation of his subjects through his photography and writing. He has a particular interest in dragonflies, butterflies and moths for which he has a specialist scientific knowledge.

His work is widely published in the UK, Ireland and internationally, with numerous photographic credits in a wide variety of book, magazines, calendars and various other media sources through his own library and agencies. He is a frequent writer and contributor to the photographic press and other natural history publications; had several solo exhibitions including the aerial landscape collection from the highly acclaimed “NATURAL HISTORY OF ULSTER”, which ran for five months in the Ulster Museum. He currently has a new exhibition entitled, “RARE & THREATENED BRYOPHYTES OF IRELAND”, which is currently on show at the Ulster Museum’s Belfast Gallery.

He has appeared on television and radio as a photographer, author and entomologist and been a contributor to other television programs relating to natural history and photography. Although now a convert to digital, he was a long time user and advocate of “MEDIUM FORMAT”; his images frequently illustrated Mamiya’s medium format camera systems, both in the UK and Japan. His work has also been featured in Nikon Pro magazine and Nikon UK.

His photographs are represented by a number of agencies including, Natural History Photographic Agency (NHPA), Photoshot, and Nature Picture Library (NPL) in the UK. He also runs his own picture library in Ireland, runs workshops and tours in some of Ireland’s most picturesque locations. With over twenty years experience as a natural history photographer, he has explored many of Ireland’s beauty spots and travelled widely in Europe photographing its flora and fauna with particular attention to its threatened and declining wild orchid populations.