About me..

Hello and welcome to Mark's Wild Walks.

 

This website combines my love of walking, wildlife and photography. Each walk I go on I take along my camera and share my photos on social media. Social media is great but it doesn't allow me to go into any great depth about the walk and story behind the photograph, hence this website.

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I live in North Staffordshire so my walks are usually in the local area of Staffordshire or South Cheshire, where I was born.

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I suffer with a mental illness and I find the walking, and particularly the photography, helps me to cope with my illness. I'm a big advocate of speaking out about mental illness, too many people keep their struggles inside for fear of being ridiculed, which in todays World is just wrong - I believe that nature & photography can have a positive affect on our mental health & If by me speaking out about this helps someone, or even saves them, then thats a good thing. You may see me talk about my struggles with mental illness in some of my blogs.

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I use Olympus kit (now OM Digital Solutions) and I will note the settings on each photograph.

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I hope you enjoy the site and if you have any comments or questions please email me at markswildwalks@gmail.com

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If you wish to purchase any of my images please see my STORE page for further details. 15% of all sales will go to the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, who do a superb job looking after our wildlife and wild places here in Staffordshire. 

 

Alternatively, if you like what I do then please consider buying me a coffee, (it's like giving me an electronic tip and helps to spur me on to create further content). 

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Many Thanks,

Mark