About

Nigel Pepper is an award-winning photographer based in Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. He took an interest in photography from an early age but it was 1982 when he bought his first "serious" camera - an Olympus OM10 + lenses. This served him very well for years, capturing concert images of rock stars such as Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. He now uses Nikon and Canon equipment shooting both digital and conventional slide film.

Birdwatching is one of Nigel's great passions and his favourite genus is the gull family ( known as "seagulls" to most people ). This group of birds has become an obsessional study, with his desire to see and photograph all the world's species of gull resulting in a national birding magazine ( Birdwatching ) writing a five-page article in 2002.

For the last four years he has been following the life of a now famous disabled Herring Gull called "Leggy" which frequents Walton-on-the-Naze seafront. Some images of "Leggy the Herring Gull" can be seen on this website, including "Perfect Landing", a shot which won the 2006 Essex Wildlife Trust Photographic Award.

Nigel loves Walton-on-the-Naze and the surrounding area and many of the pictures on this website are taken within walking distance of his home.