Natural world in motion

Stephen Dalton’s lifelong love of nature led him to an obsession to use photography to freeze animals in motion. He reveals, ‘I’ve been interested in natural history and wildlife since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, and my father was a keen bird photographer. I wasn’t doing anything when I left school, so my parents stuffed me into a job at a company called International Harvester. I ended up doing a bit of photography in the sales promotion department.’

Dalton went on to study at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, and reveals, ‘I didn’t have all the qualifications [to get in] because I left school a bit early owing to a financial crisis in the family. So I took one or two more O levels –I did physics in my first year at polytechnic.’ His understanding of physics and the technical aspects of photography would later