In late 2011, Ken joined The Deeside Naturalists, near Flint, North Wales, which has a membership only access to some great hides overlooking the Dee marshes. These should be good for spring migration shots.

Also, Ken is looking forward to photographing the wildlife on the new Burton RSPB reserve. It will take some time for the water levels to increase to give closer views of the birds, but he sees great prospects at this site.

In May 2012 Ken is hoping to tour Northern Spain in his motorhome, recording the fauna and flora in this green wonderful area of Spain.

September was the month of the Cunard Cruise Ships, with two great iconic liners visiting Liverpool. The first one was the Queen Elizabeth, then a week later his favourite the Queen May 2. Stunning images were taken by Ken with the enigmatic Liverpool waterfront as a glorious backcloth. Ken even managed an image with the seasonal harvest moon glowing orange for good measure.

This month has been a blur. He was very busy supplying his kelimages products to his many outlets in Liverpool.

Early June he paid several visits to his local RSPB reserve, Marshside. It turned out to be a very productive location. He achieved some great images of Avocets, Black-Tailed Godwits.

In May Ken embarked on a tour to one of his favourite places in Snowdonia. The tour coincided with BBC Springwatch, who used Ynys-hir ( RSPB) as its base. Ken’s base was in Aberdovey, which is central to the whole of the area. He achieved some great images on this trip, ie, wildlife, scenic landscapes etc. Ken will be putting pen to paper and writing an article for the Practical Motorhome.

Ken was commissioned to take images of aquatic flies at Tal-y-Llyn, but this turned out to be much more difficult than he expected it to be.

Ken has been commissioned to photograph aquatic flies by a fishery in Snowdonia and is hoping that this assignment will coincide with “Springwatch” in the same month. He hopes to stay in this area and write a illustrated article for the Practical Motorhome, Ken plans a 10 day location stay in this wonderful place.

Well Ken never made Yellowstone or Norway, due to a much needed new branded product launch in 2010. He introduced three collections of fridge magnets Nature, Liverpool and the Wirral, he also introduced high end Fine Bone China Mugs, which are now selling in his many retail outlets throughout the UK. These products will also be for sale very soon on his website. All Ken's products are manufactured in the UK.

All of these products have taken a toll on his time, although he did manage a two week tour in his motorhome with his long standing photographic friend, Robert and called it Sutherland coast to coast, with landscapes and wildlife in abundance. To find out more about this magnificent tour you can read the story in the June 2011 edition of Practical Motorhome.

Kenneth Lewis at work on the beach

Kenneth Lewis's Motorhome

Last year Ken found a great location photographing terns fishing for sand eels at the Cemlyn Lagoons, Anglesey. He is taking one to one bookings at this location in June and July 2011. The photographic opportunity his students will be using cutting edge high speed photography to a achieve animated images, you can see some of Kens new fishing Tern pictures in the British Collection Gallery.

Ken plans with his wife, Mrs E, to take the motorhome to Norway.

Ken and his photographic friend, Robert, plan to take a trip to Yellowstone Park in the fall, along with wildlife photographer Chris Wallace and his wife, Polly.

Of course, there will be plenty of long weekends away in Great Britain.

As Ken puts together the details for 2009 in November, which he usually does annually, he looks back, having had a great year working with local businesses, which afforded him some great opportunities. The Elddis motorhome was traded in (thank goodness) for a Hymer 514 Classic, which is much more comfortable and makes his many tours of these great British Islands even more pleasurable.

May - Ken headed for the Derbyshire Dales and he found a little nugget in the guise of The Chestnut Centre, Chapel en le Frith. They have a pair of young Giant Otters, male and female, in a purpose built pond. They have given Ken some great photo opportunities using cutting edge technology of the Canon EOS system. Well worth a visit in the spring, summer and autumn, perhaps with Ken on a One to One.

June - a 2 weeks tour using the new motorhome as his mode of transport and accommodation, with Mrs E. They visited Dorset, Devon and Cornwall and yes, they were lucky, the weather was set fair for this tour. The highlight photographically was a day photographing Sandwich Terns on the shingle bank in Poole Harbour. They also visited The Swannery, just outside Weymouth. This is also a great photo opportunity.

August/September - Ken took local images of the Wirral and of course, the wonderful city of Liverpool. Ken has several new images taken in 2009, one being the panorama of the Liverpool waterfront, the other, the new Pier Head with the new canal system in the foreground.

October - saw Ken illustrating an article in a well known national Sunday newspaper with his giant otter images. He was also interviewed by Colin Sykes for BBC One news programme, North West Tonight, just for good measure. As they say he had his 15 seconds of fame at last.

November - Ken has designed 2010 calendars of Liverpool and the Wirral which are selling well in all of his many outlets.