Chris White

The author

Chris White

An amateur environmentalist and prolific writer.

Known for writing science fiction he has diverted his talents to writing three factual books about the three species that he has studied over the years and has become very passionate about.

He is also keen to make textbooks accessible, affordable, and in electronic format.

Chris White

“I’ve been writing now since about 2010, but mainly fiction and science fiction stories. I've also recently written three fact-based educational books about Swifts, Barbary Macaques, and Homo Sapiens.

My first project was the Judges Quadrilogy. Four science fiction books following a growing band of people who try to make the world a better place, but end up struggling to save the planet, and themselves.

My next project is to bring back the Ancient Gods and build an adventure in a contemporary setting.

The Semi Scientific Introduction to a species series contains a lot of pictures.

Photography has always been a passion of mine, and the fast swifts are definitely a challenge to photograph. The secret is to use manual focusing, a fast shutter speed, practice panning, and film in RAW format.

RAW captures an enormous amount of information and you can draw this out later, or you will just end up with lots of silhouettes. (I can thank my nephew Fabio for showing me this) I use a Canon 600D, with a Canon 55-250mm stabilised zoom lens.

The apes are a lot easier, and can be photographed perfectly with a phone, but don’t get too close, and don’t stick your phone in their face! The best lens for the apes is probably a short telephoto 24-105mm for the ease of handling, but you need to stay within your budget, so don’t go out of your way to specifically buy equipment for this project.

Don’t use a flash either! No-one likes a stranger taking flash photography in your face. It’s rude and hostile.

I hope you enjoy reading these books, and all I ask is if you can help to save an animal, or a species, or something near to where you live, please make that tiny contribution, and help to change the world for the better. I mean… how hard can it be?"