Who are we?

We're a father & daughter team; Ian and Georgina Strange.

 

'Unorthodox' is probably one of the words my father would most frequently use to describe himself.  

 

If someone asks me where I come from and what I do, their subsequent response is often, 'Wow!  That's a little bit unique!'.  

 

Yes, and unique is good! My father passed in 2019; he is laid to rest at New Island. It was his unstoppable passion and undeniably unorthodox approach that brought New Island from its tumultuous past to when we established a successful conservation project and subsequently, small-scale tourism there. You can read more about the New Island Project under the header on the menu. 

My father established Design In Nature as a name for our combined creative work - a duo with a lifetime's experience of wildlife conservation and natural history, photography, design and publishing.  The Falkland Islands are our speciality and our home.  It is this very special archipelago to which we owe our uniqueness.  

 

  So, what do we do?

Design In Nature, primarily represents nature photography and design - I am available for photographic commissions, website design and publication design as well as producing prints and providing an extensive library of high quality images for a multitude of purposes.  Additionally, I have a life-time of knowledge in conservation and wildlife matters pertaining to the Islands here.  I'm always open to giving advice! 

 

Apart from being a pioneer in conservation & eco-tourism in the Falklands, my father wrote and published nine books on the Islands and their natural history, four of which I had the honour of being involved in, too. 

 

Designing stamps (both illustrated/hand-painted and photographic) for the Falkland Islands postal service was one of Ian's specialities for over 30 years and I also now design my own stamps for the Islands.  

 

Much of my time these days is spent happily setting out on adventures across the world to take photographs & guide as an ornithologist for international expedition vessels such as Lindblad's National Geographic Endurance, Oceanwide Expeditions and Scenic, across the Antarctic region, the Arctic and the Kimberley in Australia. 

I've been lucky enough to work as a guide and photographer with documentary film-making teams, such as BBC's Frozen Planet, National Geographic, Disney+ & NHK Japan.  I worked for over seven years managing New Island as a nature reserve and working with a team of international seabird biologists. For a couple of years I worked as a falconer in the UK! 

 

Probably the biggest thing for our family is our life-long involvement in a very special island nature reserve in the South Atlantic: New Island. It's a big story, so there's a whole page dedicated to it! Please see our New Island Project page to read on...

 

If you'd like to hear more please get in touch via our contact page!