
Leonie Helm
After graduating from Cardiff University with an Master's Degree in Journalism, Media and Communications Leonie developed a love of photography after taking a year out to travel around the world.
While visiting countries such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh and Ukraine with her trusty Nikon, Leonie learned how to capture the beauty of these inspiring places, and her photography has accompanied her various freelance travel features.
As well as travel photography Leonie also has a passion for wildlife photography both in the UK and abroad.
Latest articles by Leonie Helm

Tiger shark uses camera as an expensive snack - manages to capture this incredible shot
By Leonie Helm published
News Divers were feeding tiger sharks in the Bahamas when a curious shark grabbed the camera and swam off with it

View live streaming photos of nesting herons with new state of the art camera system
By Leonie Helm published
News Good news for bird watchers – state of the art camera system has been set up to observe nesting herons in Shropshire, UK

Otters return to the UK! Rare mammals spotted on trail camera in Oxfordshire
By Leonie Helm published
Between the 1950s and the 1970s, otters suffered a catastrophic decline, disappearing from English waterways - and a trail camera has now spotted them on the River Windrush

The United States Space Force releases first-ever photo taken by highly secretive plane in orbit
By Leonie Helm published
news We've never before seen the mysterious spacecraft in orbit, and only the U.S. Air Force knows what its doing up there

Fake AI weather photographs are on the rise – here’s how to tell fact from fiction
By Leonie Helm published
News In the wake of Hurricane Helene, multiple AI generated images were generated and distributed leading to unhelpful conspiracy theories and misinformation

Stunning photographs of the River Thames captured for the Thames Lens competition 2025!
By Leonie Helm published
The beautiful and historic River Thames has been captured in all its glory in the Thames Lens 2025 competition

Celebrate 100 years of the iconic photobooth with a range of pop-up events around the UK organized by Autofoto
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Founder of Autofoto, Rafael Hortalla Vallve, explains the enduring love of the photobooth and how you can get involved with the festivities

Man who grabbed federally-protected wild horse’s face to pose for a selfie could face 6 months in jail
By Leonie Helm published
A local wildlife photographer captured the footage of the man aggressively grabbing the wild horse at Mount Charleston in Nevada

Chat GPT "doesn't like" landscape photographer's photography after he asks for a critique
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Photographer Todd Dominey asked the AI chatbot for its opinions on his landscape photography, and the word "crunchy" came up

A Nikon prototype camera has helped Agence France-Presse verify photographs using the C2PA standard
By Leonie Helm published
The photojournalism industry has taken drastic steps to combat the threat of disinformation due to artificial intelligence-altered photographs

World’s most powerful spy camera sees Chinese scientists redefine global standards for surveillance
By Leonie Helm published
The camera could potentially enable Beijing to scrutinize foreign military satellites – or even identify human faces from a low orbit

Pioneering gallery TJ Boulting – known for supporting female photographers – closes in London after 13 years
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS “There is no breathing space. Going forward I want to free myself of those restrictions," said director Hannah Watson

71-year-old Canadian tourist could face up to 3 years in prison for using drone to photograph Cape Canaveral military base
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS Xiao Guang Pan was originally born in China, and immigrated to Canada in 2001

Woman has both hands bitten off by shark during close up photography opportunity
By Leonie Helm published
NEWS One of the woman’s hands was amputated at the wrist, while the other required amputation from the mid-section of her forearm

Did you know there was an Instagram filter craze as early as the 1800s?
By Leonie Helm published
The UK's National Gallery has revealed that something called a ‘Claude Glass’ was very popular 200 years ago

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and National Geographic astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi compare stunning star trail photographs
By Leonie Helm published
News Pettit made a name for himself as an astrophotographer after sharing his image 'Lightning Bugs' in 2012 showing beautiful star trails

"Stranded" NASA astronaut on International Space Station photographed from Earth in world first
By Leonie Helm published
news NASA astronaut Suni Williams was undertaking a repair on the ISS when she was photographed from Earth by an amateur astrophotographer

The Getty Museum has just purchased its first-ever AI-generated photograph
By Leonie Helm published
News “Would cowboy culture have embraced latex?” said artist Matias Sauter Morera “These speculative questions are at the core of my work”

Pair of very rare black wolves spotted on trail cameras in Poland stun researchers
By Leonie Helm published
A conservation charity was originally planning on studying beavers when they discovered the footage of the rare animals

Photographer sues over copyright infringement over iconic portrait of “King of New York“ rapper The Notorious B.I.G
By Leonie Helm published
news The photo is known as the 'Mona Lisa of hip-hop' and the $6 crown sold for over half a million dollars at auction in 2020

Google Photos now watermarks all AI-generated content using SynthID
By Leonie Helm published
news The watermark will be invisible, and appear in the meta data for all AI-generated images, audio, text or video

The mystery of the 100 year old photographs discovered on a Kodak No 1 camera has been solved!
By Leonie Helm published
Why are all those people gathered in the Cotwold's market town of Chipping Sodbuy? The BBC has now solved the mystery

Scientists develop a compact camera that can identify objects at the speed of light
By Leonie Helm published
Researchers have created a compact camera where the lens is replaced by engineered optics that can identify objects at lightspeed
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