Reginald Badham Lodge

Reginald Badham Lodge was an English ornithologist, photographer, and painter of birds. In 1895 he received from the Royal Photographic Society the first medal ever presented for nature photography, for a photograph of a Northern lapwing incubating its eggs. Eric Hosking and Harold Lowes stated their belief that this was the first photograph of a wild bird.
His brother was bird illustrator and falconry expert George Edward Lodge. Their father was Samuel Lodge, a canon of Lincoln Cathedral and rector of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire.
Lodge was friends with Oliver G. Pike and they made trips together.

Work

In 1903 he published Pictures of Bird Life: On Woodland Meadow, Mountain and Marsh, "with numerous colour illustrations from photographs from life by the author".
His works are among the National [Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty|National Trust Collections] at member museums:One hundred photographs of bird life is in the library of Coleton Fishacre, DevonBird-hunting through wild Europe is in the library of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
The Dick Institute holds several of his bird paintings.