I'm Will Burrard-Lucas, a wildlife photographer. Over the years, I've often found myself needing software that didn't quite exist: tools to make a field workflow more reliable, a repetitive task less painful, or a photographic process easier to repeat and refine. Sometimes that has meant building something small for myself. Sometimes those experiments have grown into tools that may be useful to other photographers too.
This site is where I share those tools, along with notes on photography, technology, fieldwork, workflow design and the changing role of AI in creative work.
Why FrontierTwo exists
My photography portfolio at willbl.com is for the finished work: the photographs, projects and stories.
Camtraptions is for the physical tools of camera trapping: the sensors, housings, flashes and other equipment that make remote photography possible.
FrontierTwo is about the digital side of the process — the systems, experiments and specialist software tools that support the work behind the images.
Some of the tools here are highly specific. Others are useful to a much broader range of photographers. Rather than describe them all here, I keep the current list in the tool catalogue, where new releases and updates can be added over time.
Photography, technology and AI
I see technology as part of the craft of photography. Cameras, camera traps, software, automation and now AI all change what is possible — not by replacing the photographer, but by removing friction, extending reach and making certain kinds of work more achievable and efficient.
AI is a complicated subject for photography. It is a genuine threat in some areas, especially when used to generate images that compete with or confuse real photographic work. That is not how I use it.
My interest is in AI as a practical assistant: helping to organise ideas, streamline workflows, analyse information, build bespoke tools, process notes and reduce the repetitive admin that surrounds creative work. Used well, it can help photographers become more productive and more ambitious — increasing both the quality and quantity of what we are able to produce, without taking the photograph out of photography.
FrontierTwo is partly an exploration of that opportunity: how photographers can use emerging technology thoughtfully, without losing sight of the fieldwork, judgement, patience and craft that still sit at the centre of the work.
What you'll find here
You'll find a growing catalogue of tools for photographers, plus occasional notes on the thinking behind them: what problem they solve, how they fit into a real workflow, and what I'm learning while building and using them.
The aim is not to create software for its own sake. It is to make focused, useful things that solve real problems — then share the ones that prove themselves.
For current tools, start with the catalogue. For new releases, updates and field notes, subscribe to the Dispatch.