Well another one bits the dust - no pun intended. I have just submitted my first collection for an exhibition - the RPS Nature Group annual exhibition. I have no idea whether I will be successful- but nothing ventured nothing gained. If you want to see the full submission then click here.
Following on from what I wrote a couple of days about getting carried away this photograph is a classical case. I was on a very bumpy boat taking this photograph - blasting away think about what I wanted the gull to do to make it just that bit better when it struck me what I had captured. This was the death of one animal for another's survival. I stopped once I realised this - however, most of the people in the boat kept taking photographs and videoing the event.
It is all part of the unemotional aspect of nature - it really is vicious. Yet within that viciousness there is also great beauty and tragedy. One final thought - the Herring gull is now subject to a red alert, its population is declining - so by taking this young kittiwake it is helping to support a suffering breed.
