Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Sometimes I get in my head a photo I want, two terns facing off mid air, beaks wide open, well lit nicely spaced apart, not too close to each other not too far away and of course critically sharp. On first look my thoughts were too close and overlapping , no catchlight in the eyes and the top birds wings are out of the focal plane. …then I saw what was happening, the top bird in mid air is biting the wing of the lower bird in the battle! Suddenly I didn’t care about the technical flaws and this is one of my favourite images.
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Sometimes I get in my head a photo I want, two terns facing off mid air, beaks wide open, well lit nicely spaced apart, not too close to each other not too far away and of course critically sharp. On first look my thoughts were too close and overlapping , no catchlight in the eyes and the top birds wings are out of the focal plane. …then I saw what was happening, the top bird in mid air is biting the wing of the lower bird in the battle! Suddenly I didn’t care about the technical flaws and this is one of my favourite images.