I took these on Tuesday morning at Falmer Pond. Yes, I had to be up that way in the morning so it was a chance to look around the pond again. The rats are long gone from what I could see (plenty of ‘do not feed rats’ signs all over the place), but the ducks and geese were doing fine. I photographed a few for old times sake, but my favourite sequence was of some of the jackdaws who were busy gathering in nest material and taking it back to the church roof. These three shots are taken as the jackdaw was coming in to land, and putting on the brakes.
They have all been converted to black and white to emphasize the form over the detail, but hopefully I’ve left just enough tone in the feathers to keep them lively.
I’ve had a second encounter with the garden badger. He really doesn’t seem to mind me at all, and I’m looking forward to another good year with them. Here’s one from last night as a taster (again converted to black and white).
Camera note: jackdaw photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. The badger was photographed with the EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.
Aurora Stone
24 Mar 2016The Jackdaw sequence is wonderful. Glad your badger is back.
Words
29 Mar 2016Aurora, thanks! It was nice to try something different with the jackdaws.
Darko
24 Mar 2016Those silhouettes reminded me on a book cover I had back in Belgrade, Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, I think.
Words
29 Mar 2016Darko, I would love to try these kind of shots with ravens. Have you seen this (voted best photography book of the past 25 years) Masahisa Fukase’s Ravens?
Darko
30 Mar 2016No, I didn’t but I did some research and found some interesting photographs he did!
http://res.cloudinary.com/artlogic/w_1200,h_900,c_limit/ws-michaelhoppen/usr/images/artworks/main_image/10108/ravens020-s-.jpg
Words
3 Apr 2016Fukase’s work is very interesting and I like that he uses photography as metaphor over representation.
derwandersmann
25 Mar 2016Elegant, Paul!
Words
29 Mar 2016Thanks dW!