One of the good things about travelling slowly, on foot, is that you have time to really see things. Like when we travelled from Portsmouth to Newport on Isle of Wight. It´s a short distance, I´m pretty sure you could do it in less than an hour with the catamaran and a taxi. We decided to make it into a bit more of an adventure, though, and took the ferry. On foot. From the ferrystation we had to walk one or two kilometers to get to the busstop, and as we were treading on, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A gigantic thing of a bird, with long legs.
Sometimes one is just lucky. The heron, which is what it was, landed perfectly angled on top of what I think is a yew-tree, and gave me plenty of time to get my camera out before he decided to swallow his prey. We did feel a bit bad for the duckling, but I suppose that´s just the way it goes.
oh! this is a great series! nice shots, and i'm impressed by the framing and how consistent it is from one shot to the other.
ReplyDeleteyes, poor duckling, but -as you say- that's the way it goes. herons have to eat, too, and aren't they beautiful! we have a couple of types of heron around here, and i've always enjoyed seeing them.
Actually, my camera didn´t reach as far as it looks, but simple photo editing software allowed me to chop off a chunk of redundant blue sky. The resolution of the new camera is pretty amazing, though.
DeleteHerons are the kind of birds you see just about everywhere here, and so you don't really notice them. This is amazing, though not quite as much for the poor duckling!
ReplyDeleteKind of like I don´t have a single photo of reindeer, I suppose. (Except for that day a couple of them turned up at the beach...) It´s so much easier to really see stuff that´s unfamiliar to you.
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