Just
occasionally I manage to visualise a picture long before I get the chance to
take it and then actually get to go and do it.
This picture falls into that category.
I had a
mental picture of a group of birds in silhouette flying across a glacier. The opportunity was on the west coast of Svalbard where we had gone to
watch a colony of little auks.
Little auks build their nests underground, and
every now and again a group would race out from under rocks and fly off round
the bay, before coming back into the rocks to wait for the next swarm.
Eventually
I found a suitable perch, close to the colony, where the usual flight around
the bay would lead the birds across a suitably icey backdrop. After that it was just a matter of sitting
wait for the sunlight to strike the glacier as the birds was coming back into
the colony, and then pressing the shutter.
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