AWARDS: ENGLAND / WILTSHIRE / LAKE DISTRICT / WALES / SCOTLAND / COAST OF S.W. ENGLAND / COAST / STORMS / LAKES & MOUNTAINS / WINTER LANDSCAPES / DESERTS / ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY / BRITISH BIRDS 1 / BRITISH BIRDS 2 / BRITISH MAMMALS / BRITISH INSECTS / WORLD BIRDS / WORLD MAMMALS / NATURE
ARCTIC TERN DIVE-BOMBING
Early summer visitors to the Farne Islands are frequently dive-bombed by territorial arctic terns. I stood in an area being vigorously defended, put a protective filter on my wide-angle lens and pointed it skywards, having manually pre-set both focus and exposure. Each time a tern zoomed in to peck my lens, I fired a rapid burst of shots until the camera buffer was full. The result was an unusual close-up perspective on a tern in flight.
F/9, 1/2,000th second, ISO 320
Accepted: Oxford 2013, Bardaf (Slovakia) 2014
