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
NESTING GANNETS
Ireland's Great Saltee Island is one of the most accessible gannet colonies, with the advantage that it can be visited until late evening. I made this image just after sunset with a wide angle lens to fill the foreground with gannets and include the gorgeous tones of the sky. Light was fading fast so I used fill-in flash to illuminate the nearest gannets and a careful balance between shutter speed and aperture to achieve depth of field, whilst keeping the gannets in flight acceptably sharp.
F/8, 1/50th second, ISO 400
Accepted: Welsh 2012, Tulle (France) 2014, Daguerre (France) 2014
