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
CHILEAN FLAMINGOES
The bird reserve of Laguna Nimez is adjacent to the huge Lago Argentino in Argentinean Patagonia. It was an overcast New Year’s Day, which suited this abstraction of Chilean flamingoes (Phoenicopterus chilensis), 17 asleep and one awake. To get sufficient separation between the birds I ascended a ladder to the top of a bird hide from where I was able to use a 400mm lens plus 1.4x teleconverter.
F/11, 1/1,000th second, ISO 800
Accepted: Cheltenham 2024
