Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
Canon 600mm f4 for 1/640th @ iso400
Time passes easily when waiting for a Kingfisher to appear, whether it is watching the Coots settle disagreements or a stroll down many memory lanes of photographic opportunities long gone, or for potential opportunities that remain, or just simply compiling wish lists of photographic subjects and in what situations those subjects should be in.
We are regaled with tales of past Africa trips and every so often a folder of 6 x 4 photos will be wheeled out, containing usually a plethora of exotic species, lions and leopards quite often with those animals holding an unfortunate Impala or similar, usually around the neck.
YouTube videos always around photographic species and trips for another mainstay of conversation, along with works by Hemingway, various photographic books such as Light and Dust a great coffee table book and also the likes Jim Corbetts time as a hunter of man eaters.
Just random conversations interspersed with the very rare nowadays arrival of a Kingfisher, adding up the hours probably not that fruitful anymore but…..
For a short video clip of a Kingfisher fishing click here.
Time passes easily when waiting for a Kingfisher to appear, whether it is watching the Coots settle disagreements or a stroll down many memory lanes of photographic opportunities long gone, or for potential opportunities that remain, or just simply compiling wish lists of photographic subjects and in what situations those subjects should be in.
We are regaled with tales of past Africa trips and every so often a folder of 6 x 4 photos will be wheeled out, containing usually a plethora of exotic species, lions and leopards quite often with those animals holding an unfortunate Impala or similar, usually around the neck.
YouTube videos always around photographic species and trips for another mainstay of conversation, along with works by Hemingway, various photographic books such as Light and Dust a great coffee table book and also the likes Jim Corbetts time as a hunter of man eaters.
Just random conversations interspersed with the very rare nowadays arrival of a Kingfisher, adding up the hours probably not that fruitful anymore but…..
For a short video clip of a Kingfisher fishing click here.