And Seal season is on again!!!!!!1111
Its time to return to a very special place, seals are my favorite species of mammals in Europe, I enjoyed photographing them last year and was hoping to be on the ball this time around.
Its brilliant for me, as I only live about 30 miles away and nothing could be better, considering people travel from all over the world to see the breeding colony.
I struggle to describe in words, how beautiful and eerie it is walking towards a 1000+ strong colony of howling seals, on a sandbar 1 mile out in low tide, in dawn twilight, watching everything go dark blue... blue.. purple... red.. It makes hauling my ass out of bed at 4:30am 100% worth it..
I'll be working on the seals each weekend until December now, (light and weather permitting) so i'll try not to annoy everyone with them like I did last year!
All images taken with following:
1D MkIII
1DS MkIII
300mm F2.8 L IS
600mm F4 L IS
Processed in LR/PS minimal adjustment and cropping for web.
Saturday's images:
Sand + £12ks worth of camera/lens/tripod/wimbery = much concern..
However, my makeshift binbags and tape (Thanks online camera shop for not sending the nice camo sportshield I ordered!!) worked fine, everything is spotless now... ... thanks god for compressed air.
Todays images:
Had a cracking afternoon, based on spamming metoffice, couldn't resist when some cloud started clearing, high tide allowed 2 hours shooting time so no time to mess around, had the entire beach and 700+ seals to myself is gorgeous light.
For those of you wondering where seals come from :]
"They said its down here.... somewhere.. aha got it!!!11@"
"wut?"
I've seen some cute behavior last year, but i've never seen a bull licking the cow like she's a lollipop!
Until next time!
Its time to return to a very special place, seals are my favorite species of mammals in Europe, I enjoyed photographing them last year and was hoping to be on the ball this time around.
Its brilliant for me, as I only live about 30 miles away and nothing could be better, considering people travel from all over the world to see the breeding colony.
I struggle to describe in words, how beautiful and eerie it is walking towards a 1000+ strong colony of howling seals, on a sandbar 1 mile out in low tide, in dawn twilight, watching everything go dark blue... blue.. purple... red.. It makes hauling my ass out of bed at 4:30am 100% worth it..
I'll be working on the seals each weekend until December now, (light and weather permitting) so i'll try not to annoy everyone with them like I did last year!
All images taken with following:
1D MkIII
1DS MkIII
300mm F2.8 L IS
600mm F4 L IS
Processed in LR/PS minimal adjustment and cropping for web.
Saturday's images:
Sand + £12ks worth of camera/lens/tripod/wimbery = much concern..
However, my makeshift binbags and tape (Thanks online camera shop for not sending the nice camo sportshield I ordered!!) worked fine, everything is spotless now... ... thanks god for compressed air.
Todays images:
Had a cracking afternoon, based on spamming metoffice, couldn't resist when some cloud started clearing, high tide allowed 2 hours shooting time so no time to mess around, had the entire beach and 700+ seals to myself is gorgeous light.
For those of you wondering where seals come from :]
"They said its down here.... somewhere.. aha got it!!!11@"
"wut?"
I've seen some cute behavior last year, but i've never seen a bull licking the cow like she's a lollipop!
Until next time!
