During a visit to Latrabjarg, on Iceland's Westfjords, you will be face to face with puffins. There are also thousands of fulmars, razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes breeding there. So it is a cacophony of sound! The birds cooperate well; they usually let you get close. A few metres is the rule rather than the exception. Sitting on the ground and waiting is often the best remedy. There is then plenty of opportunity to photograph different poses or take pretty portraits. The colourful bill acts as an eye-catcher here. In winter, by the way, the beak is hardly coloured, which is logical because in this season 'courting ladies' is out of the question. Puffins winter on seas and oceans. When spring arrives, they seek their steep, noisy 'tower flats' again. Sometimes there is still snow then. No point. So the clownish seabirds just start digging the tunnel-like passage to the nest cavity. In such a case, the bill acts as a handy tool.
De fotografie is er bij mij met de paplepel ingegoten. Mijn vader werkte bij de Koninklijke Marine als fotograaf. In het analoge tijdperk ontwikkelden we menig filmpje in de doka en drukten er talloze foto's af. Ik heb een ruime belangstelling voor alles wat met natuur te maken.. Read more…
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