Aerial Ballet

[Lesley Jones]

I suppose an alternative title might be Dancing with Clouds.

We had to take the old Land Rover down to Eastbourne for servicing and I asked if we could spend a couple of hours on the sea front. You have no idea how hard we both had to work this weekend to make that little gap. Yesterday we did all the zoo, rather than inside on Saturday and outside on Sunday. I hate to admit that I've had a thumping headache all day because of that and it was more of an ordeal than a break. Until I started taking photographs, that is.

I've never tried anything like this before. Only having the one lens I thought the seagulls would be too far away. Chips work better than any telephoto lens and this was taken with the zoom at 16mm

 

[Pete Askew]

Wonderful, simply wonderful and certainly worth sacrificing a few chips for!!

 

[Pete Sykes]

That, Lesley ............. Is an absolutely stunning shot.

Pete

 

[Dave Green]

Nice budgie!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Stunning - at 16mm you must have nearly had him landing on your head!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Amazing clarity. Beautiful shot. Incredible.

 

[Brian Moore]

What a stunner! Lovely, Lesley.

 

[Glen Roberts]

Nice one Lesley, I like it.

I still haven't had a go at shooting gulls with a small lens, must try harder!!!

 

[Lesley Jones]

Cheers gents! This one was close, but I have some still to process that were closer still. My chip assistant kept backing off because he didn't like being bombarded by gulls - I had to keep ordering him to come back!