Bird Photo Competition 4 2016
Results
Winning Photo
Photographers Comment
Thank you so much, I Shot It team, for giving my photograph an award of excellence! There are really great bird photographs in this contest, so I am truly honored.
My name is Oren Hasson, from Tel Aviv. Although I was a professional ornithologist, I am more a flower photographer than a bird photographer (that is, besides being a couples' therapist…). As a student, I used to work part time as a photographer. This mallard shot was made more than 20 years ago, in the Austrian Alps. I noticed it swimming rapidly forward in an amazingly clear little pond among the mountains. I was shooting slides, a very unforgiving film, hence exposure and composition should have been nothing less than perfect, and I had very little time to measure the light. Gladly, I was able to make it on time, and had the chance for no more than a single shot before the magic was gone.
I shot this photograph with an old and reliable Ricoh XR-P, one of the first programmed SLRs in the market.
Judges Comment