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Judges Comment

Good quality bird images are now so commonplace that to stand out requires more creativity than technical skill. This bizarre wide-angle image of a pelican feeding frenzy taken from water level adds a whole new meaning to 'fisheye photography'.

Photographers Comment

Thank you very much for the winning prize! Before setting of to Lake Kerkini in Northern Greece, I planned ahead the way I would photograph Dalmatian Pelicans, so I designed a whole system incorporating an underwater camera housing and specially positioned lights and flashes, and it was a great thrill to find that the contraption worked the way I planned. I took a lot, I mean a lot of pictures during the five days I spent there but I took the best ones on the very last day.
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