Bird Photo Competition 4 2016
Results
Winning Photo
Photographers Comment
I would like to thank the organizers and Mike Atkinson for selecting my picture among so many beautiful bird pictures. It is a great honor to receive this award.
I have been photographing swifts for a while as a find them a great photographic theme. These incredible birds spend almost their whole life in the air. They feed, sleep, mate on the wing. The picture I selected for this competition shows two Pallid Swifts (Apus pallidus) the moment they dive towards a pool of water to capture floating insects. This feeding behavior takes place so fast that it is almost impossible to even see what is going on especially when tens of birds do it simultaneously one after the other. Getting one bird in the frame is normally a success. In this case I was lucky enough to get two birds in the frame.
The picture was taken using a Canon EOS 7D mkII and Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L.
Nikos Fokas
Judges Comment