thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月4日 22時20分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Mallard ducklings – It’s very easy with wildlife photography to pigeon-hole oneself or to allow one’s approach to become one-dimensional. This is something that I’ve succumbed to in the past and doubtless will again in the future but it is always worth remembering that there is always another angle, another perspective, a new way of looking or seeing. Take my lake sites for example. Upon discovering for myself the visual effectiveness of a water level view; how it so easily distances the background making it easier to throw out-of-focus and how it concentrates one’s focus on the subject, I became a little too enamoured with its qualities. I became something of a photographic snob, dismissing a higher level perspective as inferior, lazy and ultimately less effective. Of course this is absolute hogwash and whilst decrying the higher perspective it was in fact my perspective that was lacking, it was my outlook that was lazy. Just because I’d found something that worked, in my youthful over-confidence I’d become dismissive, arrogant and indeed ignorant. What I now know of course is that every photographic perspective has its merits, every one has its assets and its limitations, it is up to us to use our creativity to find the best image, the image that best reflects our own personal taste and vision. Whilst water level images can be useful for images such as these, concentrating as they do our attention solely on the cuteness of ducklings (that’s their collective term!) the limitations of this perspective is that instead of a nice mirrored reflection we instead get only an abstract impression of their form. Had I wished to include a mirrored reflection then, God forbid I would have had to have used a higher perspective. Top tip of the day. Never stop exploring and searching and try, try, try to remember that there is always a new angle, a new perspective and a new way to document the staggering beauty of our cherished natural history. Please #followme at @andyparkinsonphoto to keep up-to-date with my images @andyparkinsonphoto @thephotosociety @landrover_uk #mallard #ducklings #worklocally #ethicsbeforeimages #p

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