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Grey seal at Horsey, Norfolk.
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Action Award
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Winner in Animals with Personality Photo Challenge
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adavies
April 16, 2016
Adorable capture! Nicely done! If you haven't done so already, please consider joining my Animal Antics challenge:)
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reflectionsbyrenee
May 26, 2016
Congrats on your win, this is wonderful I am so happy you were there to capture this moment.. bravo
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Location
I took the photograph on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, England.Time
It was about noon on a very cold but very sunny da in February of this year. The choice to go to Horsey was mine as a birthday treat.Lighting
The natural lighting was great, no need for any additional lighting or flash, I was just there at the right time.Equipment
Nikon D90 with a Sigma 50-500mm telephoto lens and a Hoya Polarising filterInspiration
I have a great love of wildlife photography and I had visited Norfolk a few times previously but ne ver seen the seals. I wanted to go when there were seal pups about, so I chose to go there as a birthday treat. I was able to sit on the rocks about 20 feet from the seals who seemed quite happy to have me there photo graphing them. I spent about an hour and a half clicking away. In all I took over 500 images of which I deleted over 400 to get the shots down to the best ones. When I finally got down to the best shots I saved about 2 dozen.Editing
Yes, I cropped it fractionally and slightly increased the saturation by 3 points.In my camera bag
I normally carry my Nikon D90, D60, Sigma 50 -500 telephoto, a Nikon 70-300 telephoto along with Lee grad filters and Manfrotto Monopod. But my favourite piece if equipment is a harness Which allows me to take the weight of my camera and 500 lens on both shoulders.Feedback
Try and find out about breeding habits and location, check nature reserve websites and blogs to find out what has arrived or is living there. Most of all, be patient.