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One of my all time favourites from 2022 along the Basingstoke Canal at Woking
One of my all time favourites from 2022 along the Basingstoke Canal at Woking
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Feb, 2023Views
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Contender in the Photography Awards
Spring 23 Award
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Behind The Lens
Location
This was my greatest achievement of 2022, I had been tracking a pair of Kingfishers along the Basingstoke Canal in St John's Lye Woking Surrey all summer. They are incredibly fast, elusive and so photogenic if you get an opportunity to "catch them" going about their day. I had been able to get a number of photographs along the mile long stretch of the canal with much patience and persistence. This day proved to be the best..... I walked a bit further than normal and came across their favourite vantage point. The male and the female I discovered often sat on the edge of an old barge at a confluence in the canal, but they also used the trees along the riverbank just here to take turns to dive for fish. Today 11th September 2022 was judgement day! This male was posing for a few seconds and I was there. The female I also photographed a few minutes later sitting on the edge of the old barge.Time
09:02amLighting
Beautiful late summer morning, bright sunshineEquipment
Canon EOS 2000D with a 400mm zoom lens and a blue gradient tint lens attachment.Inspiration
It was one of those things...... another goal to achieve on the "to do list" I'd had good results with Red Kite, numerous different types of Butterfly and Dragonfly. So the Kingfisher was very high on the "to do " list.Editing
Straight off the lens.In my camera bag
Various coloured add on lens covers, an 18-55mm Canon lens, spare batteries, and sometimes a tripod on my back pack.Feedback
To photograph a Kingfisher you must have real patience, and a decent camera that you can set to continually shoot when you press the trigger. Then pat yourself on the back when you achieve that goal.
