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A Mute Dunking

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A Mute Dunking

Loch Etive, one of the most beautiful sea lochs in the country in my opinion, is a real mixture of wild landscape, great wildlife and rural industry. My initial aim for this month was to photograph the magnificent Mute Swans near Kelly's Pier on Loch Etive.

The technique I used was to get into my dry suit and wade in to get as close as I could to these huge (especially when they are up close) and regal animals. As ever with wildlife surprises are never far away and a slightly confused Whooper Swan was hanging around.

I am convinced it thinks the two Mutes were its parents as it stuck to them the whole time. What a treat to get two such amazing animals in this spectacular landscape.

As ever, my approach was faultless and planned down to the very last minute details…even leaving the top of my drysuit open so I would not sweat too much and could spend a long time with these great animals. Genius, or so I thought, until to get a really interesting angle I laid down in the shallows, filling my drysuit up and ending that days shoot.

Luckily I do not require clients to go in the water, but as past clients can testify, trying to get that great shot in our Flight Masterclass you can get pretty close to the odd rogue wave!

Happy wildlife adventures, have great fun out there with the wildlife and well done to everyone who has entered our facebook monthly challenge, keep them coming!

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Photograph wildlife with a wide angle
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