July '08
Welcome to the July news letter and our new look website. I hope you enjoy looking around the new galleries and pages.

Announcements:

Loch Visons wins another award
Best economic and community impact tourism award - top prize click here to read more

Follow on Experience
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out are now available, spaces are going so please book early.

Guests
Pictures from one day experiences - 10 May:3 June '08

Guests from our Follow ons
Sensational images from our Follow On and Extended Wildlife experience are available for viewing now. click here

Loch Visions launches Online ordering of Gift Vouchers - click here to buy vouchers online

Stories and pictures: A Surprising Tern of events

Sometimes you plan and plan for shots, and sometime more rarely they just happen. This was a little of both. I had spent an afternoon doing some reconnaissance of a tern colony, staying out of camera range and just observing the behaviour of the animals. I wanted to see if it would be possible to get clients within camera range without disturbing the breeding colony. The colony was on an island just of the mainland, but the terns flight path did occasionally come over a spot where a person could sit without disturbing the birds.

The weather was pretty crummy so once I had learnt what I needed, I meandered back to my van. Round the corner of the bay I stumbled across an awesome spectacle. At low tide a huge number of terns were feeding right by the waters edge, diving in the water and catching wee fish.

I approached and was completely ignored by the birds, which is certainly not the reaction you get when near the breeding colony. I spent a glorious couple of hours photographing them, the weather was no good so I experimented with some slow shutter speed and more abstract work.

While running the flight masterclass, I was so excited about my discovery. All day I was telling them at low tide they were in for such a treat, something that would blow their minds, telling them they were bound to get some incredible pictures of flight, explaining how easy it would all be. On and on I went about it so inevitably when the tide finally shifted of course note a hint of a feather, and since that one time I have never seen them fish there again.

Were the clients disappointed? Thankfully not as nature will always reward patience and because we had waited there for so long in anticipation of the feeding frenzy at low tide, we witnessed an awesome spectacle, a peregrine falcon smashing into the tern colony at light speed from the local cliffs. Incredible! Even more surprising was the fact that someone did get a picture of it, which can be seen in this months guest gallery.

Till next month.

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