Photocraig wrote:
Try moving from "portraits" of photos of the birds themselves as subjects. Try telling a story about an aspect of their lives. Eating, sleeping gathering food/hunting, making shelter, interacting with chicks, mates and others, over different seasons, and times of the day.
The best wildlife photography comes from the life cycle study of these creatures. Not only does our ecology impact them but they impact their surroundings, also. Tell those stories, getting those stunning faces and marvelously sleek bodies in their natural context. Think Street photography or Social Condition or environmental portraits for inspiration.
Check out the work of Franz Lanting and Art Wolfe among others.
Your conscious conscience is telling you something. Get past those pretty faces and tell us something about the animal and the species.
C
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I've had the opportunity to capture the Puffins fornacating, fishing, landing, departing, flying with a mate, sitting pretty on the cliff, with nesting material in its beak, fighting with gulls and their own. You will not see a single chick. It is housed deeply in the burrows.