These three bumbling puffins, photographed in Iceland, were captured at sunset. Here they fly off and on to the water to catch fish, which they consume on land.
A dying species, but found in Iceland in large colonies at the water's edge.
The shadows on the birds show that the sun was low in the sky and the cold colours of the air and the animals show the climate in which they live.
The composition and depth of field lead your eyes from bottom right to top left: the puffin actively seeking eye contact with the viewer as it seems to stumble through the air. Also striking are the animals' orange markings and feet.
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Where silence lives
and control fades,
true seeing begins.
Between motion and stillness,
between flight and presence,
images emerge
that don't demand
but invite.
A bird caught in backlight,
a deer dissolving into morning mist,
a landscape just shy of stillness.
What is wild isn'tamed -
only witnessed,
acknowledged,
preserved.
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