Well, well, well, and goodness me, what do we have here?
Is it another Wildlife Photographer of the Year thread—this time for 2012?
I do believe it is!
Note this is a different photographer.
suddenly penguins
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That's it for today, good folks! There will be more from 2012—at a later date!
Thanks, OP.
>>6377310
Thank you, this was an excellent collection.
I say, I say. I have half an hour spare, so...!
Grand title winner for 2012.
Painting with snow
The sky above Brock Valley in Lancashire, England, suddenly darkened, and the snow began to fall heavily. Glenn was thrilled. He’d grown up in Africa, and snowfall this thick was a complete novelty. As the soft, heavy flakes whispered through the oak trees, he was so distracted that he had trouble concentrating on the technicalities of photography. ‘I was captivated by the feeling of solitude, with my visibility so limited and the silence so surreal,’ he says. The steep sides of the ravine seemed to channel the snow into a concentrated sheet, and Glenn put aside all thought of photographing the roe deer he was tracking and set about depicting both the sense of the density of the snow and the beauty of the effect. ‘I needed a good depth of field to keep much of the tree in focus but also to choose my focal point carefully, so some of the snow was blurred to give motion and some static to appear as flakes.’ With that in mind, Glenn set about ‘painting the magical scene’.
Sands of time
Watching one set of spicules after another come into focus under the microscope was, says David, ‘like drifting through a magical galaxy’. Spicules are the calcareous skeletal remains of tiny, soft-bodied marine invertebrates such as sea fans and sea whips (corals), sea cucumbers and sponges. These spicules, no bigger than grains of salt, accumulate on the seabed and wash up as sand, often turning beaches gleaming white. David attached his camera to a microscope to photograph an old sample on a Victorian slide. ‘I wanted an image that would reveal the diversity and architectural beauty of the remains.’ The technical challenge was to get a perfect plane of focus. ‘I spent ages making tiny adjustments, to get the right 3D effect,’ he explains.
That's it for the adults of 2012, and that's all from me today. Children's photos—next time!
>>6382506
Nice thread. Waiting for the next one
>>6382506
>Children's photos—next time!
i'm worried about op
>>6382506
great stuff, thanks for sharing
