2007: 11-14 Years - Highly Commended
Sam Rowley (United Kingdom)
Whooper repose
'I'd spent a day at the London Wetland Centre taking photos of the wildfowl. None of my pictures were any good, but then I spotted a resting semi-captive whooper swan. The last rays of the winter sun lit up its feathers. I crouched down and focussed on them. The swan opened its eyes and I took this shot just as it closed them again.' The whooper swan in the UK is mainly a winter visitor from Iceland, roosting on protected areas of estuaries and wetlands. Drainage of wetland breeding sites, or large-scale habitat loss through hydropower schemes, may reduce their breeding range. Also climate change is improving opportunities for intensive farming in Iceland, which causes conflict between swans and agriculture.
Nikon Coolpix 8800; 1/138 sec at f5.8.
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