Kingfishers caught in the act: The amazing hunting pictures that took TWO YEARS to capture. Philphat Suwanmon, an amateur Thai photographer, photographed rare blue-eared kingfishers fishing in a jungleHad to build a hide to get the pictures and the birds are so rare experts are amazed he managed to take them at all By Emma Innes Published: 09:56 GMT, 11 April 2013 | Updated: 10:29 GMT, 11 April 2013 An amateur photographer has captured stunningly beautiful images of one of nature's finest fishermen at work.
Phiphat Suwanmon, an amateur Thai photographer, spent two years photographing the blue-eared kingfisher in an attempt to document its extraordinary feeding habits. His striking photographs show a family of kingfishers diving into water to hunt. Phiphat Suwanmon, an amateur Thai photographer, spent two years photographing the blue-eared kingfisher in an attempt to document its extraordinary feeding habits The blue-eared kingfisher is found in Asia - across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia in countries including Nepal, India, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Thailand. The coolest bird around! Kingfisher dives through ice to catch fish from frozen pond. Fearless kingfisher plunges into icy waters to get its quarryMagnificent bird spends just seconds under the iceAmazingly, a robin tries to copy the kingfisher's tactics By Sam Webb Published: 13:13 GMT, 27 January 2013 | Updated: 13:21 GMT, 27 January 2013 This kingfisher wasn't afraid of the freezing water as it dived through the ice to catch a fish for its dinner.
The bird flapped its wings and hovered over the gap in the ice - and waited patiently before swooping in for the fish. It could only spend a few seconds underneath the ice before it had to get out of the freezing water in La Brenne, France. Dive dive dive! The bird hovered over the gap in the ice before swooping in for its prey And it didn't come back empty handed as it happily flew away with a fresh fish. The actions of the kingfisher even inspired a robin, who had been watching and studying its actions, before trying a bit of fishing of its own. 'We saw this scene only once during the time we were there.' Dancing on ice: Snowy owl left with a big smile on his face as practises his moves. By Sarah Johnson Published: 20:14 GMT, 16 December 2012 | Updated: 20:16 GMT, 16 December 2012 This owl looks like it's taking advantage of the cold weather to practise its skating moves on the ice.
The snowy owl was captured on camera with one leg outstretched behind it while it balanced on one claw. But, the beautiful bird may just have been stretching after it woke up to freezing temperatures of -20C in Montreal, Canada. This bird's got moves: This snowy oil was pictured stretching out its left leg while he balanced on the other one Dancing on ice: Wildlife photographer Yves Adams followed the bird all day before he took these pictures The snowy owl has unmistakable white plumage that echoes its Arctic origins.Young owls get whiter as they get older. Females are darker than males with dusky spotting and never become totally white. Photo by cangeomag. Ghosts in the mist: Deadly great grey owls silently hunt for their prey in snowy Lapland. Great Grey Owls - known as the phantom of the north - can be found in northern America and Europe By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 20:33 GMT, 7 December 2012 | Updated: 09:19 GMT, 8 December 2012 These eerie images show the elusive Great Grey Owl - known as the phantom of the north - gliding through snowy Lapland in hunt of prey.
The Great Grey Owls are shown flying ghost-like through the wintry land, invariably staring down the camera lens with their luminous yellow eyes. Wildlife photographer Jules Cox annually visits Lapland in the winter time hoping to shoot the magnificent owls but had not yet had any luck. Photographing Birds, Birding Basics. The images take your breath away—birds frozen in flight or with feathers fanned for a graceful mating dance.
The images are captured by photographers from all corners of the world. You may never make it to Zanzibar on a shoot for National Geographic, but even in your own backyard, you can up the “wow” factor in your bird photography. This is not an exhaustive discussion of bird photography, or a debate on the merits of digital vs. film or specific brands of equipment. But we do hope this overview gives beginning photographers something to think about and a few techniques to try. Basic Elements Beyond the mechanical aspects of picture-taking, which nearly anyone can learn, there is an indefinable “something” that transforms an image into a work of art.
Lighting Eastern Bluebird. “The angle, intensity, and hue of your light source can make or break a picture,” says photographer Tim Gallagher. Framing. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Yukon, North of Ordinary - Photo Gallery.