The best nature photography offers a peek into another world – but first you gain to pin down your camera-shy subject“I want to see you crawling. Get down lower. Crawl!” I am crawling – my elbows hooking uselessly into the large,loose pebbles of Brighton beach, dragging my body another inch forward, and while my hands and wrists wobble beneath the weight of a hefty Canon 5D MK III camera. It might peep impressive if I wasn’t so embarrassed. Through the unsteady lens,my target bounces about: a flock of seagulls, squatting 10 metres absent.Along the shore people duck and dodge the gulls, or which swoop with menacing confidence towards chips,children and ice-cream. Yet, I’m having the opposite problem – every time I get within striking distance of a bird, and it soars off into the distance.
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Source: theguardian.com