Different Self-portrait

[Adey Baker]

Everyone's seen those pictures of photographers dripping with equipment, hanging from both shoulders, around their neck, bulging from pockets in their waistcoats, etc.

They're also, usually leaning on a big tele-lens mounted on a tripod with other stuff 'spilling-out' of a huge gadget bag on the ground - just in case you're unsure of their role in life!

Attached is a self-portrait from a slightly different perspective - has anyone else any shots of themselves other than the standard mug-shot?!

BTW, this in no way implies that I regard myself as 'A Photographer' - certainly not with a capital 'P,' anyway.

Adey

[jayhunter]

Hi Adey, I have some similar views of myself, with just a small butterfly showing in the huge shadow partially obliterating that which I had spent twenty minutes chasing.

[Tammie]

That's a really cool.... I like that one! :)

[John N]

I agree, It's artistic.:t:

[Michael Frankis]

What did the Herring Gull think of it?!?

Michael

[pauco]

Talk about taken in deep shadow!! its great, and its different.

[Beverlybaynes]

Love it!

[steve_nova]

I really love this. Great, great shot:t:

[pduxon]

Originally posted by Michael Frankis
What did the Herring Gull think of it?!?

Michael

Probably wondering what the camera tastes like.

Nice pic by the way.

[Adey Baker]

You don't believe in splitting Herring Gull and Yellow-legged Gull then, Michael.

Sorry for hiding most of the ID details!

[steve_nova]

These shots would probably send shudders through my dad because as a kid he picked up a gull that was sick and in some distress. It promptly turned round, clamping his nose firmly in it's beak making his eyes water.
he said that the two holes it had put either side of his nose took weeks to heal!!!

[christineredgate]

Great composition.It is different,
How did you get so near to the gull.
Christine.

[Adey Baker]

Simple answer, Christine - food!

In fact, someone else had fed it and it was trying to scrounge off both myself and my wife (I didn't give it any!)

Adey

[Geraldine]

Hi Adey,
Great shots! I've heard that if you need to pick up a gull, that if you hold out your finger, presumeably with a glove on? or a pencil?, that the gull will hold tightly to that, allowing you to carry it without risking your eyes, I have no idea if this is true, so would welcome anyone's opinion, as we get the occasional gull in trouble down this way.

[Adey Baker]

The pencil idea sounds interesting.

Animals in trouble don't seem to have the capacity to say 'thank you' to their rescuers!

A few years ago a Sparrowhawk wedged itself upside down in my privet hedge, so I put on my barbour jacket and thickest gloves before carefully pruning all around it to eventually free it.

Just before it finally went it grabbed one of my fingers with its talons and went through the glove and pierced my skin. Ungrateful little *******!

Several years before that, I was in the pub one evening when one of the regulars walked in and said; 'I found an injured Heron in a ditch today, so I took it up to Clive (another keen, birdwatcher)'

Knowing the size of a heron's bill I said that it sounded a bit 'dodgy,' and sure enough, 1/2 an hour later in walked Clive with a large plaster on his nose, wondering why we all burst out laughing!

Adey