YTHAN

Moving from the vast Morecambe Bay to the more enclosed Ythan estuary means working with fewer birds but with more colour and varied reflections. My palette comes from striped fields, various trees, dunes and even buildings. The light is special, I am sure, due to the North Sea and just like Morecambe Bay it changes by the second. It requires constant vigilance or the moment of capture is lost. Though generally seals would not attract me to photograph (though I love drawing them) I could not resist the sanderlings scuttling past with the lovely ‘airborne’ running that they do in ‘sneaking past the seals’