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Performance Art in Wildlife Photography

I’m sure I’m not the only person to have noticed that in many competitions there appear to be a disproportionate number of images of kingfishers emerging from water with fish in their bills, mountain lions leaping across narrow canyons, red squirrels in mid-air, hummingbirds hovering to feed from a beautiful flower and the like. If you look through the advertisements for photography workshops in many a magazine, you’ll come to the conclusion that many of these must have been achieved through attending one of these.