Imagine my disappointment. Three hours of driving, a gorgeous national park teaming with interesting wildlife, a beautiful lake vista and the only living creatures in sight are … seagulls? Really?
At least I had lots of practice as the birds circled around before landing.
These birds top out at minus one on my interesting-things-to-photograph scale (yes I do have one). There must be something, anything else with a pulse in the area?
Seagulls never leave, so in time I resign myself to shooting them – just for practice. I desperately hope something else will come along. Nothing does. I take photos somewhat unenthusiastically, sarcastically wondering why my card is still in the camera.
Even with my boring creature discount, I begin to notice that some of the shots are looking OK on the camera screen. But when I get home and look again on the computer – it turns out they are still seagulls. I ignore them.
After a few months of aging and more second looks, I have hesitatantly concluded that perhaps familiarity bred a little too much contempt. With remaining reluctance and a little fear that I may scare off readers, I share my seagull images.
Hopefully beauty can be found in unexpected places.
It doesn’t matter where you go, there’s always one squawker in every crowd.
Is this what they mean by establishing a beach head?
My favourite of the bunch. There were so many seagulls, they just blurred into the background.
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We don’t have gulls here, I like your photos.
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Thanks. I thot gulls were everywhere but that’s just because they are common here.
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I think the small black-headed ones are known as Bonaparte’s Gull. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bonapartes_Gull/id I’ve actually not seen them very often. Maybe I don’t get out much. Beautiful pics as always Lyle.
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Thanks for that info. When I did a little checking around it quickly became apparent there are a lot of gulls.
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I have some seagull photos I haven’t got around to posting yet that aren’t NEARLY as lovely as your photos! You captured some very cool photos! 🙂
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Thanks. It was a fun day.
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Sea gulls can be very photogenic in tourist areas. Especially since they will come close to you. I wish all birds would pose like them :-).
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I wish they did too!
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I love it. I think you should use a sling shot. It will help you get a better arm.
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Thanks
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love the pics, don’t like the seagulls at all thou :s ! great images there 😉
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Appreciate that. That’s probably where I am at too.
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I love seagulls. NIce pics.
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Thanks – there’s probably no good reason not to like them.
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I like this! Seagulls aren’t exotic or particulary interesting, it takes a good photographer to show how nice they actually look! Well done 🙂
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Very high praise. Thanks. It actually took me a while to do this post to get over my own doubts.
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