This is amazing, thanks for sharing. That swallow photo mid flight is incredible, I can’t fathom how people can take photographs like that. Something to work towards, without a doubt
At the live meeting, we went through the images and commented on what we found interesting. One observation I made was how the standard human portrait is face-on but unique and unusual in bird photography.
I think it might be because humans have eyes pointing forward, but birds and many other animals have eyes on the sides of their heads, so a face-on photo looks funny, like the flamingo above.
@arbitrary.reindeer It isn’t just that but how we take the portraits. E.g., this one is less portrait-like in terms of light and composition, so not as unusual: