Memorable Moments 4.
10th September 2024
One of my favourite images (although quite a simple shot) which also became a memorable moment occurred in the Western Ghats in India in 2010. These Ghats are a mountain range that receive large amounts of rain in the monsoon season but other times of the year can be blighted by intense fires.
Walking in the countryside after one of these small fires Susan and I came across a field that had been totally burned out with all the vegetation therein destroyed. Looking closer we could see a Yellow Wattled Lapwing standing right out in the middle looking rather forlorn, almost as if it was wondering where all its habitat had disappeared to.
It looked quite a poignant scene with the bird isolated in amongst the burnt foliage which was smoothed out by the shallow depth of field of a big lens.
It remains after all this time one of my favourite moments.
Walking in the countryside after one of these small fires Susan and I came across a field that had been totally burned out with all the vegetation therein destroyed. Looking closer we could see a Yellow Wattled Lapwing standing right out in the middle looking rather forlorn, almost as if it was wondering where all its habitat had disappeared to.
It looked quite a poignant scene with the bird isolated in amongst the burnt foliage which was smoothed out by the shallow depth of field of a big lens.
It remains after all this time one of my favourite moments.