Winner - Sunday Times Travel Competition, Dec 2020

Very pleased that, after 7 runner-up positions, I’ve won the weekly Sunday Times Travel photography competition - The Big Shot. It gets me a £250 travel voucher from Trailfinders - and on the shortlist for their main prizes.

It was taken on Grimsey Island, a 15 minute boat ride away from Drangsnes, in the West fjords region of Iceland. The birds were very relaxed about our presence - it was amazing just to sit in the grass nearby and watching them coming and going.

It’s not really a ‘travel’ image - which generally shows a sense of place however wildlife images seem to do particularly well and so I took the ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ approach.

Fujifilm X-T2, 55-200mm lens at 200mm, 1/250mm at f4.8, ISO 200