What originally attracted me to this piece was the thought, "Wow, how could someone possibly get a shot like that?!" The movement and spontaneity involved in this piece really amazes me.
This photograph employs a head on medium shot of a puffin in flight. The depth of field of the shot is extremely shallow, so much so that the puffin's feet are slightly out of focus, and the background is completely obscured. There is nothing besides the bird in the frame that could distract from the movement communicated in the shot. The angle used allows the wingspan of the bird to cut the photo with a graceful diagonal, and it sets the face perfectly parallel to the bottom of the frame.
I'm not sure that I would change anything about this shot, apart from possible experimenting with alternative angles. The photographer was extremely successful in communicating the movement of the bird and the spur of the moment action involved in taking the photo. I love it.
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