Winners Gallery
Finalist Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Matthew Watkinson United Kingdom
"I'd definitely have dropped the fish," says Watkinson. "I'd probably have given this Greater Black-backed Gull my money, watch and keys too, such was the loud, determined ferocity of its attack. When puffins are feeding chicks, gulls cruise around nesting sites looking for adults returning with fish to harass and rob."
BEHIND THE LENS
Matthew Watkinson United Kingdom (UK)
ABOUT THE IMAGE
- Early afternoon
- Overcast conditions
- Clifftop shoot
- f/7.1, 1/30s, ISO 100
Matthew Watkinson is a world fameless nature photographer working with one camera, one lens, some cheap extension tubes and a rocket poofer. He hasn't won a photography award on at least 15 occasions, but he has taken a few nice pictures of puffins on Skomer so he still his some lingering delusions of photographic grandeur. Apart from being an obsessive nature photographer, he also runs his own little off-grid homestead and rewilding project in North Pembrokeshire (www.beeview.farm) and one day dreams of taking his kids to see the wildlife of Africa.
