Gannets in the mist
Having grown up in a family of bird-lovers, I was very excited to arrange this month’s shoot at the RSPB’s (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) flagship site, Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire. Every year, nearly half a million seabirds pack the cliff ledges between Bempton and Flamborough – including thousands of the UK’s largest species, gannets. Bempton offers six safe cliff-edge viewing platforms, giving visitors (and photographers) stunning close-up views of life on the edge. These are where I’m spending most of my day with Tesni Ward, as she guides me through her top tips for capturing coastal birds.
As the RSPB explains on its website, the chalk cliffs of Bempton are an ideal habitat for a huge range of species: “From April to October,
