Underwater Picture Wins “Greatest Portrait” Class in Chicken Photographer of the Yr 2021
The winners of the 2021 Bird Photographer of the Year awards have been introduced, with Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto clinching the grand prize for his shot of a roadrunner surveying a portion of the US–Mexico border (beneath). The competitors obtained greater than 22,000 entries.
Nonetheless, it was the winner of the Portrait class that caught our eye: Spaniard Felipe Foncueva’s sensible seize of a diving brown pelican, which was taken off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Felipe says: “ this picture, I’m struck by the similarity between the way in which the pouch beneath the pelican’s invoice features and the throat of a feeding baleen whale. At first look you can be forgiven for considering you’re looking at a marine mammal relatively than a chook!” So true!
Foncueva used a Canon EOS 5D Mark IV with 8–15mm f/4 at 15mm (f/9, 1/10s, ISO 200) to seize his spectacular avian freediver.
