About the Image(s)

This was taken at a beach on the Pacific coast of Ecuador in February 2023. We were there many hours, during which many locally trapped tiny fish in nets thrown in the sea from the beach. This attracted hundreds of birds, large and small, including the interesting male frigate bird with its large bright red pouch. The extra image included to the right shown the scene a little earlier than when the main image was shown. I’ve had this Accepted as a Travel image in Exhibitions. I found the acrobatics of the larger fish amazing, as they picked up dropped mall fish in the shallow waters, only dropping their beak at the last minute grab the fish. I’ve cropped the image only partially to show some of the scene, while hopefully leaving the bird clear enough and large enough. The image was taken with my Olympus gear, and a 40-150 f2.8 lens at 92mm 9so FF 184), with the settings of 1/2,000 f3.2 ISO320. PP was in Lightroom.