Top Image & Nature DPI Winner - Pair of Crested Tits by Tina Boswell
The image was taken in the first week of January 2024, in the Cairngorms. I had been trying to capture these little birds for a long time but they are quite elusive. Peter and I spent days tramping through the forests of the Cairngorms. We could hear plenty and kept catching glimpses but never settling long enough to catch a decent image. We had seen them on the feeders at Loch Garten but we wanted to capture them within the forest itself. So we enlisted the help Cairngorm wildlife aficionado Neil McIntyre He took us deep into the forest on very cold and wet day and there they were, lots of them. He left us to it and we had hours and hours of photography and 100s and100s of images.
This particular images was special as they are difficult to capture in pairs, they are fast and territorial and very rarely do you get two on a branch. You can see from the body language they are facing off. But I just kept shooting, they were only on the branch a couple of seconds and I kept my fingers crossed and was very happy that I caught the shot. The only work in post was a crop.
Gear-
NikonZ8
Nikon 500mm pf f5.6
ISO 3200
1/320s
+0.3
1st Colour Image Green Hut by David Bolton
The Green Hut, often referred to as the Grouse Hut, is in a desolate spot on a B road near a church somewhere north of Kinclaven wood. Looks every bit like a god forsaken place. The hut sits near a small loch with mountains in the background. An abundance of reeds provides helpful foreground interest .
The image was taken with Canon equipment and processed using Photoshop obtained on a disc from the Riyadh souk.
David Bolton
1st Mono Image - Home Guard by Gillian Temple
This is a composite image of three pictures taken at a WW2 reenactment event. The background is soldiers in a trench, which has been faded slightly, the foreground image of a Home Guard soldier, then textures and writing over laying the whole image. All images were taken with Canon R5 camera and 24-105 mm Lens and edited in Photoshop.
Gillian Temple
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