Nicki Gwynn-Jones
Exotic Dancer
Pretty much straight from the camera, backlit and deliberately underexposed, this is part of the courtship ritual of the Great Egret. A century ago these birds were almost wiped out by hunters who sold their glorious plumes to the manufactuers of ladies hats. They shot the birds as they sat on their nests, knowing that they would never desert their young. The babies were left to starve.
Exotic Dancer
Pretty much straight from the camera, backlit and deliberately underexposed, this is part of the courtship ritual of the Great Egret. A century ago these birds were almost wiped out by hunters who sold their glorious plumes to the manufactuers of ladies hats. They shot the birds as they sat on their nests, knowing that they would never desert their young. The babies were left to starve.