Rock Pipit
There are three types of Pipit: paper, scissors and rock. This is a Rock Pipit:
Although it’s beautiful and close and detailed and well lit, I have got many photographs like it. I decide to try for something a little different as they flit on the coastal cliffs at Portland in Dorset.
I love it. I’m also aware it may be an acquired taste. What do you think?
(as always, click to enlarge).
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