Simply Snipe: Finding Stanley
11th July 2016
It's been a challenge that has lasted at least 3 years to find a Snipe on a post to photograph.
And just like everything you wait for, including a number 10 bus..guess what, 5 Snipe all turn up, one after another!
I had missed out so many times of actually photographing a Snipe on a post so together with dear friends Steve, Penny and Neil, a mythical character called Stanley evolved. In fact during a very hysterical, two weeks in Iceland a couple of years back, Steve cleverly created a whole back story along the lines of the then cult Scandinavian drama "The Killing" with Stanley, being the hero of the tale. I did say that it was an hysterical trip and therefore hope you can see your way round this explanation!
Anyway long, story short, just when I thought Stanley was going to allude me again, fortune smiled on me. Along one road, one that I had travelled for the previous 4 days, I finally got lucky and saw Stanley all up for being photographed.
In fact I'd call that more than lucky!
And just like everything you wait for, including a number 10 bus..guess what, 5 Snipe all turn up, one after another!
I had missed out so many times of actually photographing a Snipe on a post so together with dear friends Steve, Penny and Neil, a mythical character called Stanley evolved. In fact during a very hysterical, two weeks in Iceland a couple of years back, Steve cleverly created a whole back story along the lines of the then cult Scandinavian drama "The Killing" with Stanley, being the hero of the tale. I did say that it was an hysterical trip and therefore hope you can see your way round this explanation!
Anyway long, story short, just when I thought Stanley was going to allude me again, fortune smiled on me. Along one road, one that I had travelled for the previous 4 days, I finally got lucky and saw Stanley all up for being photographed.
In fact I'd call that more than lucky!