Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON
My project a couple of days ago was to try and shoot a seagull at dawn, against the backdrop of a Melbourne landmark. Not so easy. You try working out which way a seagull is going to fly! I had about six to eight attempts and came up with nothing tangible. Either the gull would fly too low, or too high, or it would wheel around, or it would not fly in the vicinity of the dawn colours. I was just about to pack up when I spotted this gull. He was about 70 metres away, so I unwound the 18-125 lens, tried to guess where he was going, tracked the camera in front of him and fired off this shot - just as he flew into the frame. On the right is the Rialto, which was until recently Melbourne's tallest building, easily identifiable by its blue glass exterior.
