ENTRY DESCRIPTION
He intended to create a minimalist image that mainly showed the "white spheres" of the eyes of this common murre (uria aalge) underexposing in camera. Picture taken in the Saltee Islands (Ireland).

AUTHOR
I began taking nature pictures 5 years ago, before that I just took pictures when I was traveling, without any ambitions. In these years photography took all my spare time as a hobby. At the beginning I started with landscapes and patterns, but quickly I felt in love with wild animals, birds over all, and I improved with every new discover I did in hiding techniques and birds behavior. Today, a big part of my photography is about birds, but I prefer a more creative approximation, showing their relationship with environment and looking for diffuse pictures and non-traditional images, where pixel peeping or definition are not important. About 95 per cent of my work as photographers is done near my living place, and I consider this essential to grow as a photographer. When you are very used to a place and the species that live in there, you think more about the picture to be taken so I can show it in a different way, which increase my creativity. In fact, in the last two years I have travelled for the first time in a Nature photography trip out of Spain, the country I live in. I consider myself versatile, and I am more and more interested in every category of Nature Photography: birds, mammals, invertebrates, macro, flowers, landscape, patterns, etc, trying to do something creative in every one of them, where composition is more important to me that the subject itself.
I spend a lot of time reading books, mostly printed catalogs of the most important nature photography contests in the world, as well as books of renowned photographers from whom I learned to take every picture seriously, trying to reach for a similar quality.

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