Making The Time To Photograph What You Love | Photographing Seabirds in Scotland 

The day you went out is so clear📸🌞🌞☀️☀️

Definitely a good place to photograph wild birds. You captured some stunning image's. No wonder you were over the moon.

Magical Kim, loved the way the purple flowers matched your jacket, but the b&w images were fantastic.

Well, it's 96% desert here in Egypt, so I guess I'll have a lovely summer, photographing deadly snakes and scorpions 😆

Beautiful images of the gannets Kim, and I have to agree with you the ones with the seaweed in their beaks are terrific. 🙂

Brilliant photos Kim📷👍🏼

Always a pleasure to wake up to you on a sunny Sunday morning Kim.....😎 Spot on about the B&W shots. Got some great shots in B&W at Bempton Cliffs a few years back 🤠

The narrative through the bird flu gives this video and your photos that extra captivating drama and depth.

My favourite was the shot looking down on the bird in flight with the sea in the background 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Amazing video and photos. Thank you for sharing your joy with us.

Lovely video and fantastic images!!!! 👍

💜👍💜👍cant wait for my stonehaven holiday August.... Seagulls👍👍👍👍

Hopefully the gannet population will recover. Your pictures of them are fab. Birds in flight is really fun, at the moment I'm trying to get a decent image of a swift. Have taken hundreds of photos, no luck yet, but enjoying every attempt, makes me feel happy and content. Your videos are inspiring, please keep doing them.

Kim! It seems we may have switched. You've got the warm and sunny weather while Boston is 10c with lots of clouds and rain all weekend. The bird situation is so sad. However, my sister lives in England and a couple weeks ago made it to the lone puffin viewing location and texted me some photos. Needless to say, I was jealous. With my work and various appointments, I don't always get to go at the "optimal time" so I don't worry about perfect conditions as I'd rather be out in nature than in my apartment wishing for better conditions. Even with rain and cooler temps tomorrow, it's my chance to do some droplet photography on the beautiful flowers in my neighborhood! It's hard for me to pinpoint a "favorite" type of photography which is why I don't bother with the struggle of being a specialist vs a more general photographer. I think my "specialty" is just nature and that's what makes me happy. Especially macro insects like bees, landscapes of the beautiful New England autumn colors, black and white, flowers, photos of people doing things like holding hands or having fun. Just so much about capturing beauty and being out in nature is my "specialty" nowadays. As usual, spectacular images! Thank you for sharing with us!

Great location & results Kim.... always love B&W pics of birds in flight... cheers from Australia 🦘🦘😊

Kim I had a similar experience in Southwestern Colorado... in the San Juan mountains there are evergreen trees for miles... it's beautiful... a few years ago, an infestation of Pine Beetles killed thousands of trees... so much so, there was more brown than green in your field of vision. It was truly sad. I'm happy to say it's coming back now. Beautiful B/W shots Kim !!

Love the black and white it’s gives a timeless feel.

Your black and white images are quite stunning. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely gannets! I didn't expect the difference between b&w and colour to be so remarkable, but it really was. Those b&w pictures really showed the gannets from their best side in their true environment. You can literally smell the coastal air and hear the swarms of birds over your head! Living in the mountainious inlands(?) of Norway, the coast is far away, and I sometimes miss the overwhelming sound of seabirds gathering on coastal cliffs in early summer. But, I have my dippers😊

Kim I hate seeing you on the edge of the cliffs Your b&w pics are lovely 😊

Fantastic video 👌🏼

Awsome video!! Always enjoy your vedios and your prospective on photo shoots. Keep up the swsome work

You are so right about going to the same areas time after time. I have a walk I do most days and as you say, all so often there is always some thing that we walk past, then pause to see it on another day .Enjoying your work and inspiration .

thanks so much, love the images so much. enjoy the nice weather and the birds, here many of the birds were here just two weeks ago, now all are gone only our locals and summer breeding visitors, wonder why they come at this hot weather, LOL.

Hi Kim, really nice video. Images are amazing. I'm loving the black & White photos. I feel black & white photos brings out the texture of what is being photographed.

I have watched a few of your youtube content in the last few weeks, this one however has inspired me to subscribe - well done brilliant. I'm 74 & too poorly to walk to these great locations so am limited to places I can drive to. If you can recommend a locations book I'd appreciate it. I'm in Oxfordshire and use an old Nikon D3300 & am looking for a 600mm zoom lens

YEAH!!! Kim, you're back at the coast! Love the B&W ones as well. Great job once again.

You would absolutely love Cape St. Marys in Newfoundland Canada. Thousands of pairs on a giant sea stack just a few meters from the 600 foot cliffs. I'd post a link but not sure if that's allowed. Love seabirds and the cliff top flowers

Thx for another great video, Kim. Last night we discussed in my camera club how AI pictures generated from verbal descriptions threaten traditional photography. There are undoubtedly scary perspectives regarding media and truth-telling. Still, for guys like us, it’s all about the pleasure of going out there with an open mind, enjoying life, observing, and making the best possible photographs out of what we see.

Wonderful images Kim.

Kim Bird in flight photography is always challenging and you got some great photos

Wonderful story about summer. Summer is for me the main as I hike up in the Alps without snow and avalanche danger. But it means also early starts or late evenings for the right light.

Hi Kim. Your wonderful photographs tell such a powerful story of the plight of these gannets and the difficulties that currently surround nature both natural and non-natural. Hopefully through your images more people are made aware of this story. Lets just hope this colony of gannets recovers back to its former numbers. Cheers, Stu

I never cared much for BnW either. To me it was always hum drum until I converted one, that for some reason, called out to be BnW and it transformed my thinking about it. Like you say, it just has to be that certain image that calls out to be different.

Spectacular images - I have loved watching your progression as a truly great photographer and your enthusiasm for the craft.

Pretty birds. We see them from time to time at the Jersey shore,but they are so far away out over the water. Have a great summer Kim.

Lovely job Kim 👍🏻 I wish I lived closer to the coast

Awesome stuff! I would love to find a place like that where I can practice "bird in flight" photography. Thanks for bringing us along as always! I did, however, find it odd that you were in a puffy and it was summer. I suppose that it's not as warm there as it is here. See you next Sunday!

Great video Kim! Summertime is complicated for photography because of the harsh light but B&W is always a win in this scenario :)

Hello from British Columbia. Thank you again for an amazing video.

Love B/w and always shoot it in harsh sunlight . great photos kim . Hope your cat settles in .

As much as I love color photography for most of what I photograph, i i find B&W PHOTOGRAPHY has a greater impact on some photos, in the years that I have photographed events, like weddings, some of my favorite photos were one's that I converted to B&W, the reason that I did not take the photos as black and white to begin with is that i wanted to give my clients a color and B&W copy of the same photo and photographing events many photos that you take are not posed shots, they happen in real time and its not possible to get a color and B&W photo that are exactly the same.

Black and white images certainly worked for you and I see that monochrome is gaining in popularity, so much so that Pentax have released a totally monochrome DSLR. It’s a step to far for me but I can see the appeal for others. Thanks for the video, the inspiration you gave is fantastic.

amazing photos! well done

So very sad how the numbers of Gannets have dropped, I fortunately photographed a number of them in Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for your videos Kim they and the podcasts are always a welcome addition, love your style

Love the photos you’re making Scottish summer look pretty cold tho 😂

Thing is if you are shooting black and white images in RAW the image wii be in colour when you download it, if you shoot in JPEG that image will be in black and white

Thks for sharing. Please tell us the setting to take gannets' flight.

Looking for Canadian Geese this year, numbers are down. We used to have wave after wave, not this year, so sad. Your images are beautiful, thanks for sharing Kim.

What an uplifting Sunday morning video. Your joy was shining through. The images were fantastic, especially the Gannets with seaweed! The funny ones from behind made me laugh. Hope puss cat settles into her new home too and thank you for another inspiring video ❤

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Beautiful photographs but you never put any information about the picture. What f number, shutter speed, and ISO. Could you please put some information so we amateurs have a kind of idea what to set up our camera. Thank you so much I enjoyed watching your video all the time.

Silly question! Are the gannets eating the seaweed or building nests with it?

What a sad world it would be if we only viewed our beautiful world in monochrome. We are gifted to see life in colour enjoy the whole spectrum

hi kim, i see you take pictures of birds in flight. what is your technique? bursts in the hope that one is the right one, or the old method of just trying to capture the precise moment by taking a single photo? At least I do it that way, I think it speaks more about the photographer's ability than the camera he uses...do you think ?

Thank you for this sunday video, all your shots are amazing, the birds in flight were so beautiful. I wish more people would get out and enjoy nature in all forms. Kim I am sure others like me, find you comforting and inspiring. We all are given a gift, and you have surely found yours.

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A bird on a stick is ok, in flight is better, with something in its beak in flight is better again. I gues they are making a nest with the seaweed?

I was heartbroken to go to photograph the red-footed boobies and find the population also decimated by the avian flu. Seabirds are a joy to photograph. Nice work.

I have a crush on you Kim.

I enjoy your videos but do not like piano music on non commentary images other people do it. What about natural atmospheric sound

spectacular love the BW images

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