Although he doesn’t know it, the chick is posing on a prop I made and put up for him long before he was born.
He is standing at the edge of a wizened old hole in an elm stump that I salvaged many years ago and then took back to my workshop to adapt as a nest box.
I had to hoist it up into a tree and then wait patiently to see if an adult pair would move in.
When they eventually did, I then waited with baited breath for the chicks to be born. He was one of a large clutch and this is one of the many photographs I took of them as they began to explore the world about them.
It was many years before I finally sat down to apply the first brush strokes.
But if you think I’m dedicated to my art this week I read this article in The Guardian about two Victorian pioneers of wildlife photography who went to some quite bizarre and dangerous extremes to get up close to their wild subjects.
I will reveal more about how I get my wild subjects to pose at a new exhibition of my work which runs here at the gallery in Thixendale from November 9-24th. Please visit my website for more details. www.robertefuller.com
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Good work with the tawny owl chick Robert!,and also the nest box that you made in your workshop.
thank you Marc, it is always a long process but satisfying when it comes together