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Bubble Dance BW. A Little Egret fishing for food. Shot on E6. (Slide film).

I would come home from foreign war zone assignments for the Associated Press or the BBC or whomever - and my headspace would be a little dodgy.

I'd switch from television (work) to photography (play) and seek out shots like these on the lake where I lived.
I'd be shooting on Nikons with a 500mm or an 80-400mm lens.

I had a Canadian canoe with an electric motor and I'd spend hours on end in solitude with nature's silence. Eventually my head would repair itself. Nature is incredible like that.

I am still completely addicted to shooting... but in those days (this image shot in 2002), digital did not exist and shooting waterbirds like this could be a difficult and sometimes costly exercise.

One whole winter was spent with a flock of these Little Egrets. They move incredibly quickly and you have to be fast and committed to end up with any decent frames.

Most of the...

Alistair Lyne - ARTIST. I have spent the better part of my life - and my entire career - behind the lens of a camera. A high-end video camera for the most part. Traversing Africa and the world after international news, documentary, wildlife and conservation stories for global broadcast media. It is demanding work - and there is often not time to shoot stills on top of everything else. I do love to shoot though - and have always carried stills gear with me. So I try find time in my travels for photography. Some of that work can be seen here. I filmed in a number of war zones over the years. Conflict became a speciality of mine and kept me busy for over two decades. Dodgy parts of the world; Liberia, Congo, Somalia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,...