Mark Hopgood, The One That Got Away (ANIMAL & NATURE 2023)

I was photographing this heron in a shallow estuary that feeds into Port Cygnet Bay. I was extremely surprised that one catch was of a seahorse. The heron had several attempts as it caught it and dropped it a couple of times. These four images tell the story of one failed attempt.

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