A superbly adequate late pub lunch
Catch up shots, set two.
Its a sun bright overcast day, its warm and a small blustery breeze is rocking the foliage as I sit on the buzzing banks of a small pond in Bethnal Green. I’m drinking cool Guinness from a plastic glass watching a heron fishing across the water. I’m stuck between two problems, the stuffing of a huge door step sandwich of Brunswick Ham, strong cheddar, loads of raw red onion, mayonnaise and black pepper down my throat as slowly as possible …against the fact that I’ve been trying to shoot this heron catching a fish for years (Well one just like it anyway) and this day more than many others offers a super light for it and hes fishing in a particular spot that I know I can get quite close to with a very pleasing background, which isn’t at all easy to come by anywhere, let alone a huge public park in London.
So given that I could go back and get another slow sandwich anytime I want…
A heron catching a …something. Possibly a leach has been suggested, I like to think its a very small fish, but then I would woudn’t I.
All shot: Victoria Park, Hackney/Bethnal Green, London, last month.
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This is my first heron catch shot, yeah its not actually a very cool catch or or anything, but for me it marks the beginning of another hunt for improvement upon it, I have my first, now for the rest. Of course the location does have the added benefit of nearby refreshment and supplies, which is a useful diversion if the heron fails to appear or just as likely flies off at the first sight, them’s the breaks I suppose … Just as long as the careless take care of their litter, which is becoming increasingly unlikely, I may yet get the full blown fish shot in as perfect a light but whether I can avoid the rubbish is another problem.
Shot at the same location in late autumn last year.
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Hmm, I know how he feels…
