After 6 Years And 720,000 Attempts, Photographer Finally Takes Perfect Shot Of Kingfisher

“The photo I was going for of the perfect dive, flawlessly straight, with no splash required not only me to be in the right place and get a fortunate shot but also for the bird itself to get it perfect,” McFadyen told The Herald Scotland. “I would often go and take 600 pictures in a session, and not a single one of them be any good. However, looking back on the thousands and thousands of photos I have taken to get this one image, it makes me realize just how much work I have done to get it.”

It took Alan McFadyen 6 years, 4,200 hours and 720,000 photos to get this shot:
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