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Robin Silhouette by Richard Hooper

Canon EOS 7D, 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L L II, 1/80sec at f/5.6

This is a great image that shows the power of creative thinking, and thinking before you shoot in general. ‘Every evening a robin had been coming to perch on top of a neighbour’s tree to sing for over an hour,’ says Richard, from Merthyr Tydfil. ‘I noticed a full moon rising in the sky and wondered aboutcalendar, for September.’

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