10/06/2026
TICKED OFF?
I think we've all had days like this puffin.
Everything is going to plan, you're focused on the job in hand, and then something small appears that completely steals your attention and consumes your time, it could be a difficult email, delayed project a spreadsheet that suddenly develops a personality (is that possible?) or a demanding client
For this puffin, it was quite literally a tick or 2.
What I love about wildlife photography is that it often captures moments that feel surprisingly familiar. We tend to share the perfect images, the graceful poses, dramatic landscapes, and picture perfect moments. But nature is real, messy, and occasionally irritated.
The tiny details often tell the bigger story.
As photographers, we spend countless hours chasing perfect light, sharp focus, and ideal compositions. Then a puffin scratches its face, looks thoroughly fed up with life, and creates a far more relatable image than anything we planned.
Perfection is impressive, but authenticity is memorable.
A puffin having a genuinely "ticked off" moment.
