Drew Buckley Photography

19/06/2026

Morning Light 🐧

It’s your daily puffin pic of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 81 - Atlantic puffin with a beak full of sand eels in the early morning light

Canon R5 + EF 500

18/06/2026

Heading Home 🐧

It’s your daily puffin pic of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 80 - Atlantic puffin silhouetted at sunset in evening light flying returning to Skomer Island. Taken from an evening boat back in 2021

Canon R5 + EF100-400

17/06/2026

Puffling 🐧

It’s your daily puffin pic of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 79 - in early July you’ll spot these little things peeping out of their burrow. Cutely named a Puffling, this moment is met by the adult pushing it back down the safety of the burrow - hiding it from any passing predators, such as the great black-backed gulls who quite easily eat a few of these per day. When they pop out you’ll see the youngsters exercising their wings in the daytime, ready for fledging in the evening. Jumping off the cliffs and swim out to sea with the parent, not returning to land for a good three or four years before coming back to the colony they were born to start a family of their own.

Canon R5 + RF100-500

17/06/2026

16/06/2026

Dawn 🐧

It’s your daily puffin pic of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 78 - a silhouetted puffin against a sunrise sky.

Canon R5 Mark II & RF 135

16/06/2026

Enys Dodnan 🌊

On a blustery evening on the coast near Lands End, Cornwall

15/06/2026

Simplicity 🐧

It’s your daily puffin pic of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 77. A shot from 2015 - a simple portrait. Lining up a bird that has a clean background of the distant sea coupled with a shallow depth of field (f/4) gives a lovely colour wash of blue to place the subject against. Inclusion of a rock closer to the camera - which in turn blurs out due to the depth of field constrained to the area around the bird - helps to create more layering and depth in the scene. Daytime lighting can sometimes be too harsh on black and white subjects, but the overcast conditions help here to diffuse the light making exposing the bird a much easier task with less contrast. Plus the usual waiting for the bird to turn its head before taking the shot.

Canon 7D Mark II & EF 300 f/2.8

14/06/2026

Preening 🐧

It’s your daily puffin pic of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 76. Another shot from way back in 2013, capturing a behavioural moment of a puffin preening, when shooting with a longer lens and shallow depth of field, you're never going to get the whole depth of bird in focus but as long as the eye is sharp is the main aim. Also using a wide open aperture you'll get a lovely out of focus colour wash background, such as here with sandy burrows and the sea behind.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III & EF 300mm f/2.8

13/06/2026

Incoming 🐧

It’s your daily puffin post of the season, a delve into my Puffin image library from the last twenty years. For today's post, number 75. Another lovely workshop on Skomer today, good laughs with a great group who all got some great shots - plenty of birds in flight photography techniques too.

Canon R5 + EF 100-400 II (from 2021)

12/06/2026

Badger at golden hour ☀

The result of many evenings sitting and waiting - and hoping - that the badgers would emerge from their sett and cross the field as the sun is low on the horizon. Positioning myself so as to catch the light behind them, and in turn, the super orange lens flare that occurs naturally when you point your lens just to the side the sun, in this instance, the sun was just out of frame to the top left. I wouldn't normally recommend this in the daytime as it will most probably blow your eyeballs out, but, when the sun is low and not so strong, you just get a nice glow and spread of colour from the lens flaring. No photoshop, filters or fake colour masks here (and there never will be), this one's pretty much straight out of camera 🦡