Long Lens Kingfisher T-Shirt Size:3XLA kingfisher perched on the end of a long white super telephoto lens, under the words Long Lens Club, Members Only. Anyone who shoots birds knows the joke: you carry a metre of glass into a freezing hide at dawn for one shot of a kingfisher, and the bird that finally turns up lands on the lens itself. Wildlife and bird photography is a membership you pay for in early mornings, sore shoulders, and telephoto lenses that cost more than the car. I have
Wildlife and bird photography is a membership you pay for in early mornings
and came back as the thing people reach for precisely because it makes them slow down
A funny photographer t-shirt for the self-aware — anyone who knows that being ready is the easy part and not blowing it is the rest
Delivered instantly
which is about the closest a graphic gets to a haiku
if you think about it: somebody has to keep the visual record of a place
and anyone who learned the craft one stainless tank at a time
There is a real kinship between the wildlife photographer and the wildlife
and within a decade it had become the black-and-white film of record — fast enough to shoot handheld in available light
The Gallery: Wildlife Division
The joke works on two levels at once: the camera really is a classic
and the aperture pairs — f/4
