Category

Water Life

Location

Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Gear

NIKON D5 | 85mm f1.4D Lens - 1/80s | f/1.6 | ISO6400

Description

Thor the Walrus visits Scarborough! As the news had broken so late in the evening there was very few general public or photographers on site to see the mammal at night. The British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), a marine charity, had set up a cordon to prevent any passers by coming too close and I took this opportunity to lay down on the slipway and capture the above frame. In the photograph Thor has lifted it’s head as a car passed on Foreshore Road, briefly disturbing it’s rest before it returned to its original position laid on the cobbles. The image is lit by the streetlights away to the left and has the towns fishing boats in the background, despite being taken handheld at 1/80th of a second at f1.6 an ISO of 6400 was still needed to expose Thor and the slipway at 02:28am.

Photographer

Will Palmer

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