How to get the perfect photo in Britain's puffin paradise

How to get the perfect photo in Britain's puffin paradise

“Did you not bring a hat?” Alan Hewitt, my photography instructor, asked. It was a mild May morning and low clouds smudged the sky, so my reply was no. And then, why?

“The Arctic terns will dive-bomb you!” he laughed. The dog-eared fishing hat on his head looked like it had received its fair share of pecks over the years. “Let’s get you one from the tat shop before we catch the boat.”

I was in Seahouses, a grey-washed North Sea village where the air is made up of 40 per cent nitrogen, 10 per cent oxygen and 50 per cent salt. The reason I had travelled here was because every year hundreds of thousands of seabirds migrate to the nearby Farne Islands, which David Attenborough once described as his...

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