Take a look at the picture.

What you have seen isn’t just a photo of a bird. It’s a poem. How?

A bird diving 30 miles an hour into clean and still water to meet his twin brother. Without a splash of water wasted. 

This amazing photograph was captured by a fisherman-turned-wildlife photographer called Alan McFadyen. He lives in Scotland and is now running a wildlife photography business.

This photo wasn’t taken in a day. A painstaking effort went behind creating this masterpiece.

McFadyen took six long years. 4200 hours in total. He travelled every day, many miles, seven days a week to the same spot, River Tarff woodland. 

He would skip breakfast and miss his dates (missed many girls in the bargain). All for the love of wildlife photography. 

He got his first camera – a Nikon D4 – in 2009 and that kicked the adrenaline in him. 

He would cycle to the spot daily, set up the porch at vantage points with camouflage (birds don’t pose for photos) and click, click and click. Hours would be gone. 

He clicked 600 shots a day. A whopping 720,000 clicks in all. 

Patience paid him. 

And the passion for photography shouldn’t be any less. This is an adventure sport. Only a superhuman effort could win laurels.

It cost McFadyen his relationships. He was engaged five times. Twice divorced. 

He was six when he first fell in love with nature. His grandfather was his inspiration, as the lad was taken around on a bicycle every day to see those bird’s nests. 

That was how his love of nature kick-started and his passion for wildlife photography. 

McFadyen dedicated this one helluva masterpiece to the memory of his granddad.