Man Takes Perfect Photo of Diving Kingfisher after Six Years and 720,000 Tries
It’s a trite saying, but ‘Try, try until you succeed’ does hold true even today. Case-in-point is Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen, who spent six long years trying to get the perfect shot of a kingfisher diving into water. 720,000 tries later, he finally succeeded!
Alan, 46, was adamant about getting the shot in memory of his late grandfather Robert Murray, who often took him to see the kingfisher nesting spot at the beautiful lakeside near Kirkcudbright, Scotland, when he was about six years old. In fact, those childhood treks actually inspired him to take up photography at age 40.
“As a small boy of about six, I remember my grandfather taking me to see the kingfisher nest, and I just remember being completely blown away by how magnificent the birds are,” Alan said. “It was extraordinary how quick they flashed into the water with their brilliant blue colors – they didn’t look real, they were like a bullet they were so quick. So when I took up photography, I returned to this same spot to photograph the kingfishers.”
So Alan returned to the lakeside a few times each week and spent his time taking hundreds of photographs per day. The father-of-three spent an average of 100 days a year, clocking up over 4,200 hours and 720,000 photos before he finally got his dream shot – a kingfisher executing the perfect dive, without a single splash.
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a fish, though - she deserves a reward as well... 
