Another in my occasional series documenting the artworks I have in my home...
This photograph of two little owl fledglings was taken by professional wildlife photographer Oliver Wright. I had the good fortune to attend a photography workshop that Oliver co-led a few years ago in the Yorkshire Dales. Fast forward a year or two and he came to give a talk at a nearby camera club, so I decided I'd go along. He was generously offering two of his prints in a raffle to raise funds for the club. I bought some tickets, never imagining I'd actually win anything but, to my surprise, one of my ticket numbers was first out of the bag! I had the choice of which prize to go for and chose this one.
The cute, comic, little owls are among my favourite birds and these two have a kind of 'Mona Lisa' quality, in that their eyes follow you around the room! Add to that the gravestone they are perched on - poor little Roland, whoever, he was - and the whole image has a charm and poignancy that I love.
On Oliver's website he says this about it:
Poor little Roland, and poor parents of his. It gives the entire image an extra dimension.
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