Thousands of gulls soar over the old fishing port, searching, no doubt, for a free lunch. There is no way to know exactly what kind of motions we can stop or blur in a situation like this. There are a dozen gulls in the air and fifteen others jammed on a railing below them – and no way to anticipate what comes next. I set my shutter speed on 1/400th of a second, zoomed out my lens to 230mm, and used burst shooting to fire off three separate bursts of four or five shots, each with a single press of the shutter button. This was the only image out of 15 or so where there were no gull mergers in the sky. Each gull was distinct from the others, and flying in its own space. The two gulls in profile at the center of the image are the best examples of stopped action here. In fact, the gull at top center is actually carrying a morsel with its feet.