I caught these godwits as they moved towards me, a churning sea at their backs. This environmental group shot arrests both the movement of the birds as well as the high surf that thunders towards us in the background. It is a portrait of a nature itself, pitting the fragile nature of the birds against the massive force of the sea. I used a long 350mm telephoto focal length to make the birds as large as I could and bring the sea as close to them as possible.