Gulls: Finding Ethereal Beauty

As a photographer who is inspired by all things nature, wildlife and culture I am continuously spellbound by the sheer beauty and diversity of our wonderful world.     In recent years I’ve been driven to further experiment and create outside of the usual photographic boundaries.

The humble seagull is generally a bird that rarely gets a second look.    However, they emerged as the perfect subject matter for this series of images given their common, plentiful presence and quite often brash behaviour as chip stealing fiends.

This series of Limited Edition images were produced entirely in camera with none of the content digitally created.  

Their impressionistic style and painterly effect, was created by photographing these birds using Intentional Camera Movement techniques combined with very slow shutter speeds to emphasise movement, create blur and transform what may be considered quite ordinary more towards the abstract extraordinary.  

All images in this series have been wholly created in the camera and are hand-held, single exposure images. There is no Photoshop used to alter the images.

To find out more about Intentional Camera Movement click here. https://jillianmitchellphotography.com/2025/03/22/what-is-intentional-camera-movement/

All images in this series are available as limited editions of 10.    

At present the images in this collection are below.

Many of these can be customized to suit your needs in terms of print size and whether you prefer your prints to be (eg. horizontal, vertical, square etc.).