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The Black series is a body of work that includes killer whales doing various jumping behaviours where the background is completely removed. Due to the splashing water in the photos, this is a difficult process to execute as the background cannot be removed by a simple clipping mask. It has to be done with careful attention to detail and selective burning of the image.
I uploaded the first image in this series to the internet in 2009. My most popular image of the series is called 'Black Bow' which garnered a large internet viewing (almost 60,000 views and over 5,300 favourites on deviantART.com) and was reposted and shared on countless other websites.
One of the images in the Black series, 'Wings To Fly', won the Nikon Print Award in my first year of college, an award not often achieved by first year students. In order to win this award my photograph had to be the highest scoring photograph taken with a Nikon camera out of all of the entries.