Birds Symphony

• Prize
  Bronze in Nature/Wildlife
• Photographer
  Sungdong Choi
• Technical Info
  1/125s, 10000, F4.5
• Photo Date
  2021-2024

Baikal Teal (Duck) is Korea's representative winter migratory bird. Living in Siberia and Sakhalin, Russia It spends the Winter in the south of Korea and heads north in the spring. About 600,000 to 800,000 teals, and about 95% of the world spends the winter in Korea. It starts to move around sunset in the evening. They perform group dances while creating various shapes. A group dance that sweeps the sky like ink lines in an ink painting. It is a magnificent symphony like an abstract oriental painting. This photo was taken 1,800 hours in total, 10 hours a day, from 2021 to 2024.

South Korea Born in 1961 Keimyung University Graphic Design 1981 Hongik University Graduate School Ad & Public Relations SAMSUNG 1985 LGAD Creative Director 1987-2001 INTERNATIONAL FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS_ judge 2025