Lainey Foster, The Feathered Photobomber (SINGLE SHOT 2025)

While traveling through the Australian Outback and photographing the sunset in Erldunda, a town nestled in the 'Centre of the Centre' of Australia in the Northern Territory, an audacious local suddenly enters the frame as I peer through my camera’s viewfinder. The feathered photobomber startles me by inquisitively pecking at my lens, giving me an almighty fright and stealing the centre stage.

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