After years of planning for the perfect bird photo, Vancouver's Liron Gertsman did it.
Now, he's been named Bird Photographer of the Year, for a photo he took in 2024 off the coast of Mexico during a total solar eclipse that captured the silhouette of a frigatebird in flight.
The story behind the photo goes back as far as 20 years, when Gertsman was five.
"At the time my parents had a tiny little, one of the basic, most simple cameras you could get at the time, and that's what I started taking pictures of birds with," he told CBC's The Early Edition.
Liron Gertsman won the Audubon Photography Awards' youth category in 2018 with his photo of cobalt-winged parakeets in Ecuador.
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