Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1908 Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- Roseate Tern on nest made in a cleft of rock. The bird is “panting” with the heat.
- Exhibitor:
- William Bickerton
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photography and its Application to Processes of Reproduction
- Group Title:
- The Roseate Tern
- Exhibit No.:
- 333
- Exhibit No. 2:
- (a)
- Description:
- This is the rarest of the five British species of terns, only a few pairs nesting annually in the British Isles. It is believed that these are the first photographs of this rare species ever taken in the British Isles, and in order to secure them the photographer had to spend week on a lonely lighthouse rock.
- Exhibit type:
- Photographic equipment and supplies
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
- Prices:
- Original Framed 21/-
