{"id":53895,"date":"2022-08-17T06:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T04:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/birding-is-fun-and-rewarding-20220816-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:23:36","slug":"birding-is-fun-and-rewarding-20220816-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/birding-is-fun-and-rewarding-20220816-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding is fun and rewarding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Rebecca Larkan from Bothasig, a home-schooling Grade 9 learner, started her photography account \u201cLarkan Lion Photography\u201d on Instagram near the end of 2020, she received quite a bit of positive feedback about her photos from other photographers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have always been keen on taking photos, but when I was younger that just meant \u2018borrowing\u2019 my parent\u2019s phones to take blurry pictures of the plants in our back yard. They ended up giving me my own little camera, a purple Nikon, which I delighted in using for a few years. But during lockdown in 2020, I became a lot more interested in photography, using my dad\u2019s Nikon P900 to take pictures of the birds and plants in our back yard. He also loves birding and photography and has passed that on to me,\u201d Rebecca says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then she has been on lots of adventures all over South Africa looking for new birds and animals to photograph and different landscapes to capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t remember my first photo, although it might have been an image I took of my mom\u2019s old cell phone, but all you can see is a blurry dot in the corner, representing a flying pigeon. Since my childhood there was a huge improvement in my photos. I recently took the pictures at the Toy Drive of Girl Guides Cape West and since my account on Instagram, the feedback from other photographers is very encouraging,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_b9fe472e\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3867\/e33644ac859f442f8df4bf14017dcfed.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7662ead3451a4134af31ac24aa4ede96.jpg\" title=\"One of her favourite photos of a penguin relaxing on a rock. PhOTO: Rebecca Larkan\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">One of her favourite photos of a penguin relaxing on a rock. PhOTO: Rebecca Larkan<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The other platform she uses to identify wildlife and plants she has seen is iNaturalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI started using this app during the City Nature Challenge last year. Although I am still at school I hope one day to make a living from photography. Many people think there are no business or job opportunities in this field, but you don\u2019t realise how much of photography and videography is involved in our daily lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter being on Instagram for a year, I discovered and became a member of the Young Wildlife Photographers of South Africa, a platform for young people aged 8 to 25 years to get to know one another, share advice and tips. It is really inspirational seeing their photos and achievements and hearing their travel stories. My favourite hobby is birdwatching. There are lots of great places around Cape Town where you can go birding. I am part of the Tygerberg Bird Club and I have really enjoyed going on outings with them,\u201d Rebecca says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"middle\" id=\"embed_1359a7e7\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/3867\/b7aa36a345824b5b9b1613b7608f3acc.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/409835edffda49409be12d06885cad75.jpg\" title=\"A giraffe checking out the scenery. FOTO: Rebecca Larkan\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">A giraffe checking out the scenery. 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