This year's icy winter generated several photos of Danish bird species - Water Rail, Common Moorhen, Bittern, Little Grebe, Buzzard, Long-tailed Duck, Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Dipper and SMEWs - in hitherto 'unseen' (i.e. not documented) Dramatic, Severe or Beautiful situations and sceneries! Anyway, JENS KRISTIAN already 2003 broke barriers in Bird Photography with his (above) two Gulls in roaring surf from the North Sea - in August! I.e. exhibiting new ESTHETICS and LIFE conditions in gulls' World! ___________________________ Like in Poesy, when Richard BACH published 'Jonathan Livingston SEAGULL', 1972, and added NEW DIMENSIONS to the concepts of birds' and Man's LIFE on our planet (>1 mio. copies by 1976). JENS KRISTIAN: Great Pioneering ! KR ............... C.