It was just a few years ago that I picked up a camera and discovered what would quickly become my passion: nature photography. Up until last summer, I had really only photographed animals around my region of Southern Ontario, Canada. Although I was having fun exploring close to home, I started to develop the desire to photograph nature elsewhere. The rugged coastlines of Canada’s most easterly province, Newfoundland and Labrador, known as ‘The Rock’ because of its predominantly rocky terrain and soil composition which makes growing things a challenge, was calling to me. As much as the landscape itself was appealing, there was also one adorable seabird that I really wanted to meet and photograph… the Atlantic Puffin. After spending eight months at sea, thousands of nesting pairs return to land and begin breeding around late April and early May.