This looks like a typical fake picture. But the bird was really that close to me. And I was using a slightly wide angle lens. So in fact it was almost frightening. These gulls are agressive ! The amount of light in Venice Beach allows this freezing of the animal arriving to pick up some garbage. Fast shutter. But everything is on focus also. Small aperture. This does not happen very often. And since I was using a Leica range finder camera, I had no indication that it was going to be so sharp everywhere, except in my technical photographer's mind. This gives the impression that the bird has been detoured from another picture and pasted there. Well if such had been the case, I would probably have put the bird somewhere else in the frame. Anyway, although the situation does not look as dramatic as the Hitchcock movie and is happening fifty years later and three hundred miles south, I was not so much at ease, thinking of broken glasses, savagely pierced eyes and general panic. But nothing happened…