If you see a bird doing something cool on TV in the UK, trainers Lloyd and Rose Buck are more often than not behind it. Their northern goshawk, Ellie, has appeared on TV loads of times. She’s a bit of a star.

Goshawks are ambush hunters. There’s not much time in their world for much outside of killing. Their shtick is to wind and weave at high speed through bushes and trees to outmaneuver their prey. The agility of goshawks is mind blowing. To tell the story of this bird, I needed to show her speed and grace.

I wanted to shoot the image on a long exposure and then light the flight path of the bird to create motion blur, giving