Situated in the Bearing Sea, the Pribilofs are a very important nesting site for many of Alaska's sea birds, including the two pacific puffins and three auklet species.
I have a couple of thousand images of beautiful images of flower covered landscapes, northern fur seals, sea birds and amazing arctic foxes in summer coats to sort through and edit over the next few weeks but I thought I would share a preview with you.
This is one of my favorite images, despite the fact that I'm not a big fan of flight shots. However, the challenge of shooting puffins in flight was temptation enough to keep me glued to the wind swept sea cliffs for 6 hours last Thursday. Armed with my faithful D3 and a 600 f4 VR lens - wicked fast and sharp but extremely difficult to aim due to it's size - I tracked and panned the lightning fast little puffins until I had burned through my CF cards,.
By the time I pressed the shutter for this exposure I knew I had a good image. This bird had flown right down my ideal flight path at the right speed and with the right wing and head position. It felt right.
When I got home yesterday night I immediately downloaded it and checked it on my Mac to find out it was razor sharp... mission accomplished!
Enjoy!
Tufted Puffin in flight.
1 comments:
So much for not liking flight shots, eh?!?! Great job! These guys are such fast little footballs. Give me an Albatross in flight any day!
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