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Amazing shot. How the heck did you get this perspective? How big is this bird?

Huh?? Pretty awesome perspective Kah Kit!!

This thing looks enormous... Cool shot.

What a great perspective you have here! Love the albatros and the nicve landscape in teh back. Original and well done!

Kah Kit, amazingly sharp and a very unique aspect, did he peck your lens, you must have been very close, both to the albatross AND the water....
Nice one my friend..

Mark.

Great perspective - can't believe he let you get so close! Never thought of albatrosses as being a pretty bird, but I love the pale color on it's beak.

The size difference between this bird and the others is really impressive (exaggerated I'm sure by the wide angle) and the lighting is really nice.

I don't think this is an ESS shot since the bird is very much the main focus of this image.

This is a very cool shot. Fun to look at and well done. The large version is great.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, Wi

Always nice, a wide ankle shot of wilflife!

Just perfect Kah! A great "combo" shot like you said (landscape photographer with an albatross!!)

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I'm always amazed at how close you can get to an albatross, great use of the wide angle on this bird, and I love the soft light on the water too.

Fantastic perspective and a great image Kah kit! Love the color of the water and wide perspetive a lot. Great image this.

Kah Kit,

You testing me? Sorry, but I felt this is better suited here in Avian. You mentioned you had posted a wider view here, but I can't find it. If there already was one, I probably wouldn't move it. Hope you understand. Thanks!

This is pretty wild, and in your face! Are you sure this isn't a composite? That albatross relative to the other birds is the size of a small ostrich! whew! Great catch however it was done.

Lon

W W!!! Sweetness!!!

Ken Archer

An eye-grabbing image. I always enjoy these close wide angle views of birds since we see so few of them.

I like the variety of colors of blue shown in the sky and water, feels cool and remote. Neat perspective. The water the main Albatross is on almost appears raised, unusual. Is it a composite as Lon asked???

Good to see you over here in avian, a sweet birdscape, I like all the petrels in the bg as well.

One of the main reasons I don't shoot birds very much, is because in order to do so, you often need very long lenses and you end up with just the subject and maybe a branch, leaf, or part of a tree trunk - and that's it. The great thing about this shot is that you have the subject large in the frame, while at the same time show a lot of the environment. Very nice!

That said, the gull does look incredibly large, and the sky looks very over processed to me. Too much highlight recovery?

Wonderful perspective! Excellent capture.

Just to make clear, this is not a composite. The albatross is a much larger bird than the petrels, emphasised by its proximity and wide angle.
Marsel, I did some highlight recovery at the horizon but the clouds are pretty much the way that they were, a bit strange looking.

Well done - Kaikoura the only place I know of where you can take along a landscape lens for birds.

One of the best wide angle wildlife images I've seen. Simply Great!!!!