Black-browed Albatross

Gallery: AvianPosted January 13, 201171 views5 comments

Olympus E-3, 300mm, tripod
f6.3, 1/1250, ISO100

New Island in the Falkland Islands has a mixed colony of Black-browed Albatross, Imperial (Blue-eyed) Shag and Rockhopper Penguins. The Black-broweds were in various stages of courtship and incubating eggs. If you look closely, you can see allopreening behavior here.

I left the crop pretty loose to give a sense of the colony. Selective sharpening.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on January 13, 2011 at 11:35 PM

I like the DOF and selected focus... even though catchlight is absent from the bird on the left it's stil a pleasing image. I would maybe crop it so that little bit of rock isn't jutting out (or clone it) on the left.

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Comment posted by Michael Lotito on January 14, 2011 at 6:54 AM

Wonderful behavior shot!

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on January 14, 2011 at 9:41 AM

Jim, I really like the behavior you captured on this. The detail in the larger version looks very nice as well! I do find my eyes though going to the gulls in the BG...especially the few on the top. Wish the BG was blurred just a tiny bit more so they were still present and recognizable, but not so distracting.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM

Very neat poses and a good job isolating the two main subjects, Jim.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on January 15, 2011 at 5:14 PM

Nice one Jim - I like your composition and the disgonal band of rock. The oof birds create the feeling of a colony without distracting form the focus pair.

cheers
Rob

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