Guillemot in flight

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Posted by Nigel Blake on April 28, 2009 at 12:37 AM

One of many from a good day at Bempton, there are more on my blog etc.

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Shooting Date/Time 26/04/2009 14:17:34
Owner's Name Nigel Blake
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Raw conversion DPP, P/P resize, slight crop to about 80% of the full frame, and sharpen Adobe CS3.

Posted by Major Gilbert on April 28, 2009 at 3:05 AM

Fine looking shot there Nigel.
The colouration of the sea showing off the subject well. You must have had some good weather.
Lots of techs there enough to keep everybody happy I would think.

Major.

Posted by Tim Munsey on April 28, 2009 at 3:11 AM

Ah, that blue is gorgeous, nice bird too.

Tim

Posted by David Sewell on April 28, 2009 at 4:08 AM

I see lots of shots of puffins in flight, but few guillemots. Nice one.

David

Posted by Paul Hillion on April 28, 2009 at 6:09 AM

Everything spot on, really like this. Have bookmarked your blog for my teabreaks

Posted by Nigel Blake on April 28, 2009 at 6:40 AM

Many thanks guys;
Paul, the blog was/is a tempory thing until my new website is up and running; I just seem to be far too busy to devote time to it currently (a sunny day outside and I am sorting out 60+ Owl images for a book today) I also have a Flickr gallery with 4500ish images, (all of my varied subjects are covered) on it.

Posted by Craig Jones on April 28, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Lovely flight shot, i love the colours/detail, well done as they don't hang around there

Posted by Simon Phillpotts on April 28, 2009 at 7:40 AM

That's a nice one Nigel, good catchlight and lovely background

Posted by Jeroen Stel on April 28, 2009 at 8:22 AM

Lovely flight shot!
Looks like the BG could use a little noise reduction.

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Posted by Nigel Blake on April 28, 2009 at 8:48 AM

I think that is the image hosting recompressing the file, Jeroen, as its a much smaller file size at142Kb to the 223Kb NR'ed one I uploaded.

Posted by Tom Smit on April 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Great flight shot you made there.

Posted by Billy Fairburn on April 28, 2009 at 1:21 PM

Great shot Nigel

Posted by Mark Sisson on April 29, 2009 at 3:25 AM

Never easy Nigel so well done - that practice on those planes pays off!!

Mark