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Common tern

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Posted by Chris O'Reilly on July 7, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Common tern
Taken on the Farnes - developing my flight photography skills.

C&C welcome,
Chris

1Ds 2
500 mm
1/4000 @ f4
ISO 200
Gimbal and tripod

PS. Anyone been to the Farnes in the last week? Still worth a trip?

Posted by Jeremy on July 7, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Super shot. Would prefer the bird a touch further left in the frame.
Haven't been to the Farnes in five years!
Posted by Ian Mason on July 8, 2009 at 4:29 AM
Literally immediately before I opened this, I was speaking with my colleague about his visit to the Farne Islands last week! He was mightly impressed and was repeatedly bombed by the terns. Plenty other species still there too.

I agree about composition. Lovely shot though.
Posted by John Swift on July 8, 2009 at 8:44 AM
I would agree that a little further to left would have been preferable but an otherwise very fine image.

Regards

JohnS
Posted by Guy Rogers on July 8, 2009 at 1:28 PM
Hello Chris.

Nice capture and its always nice to get one with a fish in its beak. Also like the base of the image with the oof layers, makes it more interesting that just a plain sky.

Only nit already covered.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Nigel Blake on July 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Guy has already put comments that match what I was going to put! very nice indeed.
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on July 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Thanks for the feedback all - always good to hear when something isn't quite right. The image was cropped about 10% so there is room for manoeuvre.

Cheers,
Chris