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Skomer Island - Puffins 2024

 

Well it's that time of year again folks and I had to get my annual Puffin addiction treated. I gather the day before the seas had been rough and a couple of days earlier the boats didn't run so I was thanking my lucky stars yesterday for such nice weather.

 

I seem also to hit the sandeel catching period well too as the flying clowns wwre in full fishing mode.

 

This year I'd hired a RF 200-800mm lens as I've been wondering about it and whether it or the RF100-500mm would be the better bet and as I have the 100-400 I was thinking this might be the better bet. The ability to zoom in to 800mm (more with a 1.6 crop) is certainly useful but I did find my hands, arms and back aching during the day and after. It certainly seems sharp enough and despite the 3200 ISO the software made short weather of fixing noise.

 

I am by no means a wildlife photographer so wasn't sure what I'd get and decided to use the back-up cameras with it's better capabilities for wildlife tracking. I certainly didn't always get it right but I think I nailed enough shots to show it indeed has great capabilities.

 

Anyway, be prepared for a host of puffin images although I'm having to increasingly use a sluggish laptop for editing. IT people just won't call back as I need an expert to try and sort out my PC😖

 

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