Extended range gannet.
Out locally with a couple of short primes, the ef200 and ef300 - trying for swallows and martins with the 5d4. Struggled, Id decided badly what to bring. Left, and at the harbour on the way home found a storm of gannets creating masses of dive splashes well over beyond the Castle promontory with some much closer stragglers that'd have well been inside range of longer lenses, rather closer to the pier than I've seen before - all of those longer lenses were at home... shot some, hoping for the best. That above was a real stretch for the 300mm.
Might have been a big shoal of mackerel close in, chasing sandeels. They're not that often quite so close inshore. Fishing from the pier only rarely produces mackerel even when the bay is stiff with their shoals.
Extended range gannet.
Out locally with a couple of short primes, the ef200 and ef300 - trying for swallows and martins with the 5d4. Struggled, Id decided badly what to bring. Left, and at the harbour on the way home found a storm of gannets creating masses of dive splashes well over beyond the Castle promontory with some much closer stragglers that'd have well been inside range of longer lenses, rather closer to the pier than I've seen before - all of those longer lenses were at home... shot some, hoping for the best. That above was a real stretch for the 300mm.
Might have been a big shoal of mackerel close in, chasing sandeels. They're not that often quite so close inshore. Fishing from the pier only rarely produces mackerel even when the bay is stiff with their shoals.