Friend of Yours?

[John Ippolito]

One from last July
Tufted Puffins and Parakeet Auklet
St Paul, Pribilof Islands, Alaska
D300, 300 2.8 VR, ISO 640 f 3.5 , 1/1000, tripod

[Fabs Forns]

Oh my, what a captured, gorgeous and impressive habitat and interaction. Not crazy about the OOF rock on the left, but it would have compromised your bg to stop anymore. LArge crop to get that much DOF at f3.5?

[Grace Scalzo]

Hi John, Love the birds in their environment. Beautiful capture, despite the oof rock but not a big deal.

[John Ippolito]

Hi Fabs. Thanks for looking. Not much of a crop at all. Little off the top and bottom. This is the orig RAW converted to JPG.

[denise ippolito]

John, Really nice capture. I like the inclusion of the rocks and the story the image tells. Very nicely done. Your PP work is impressive.:)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pretty cool angle and captured moment. Sharpness looks good, too. I would only tone down the whites of the puffins.

[Harshad Barve]

This is simply awesome image , excellent
TFS

[Lance Peters]

Well done - Big congrats - just super.
As mentioned the OOF rock is a pity - but the rest more than makes up for it.
:)

[Arthur Morris]

While I like the auklet with it raised wings the blocked view of the puffins in part and the huge o-o-f rock that dominates the image ruin it totally for me :)

I think that most of the folks above are being too kind and not really helping by praising this image.

I do agree on the good processing.

[Stu Bowie]

I like the comp John, and good to see the interaction. Something diferent here, and I like it.

[John Ippolito]

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions! I agree that the OOF rock is a distraction from the interspecies interaction that I so much enjoyed at the time.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Really loved the moment captured here...

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice interaction and details, did best from your position! would be better w/o the oof cliff, put you can't fly like the puffins ;)

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Love the angle, subjects and what a great caption for the image! :) I hope you didn't do the Andy Rouse; i.e. hanging on precariously with one hand, photographing with the other.