Roger, I shot with the 300mm lens, as well as the 70-200mm lens, and got a fair bunch of images from the sighting, as it went on for a few minutes. One thing to note is that the sky low to the horizon often takes on a white tone, due to dust and haze in the atmosphere, and you can see it low down in this image. Hence shooting with the 70-200, you would not end up with the deep blue tone to the sky overhead but rather end up having a contrast issue where dark trees meet white skyline unless you were able to shoot from water level upwards perhaps

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