After a bit of good late afternoon luck in Hallo Bay, five of us bailed on the bears in hopes of photographing puffins. After a 15 minute skiff ride, an eagle flew Ninagiak Island as we landed and hundreds of puffins simply left. Confident, but remembering my first evening on Plateaufjellet in Spitzbergen, we set up our tripods and within ten minutes we had more than a few Horned Puffins land right in front of us. We did not get back to the boat for dinner until after 10:30pm.
Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens with the 1.4X III TC and the EOS-1D. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at zero: 1/400 sec. at f/11 set manually. Central sensor AF (only) with rear focus and re-compose.
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