Surprise Visitors Today

[NorthernFocus]

Gannets! I don't remember ever seeing them around here when I was a lad. But in all fairness during winters I spent all of my time in the woods rather than on the sea. And summers when I was on the water they would have been up north nesting. Anyway, here I am 8500 mi(14,000km) from where I recently photographed gannets in Muriwai, NZ, and I run into their cousins.

It was a bit dark, drizzling, and foggy so the photos aren't the best quality. More documentary I suppose. But the de-haze tool did work wonders on them.

1) Yep, those are gannets.



2) A porpoise snuck into my BG unnoticed until PP.



3) And a few pelicans wandered by.



4)

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[Craigie]

A nice set of images Dan, I do like the pelicans.

[madcrow]

Nicely done, good series.

[ST1]

Well seen and captured Dan

[NorthernFocus]

Thanks, guys. The first two are just snapshots proving (to myself) that we did in fact have gannets around. There are plenty of pelicans so I should eventually be able to produce a few better shots than these two. Less fog and more light would be nice

But I've set a goal for myself to shoot every day while we're here (45 days). So sooner or later conditions are bound to cooperate.

[Wavelength]

Excellent shots

[bnnrcn]

I like the pelican shots Dan

[RandyRFJP]

Great set of photos. I, too, particularly like the ones of the pelicans.

[NorthernFocus]

Thanks for the additional comments, folks. There is no shortage of pelicans around here. When we get some decent light I should be able to get some really good images of them. Today I managed some shots of them diving though in poor light therefore high ISO.