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The thing that got me was the bending of the water surface. These birds must touch down with extreme precision and gentleness.
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An old image from 2007, I reworked it recently. Seagulls following a boat at the Bahamas. Note that it was taken with a shortish (200 mm equivalent) manual lens.
A wonderful image, Jaapv. The water is sensational and you caught the gull at exactly the right instant. Doing it with a manual focus lens is astounding. I see a couple of pieces of debris on the water that you could get rid of if so inclined, but they’re not very distracting.
Thank you , Dennis. If truth be told , I often prefer manual focus over AF. It gives far more control. It has a bit of a learning curve which I absolved in a distant past, but is as effective as AF in many cases.
