Hi Christian
Great pose - well worth the crawling about on the sand. I like the others too, particularly No.3 but it just lacks the detail in the highlights that No. 4 has (I hate photographing white birds..... :-)> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney, Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/brianwalters Quoting Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://photography2.skofteland.net:8080/displayimage.php?pos=-98 > > I was on the beach last weekend working on approaching Greater > black-backed gulls. For very large birds, they are remarkably > skittish. > I managed to get pretty close to this mature adult and came away > with > some ok shots. This is one of my favorites. > > Tech: darkside big-ass lens. F11 1/400 ISO 200. I would have used > some > nice fill flash, but the sigma Ef500 died on the beach. > > -- > > Christian > http://photography.skofteland.net > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Find out how you can get spam free email. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/3 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

