DM: West Wales Dyxum Meeting may 2010

So....here are a few photos from friday of the meeting......puffins !

We went to Skomer island to see those lovely creatures :-)
















Edited by jkp1 - 17 May 2010 at 15:23

My initial contribution...

#1 Waiting for the boat


#2 Choppy


#3 Fat puffin


#4 Thin puffin


#5 Return of the boat


Fantastic place: Good company too!

Yes, more. Puffins, sea and boats - great subjects for you. Especially the puffins - exposure nightmares though they are (fabulous job on that with the first shot jkp1).

One Puffin

Two Puffins getting together

Two Puffins setting up home

12 Dyxumites at play

Great puffin in flight shot Chris - the classic one I wanted to get was as they have just flown up the cliff and spend a second hovering at the cliff edge before plonking themselves down - but I think I'd have had to have been very luck to get it.

@pegelli: I did get a number of shots closer than that but was rather taken with those two against the out-of-focus sea... and to be honest I was amazed to get anything with a 75-300 kit lens coupled with a generic x2 teleconverter (equivalent 600mm f11.0!)..

Of course, it was not all about puffins (although I've got some more puffin shots myself) - there were also flowers:

Celandine..

#6


#7


#8


& Wild garlic

#9


#10

I still can't work out why the Welsh Sphinx at Broad Haven isn't more famous.