Gannet of Bempton Cliffs

Spot on Herb ~ well caught sharp shooter :~) Y* ~ All the best ~ Nick

Thanks Nick. Not bad for a very cheap 55-300 zoom at full blast. Rather high Iso to get the F11 250th exposure but a small price to pay for a delicious capture.
Cheers, Herb

attractive shot → splendid picture
have a nice week, Herb → Marek-Ewjan

Thank you Mark. Always nice to see you here. Have a great week yourself. Herb

... attractive perspective (perhaps: "seen >under< the Bempton Cliffs" ?? ) ...

... nice crisp shot, suitable for a birder's handbook ... (your Nikon@300mm beats my Canon with 300 Canon lens ... if I could pry my wallet open, I would like to upgrade to Nikon with Tamron 18-300 anti-shake ... ah well, just wishing ... )
Best Regards, Wally

Hi Wally. Yes, this ended up very well indeed. My Nikon 7100 and Nikon AF-S 55-300, 4.5-5.6 GED worked well here. That unfortunately is not always the case. Its good, well stopped down and at a high shutter speeds but I must also remind myself that I am shooting at a 35mm equivalent of 450mm and that is some zoom. The inbuilt VR certainly gives you a couple of stops to play with too. Funny enough I often feel that I might be better off with Canon stuff as I used to do Canon 35mm and even have a Canon pocket camera. Afraid I don't know the Tamron 18-300. Cheers and good luck, Herb

Herb very well captured and the sea has been rendered very well.

Glad that you like this Steve. Yes at 300mm (450) and from some distance away the sea is perfectly out-of-focus but not too much perhaps. Took a lot of these critters on this day.
Cheers, Herb

Cracking shot Herb, beautifully crisp.

Best regards, Doug

Thanks Doug. I shall never call that lens again. - When I first bought it, I also bought what I thought was a good UV filter too. I placed it on and then took the traditional test card shots. Big mistake! I nearly threw the lens away as the results were so bad, only to find out much later that it was the filter that was at fault. Moral there somewhere! Regards, Herb