This really isn't much of a crop at all. We were in the inner harbour watching the diver from a friend's boat…. the bird was opposite and we had already taken dozens and dozens of photos of it, all, or most were keepers. We watched it dive and then tried to predict where it was going to re-surface again when suddenly with a whoosh….. it surfaced just a foot from the boat. It was not concerned or cared little about as as we made eye contact with it. At this point you knew just how big it really was. Like a big Christmas turkey. Dave and his mate mate Dave panicked but I kept it together and managed to snap off a dozen or so shots before it dived again…… wow! The shot was hand held with a Pentax K3 splash proof camera and 300mm splash proof lens, you need this waterproofing when you are on the water, something that the Pentax K3 gives me.
During the afternoon and from the boat, we photographed other exciting beauties including close ups of a Black Guillemot. I have yet to look at the pics but I am getting to it as the evening wears on, keep checking back on the blog to see more close up diver shots......... because it surfaced feet from us on 3 seperate times in all.
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