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Flamingo

Image # 1D2_03371

Floreana Island

 

Canon 100-400L/f4.5-5.6 IS at 340 mm

ISO 320, f/8, 1/2500 second

Manual Metering

Handheld

 

This was the only chance we had to shoot flamingos, and for the most part they were pretty far away. This is a moderate crop of the original frame, taken when one of them came the closest to us. I was surprised to see the 340 mm focal length in the EXIF data - this was clearly unintentional. The push-pull zoom of my 100-400 got a little sticky a couple of times, and I must have thought it was fully extended, when it actually wasn't. In any case, they were beautiful to see.