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A Masked Boobie:


A Galapagos Owl:


A male Frigate Bird:


A female Frigate Bird:


A Galapagos Sea Lion:


A Blue Footed Boobie taking off:


A Blue Footed Boobie in flight:


A baby Sea Lion:


A Galapagos Lava Gull:


A naughty baby Sea Lion:


A Sally Lightfoot Crab:


A Marine Iguana:


A Sea Turtle:


A pile of Marine Iguanas:


A Crested Heron eating a baby crab:


A Blue Footed Boobie and Chick:


A Masked Boobie:


A baby Albatross:


An adult Albatross in flight:


A Galapagos Yellow Warbler:


A Whimbrel :


A Herron:


A Plover:


A Galapagos Giant Turtle:


A Galapagos Giant Tortoise doing an impersonation of ET:


The head of a Galapagos Giant Tortoise:


A Galapagos Land Iguana:


A Galapagos Land Iguana:


A male Frigate Bird:


Dinner time for a Galapagos Giant Tortoise:


An inquisitive Galapagos Giant Tortoise:


Another Galapagos Sea Lion:


A Galapagos Gull:


A Galapagos Swallow-tailed Gull:


A very happy Marine Iguana:


A Galapagos Swallow-tailed Gull:


Another Land Iguana:


A Galapagos Heron about to go fishing:


Proof that they're really Marine Iguanas:


Proof that they're really Marine Iguanas:


Some Coral:


Galapagos Penguins at the Equator:


A Galapagos Hawk:


A Galapagos Locust:


See, I told you it was a penguin:


The reason why they're called Masked Boobies.


An immature Red Footed Boobie:


The Galapagos Heron:


A Red Footed Boobie:


who can grip branches.


A Tropic Bird:

Looking at the bird in flight photos you must have one hell of a shutter speed and IS.

Teaos wrote:Looking at the bird in flight photos you must have one hell of a shutter speed and IS.

Indeed, that last shot, for example, was taken at 1/3200th of a second at 200mm using f/2.8 with a four stop IS lens. Also worth noting, that is not a bird that hovers it moves very very quickly. That said IS only prevents motion of the camera not the subject, however, I took that shot from a Zodiac just like this.



Needless to say I'm very happy with my new Camera £3900 well spent

]Wow very nice, I just recently brought my girlfriend a Camera, a T3 Canon Rebel, a nice starter camera. comes with a standard 17-55mm wide angle lens.

I am planning on getting her This lens for Christmas. A 55-250mm, one of my astronomy friends say that in dark skys he can make out the moons of Jupiter with it and the phases of Venus.

Teaos wrote:]Wow very nice, I just recently brought my girlfriend a Camera, a T3 Canon Rebel, a nice starter camera. comes with a standard 17-55mm wide angle lens.

I am planning on getting her This lens for Christmas. A 55-250mm, one of my astronomy friends say that in dark skys he can make out the moons of Jupiter with it and the phases of Venus.

The 55-250 will go well with that body and gives a nice range when coupled with the kit lens. I have this body:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-EOS-Mark- ... 304&sr=8-1

and 4 lenses. This was taken with this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-70-200mm- ... 383&sr=1-2

I was tempted to go for the T3i or even the T4, but its her first real camera apart from point and shoots. She did a photography class for uni and knows all the features ect, so I thought this would be a good learning one before we went all out for a better one.

A hell of a kit you have.

Ho-ly crap those are some gorgeous shots.

Teaos wrote:I was tempted to go for the T3i or even the T4, but its her first real camera apart from point and shoots. She did a photography class for uni and knows all the features ect, so I thought this would be a good learning one before we went all out for a better one.

A hell of a kit you have.

Basically any SLR is going to be a massive step up from a P&S camera. Just in terms of options alone they take getting used to. You can always sell bodies and lenses on eBay if you want to upgrade. I started with a second hand 300D and worked up from there when I knew it I was interested enough to spend extra money.

They are some amazing photo's.

Ian can you recommend any good books or websites that have user friendly advice on using these types of cameras?

Here's an interesting shot for you:



That is not a tail, or anything else solid, at the bottom of the photo. I managed to capture the bird mid-crap!

Teaos wrote:Ian can you recommend any good books or websites that have user friendly advice on using these types of cameras?

http://www.digitalslrphoto.com/dslrbasics/ isn't bad as a starter guide.

Some useful tips: http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/10-tips-f ... l-slr.html

Cheers

It's worth noting here that those pics are rather scaled down. The originals are 5760 x 3840 pixels...

GrahamKennedy wrote:It's worth noting here that those pics are rather scaled down. The originals are 5760 x 3840 pixels...

Indeed. Photobucket shrinks them when you upload. Here is an original, click the link to see it, you may have to zoom to full size:

http://www.ditl.org/EE6A5325.jpg