Atlantic Puffin portrait

Atlantic Puffin - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Gorgeous, aren’t they?

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Sally Hallam says:

14 September, 2024 at 4:25 pm

Just gorgeous, the amount of detail on the feathers and the rest of the head is amazing!

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1. David @ the HALL of EINAR says:
  
  16 September, 2024 at 10:01 am
  
  Thanks Sally – I was very pleased with the light and the detail in this one – it really shows their character, as well as the hydrodynamic shape of their facial feathers.
  
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Henry says:

14 September, 2024 at 7:10 pm

Great portrait! how did you get so close?
They are subtly different from the Pacific horned puffin. I’d love to get some images of them.
I have some close ups of the tufted puffin in my Twitter timeline.

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1. David @ the HALL of EINAR says:
  
  16 September, 2024 at 10:05 am
  
  Thanks so much Henry. I must have been at least 5 metres (15 feet) away from it, as that’s my lens’s closest focussing distance. On Westray, many of the Puffins are habituated to human presence and will approach people because they are curious. That means you can sit still on soft grass and enjoy their antics as they fly in to roost every evening in the summer.
  I’d love to see the other Puffin species in the wild.
  
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