Herring Gull

Oh I do indeed like to be beside the seaside when light like this is available. The framing of the bird, by the way, is quite deliberate; the 1Ds has 45 possible focus points and I opted for the farthest on the right to get the maximum amount of beach and sky in the remainder of the shot.

Canon 1Ds MkII, Canon 100-400mm IS USM lens, 1/1,000th sec, f/9, 400mm at ISO 400. Distance to subject: c 5m

Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)

Going through unedited files, I found this shot of a herring gull closing in on something unseen below the water. The focus being tight on the eye despite an aperture of f/4 was a bonus, as were the water droplets, captured at a whopping 5,300th of a second.

Canon 1Ds MkII, Canon 70-200mm L, 1/5,300th sec, f/4, 200mm at ISO 200