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Well, it is exactly like me. I'm not great with boats either. Here is the solution: It works miracles. My last trip to the Isle of May was very smooth, I just picked the weather right. However, we recently went to Isle of Staffa, which took about 40 minutes on a roughish sea in a small boat...

Have a look at this small crop of a telephoto picture: Doesn't look very pretty, does it? I can assure you, this is not a lens problem, this is not front or back focusing. It's the air. Have a look at another crop from the same shot: You can clearly see the distortion at the uprights in...

Another arctic tern.

And this is arctic tern parent carrying food for its chick.

Arctic tern chick.

Is it too late for big head shots?

Soaring with fish. Puffin rocket.

Hear my roar! Oh, have you been taking pictures?

Alan! Alan! Alan! I think these are parents with a grown-up kid.

They beat their wings really fast, up to 6 times per second. In this picture, taken at 1/2000 s, the wing tips are still blurred.

I went to Isle of May today. Took tons of pictures, so this is only the beginning ;).

Sometimes even a UWA lens is not wide enough. This is a composite of 6 shots, 3 vertically, 2 horizontally. The individual shots were taken in landscape orientation. The distortion is so huge that I had to leave the tower on the right leaning a bit. When I tried straightening it, it looked even...

I spotted this guy fishing from about 300 yd away an started moving slowly towards it to get a better shot. Alas, it got spooked and took off. This is a small crop.

Black brothers.