Vermontster - your photo of the puffin...

jdeg

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Looks just like the photo of the Puffin on the cover of popular photography's July 2011 cover for subscribers.

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Vermontster

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Wow. Pretty good observation. A little Photoshop magic and I bet they could be identical. I am not much a birder if you will, but the Puffins were pretty cool. I watched them through an observation hut for 2-1/2 hours. That is a long time for me to stay in one place.
 

jdeg

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When I got the issue yesterday I thought to myself "where have I seen this before?" haha

That's a great shot btw, looks like the waiting paid off!
 

Tigertail

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Puffins are wonderful birds as I found out on my trip to Mull this year.

......unfortunately my only pics were taken with my Panasonic as I didn't want to risk my Nikon in the (very) persistant rain so I won't be posting them on here!

Heather
 

Tigertail

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Heather, did you see Steve's Pic's of Puffins this morning? If not, go up to the "New Threads" above and look for "Puffins in the rain". He took his pics at the Isle of Mull. He did a nice job!

Thanks Chris!

I was there and saw Steve with his D90 in a waterproof cover and a big plastic bag! Brave man! I also saw plenty of others who must have had problems afterwards as they had their cameras out with NO protection at all and they were soaked. My panasonic was inside my waterproof jacket most of the time and I only took 18 pics in 2 hours, but it was great just to watch the birds.

Heather
 

Vermontster

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Thanks Chris!

but it was great just to watch the birds.

The Isle of Mull appears to have a lot of vegetation. The island I was on was mostly a big rock. The island was a bird sanctuary and we were restricted to viewing the birds in a small shanty like hut. The rocks the birds stood on were quite guano covered! I took thousands of shots and ended up with a few fairly good ones (some of which can be seen in my photo gallery).
 
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