The End: Galapagos Day 15/July 20, Morning, Black Turtle Cove, Santa Cruz

This image of a Brown Noddy waiting to scoop up any wriggling baitfish that might escape from the adult pelican’s pouch was created with the hand held Canon 400mm f/4 IS DO lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 320. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1/500 sec. at f/4. It seems as if I clicked my ISO setting one to far to the left as the light levels were low at 6:21 am and I am completely comfortable working at ISO 400.

Ditto the opening image above only this time ISO 400 and this time the pelican was a juvenile.

This Blue-footed Booby image was created with the hand held Canon 400mm f/4 IS DO lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/500 sec. at f/4.5. It takes teamwork between the guide, in this case the gifted Juan Salcedo, the panga driver, and the photography guide–that would be me, to perfectly position the Zodiac so that everyone has a good chance to make a great image.

This image of a perched Brown Noddy was again created with the hand held Canon 400mm f/4 IS DO lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1/800 sec. at f/4.5. If it seems as if I am guessing at the exposures and you are wondering how in the world I get them all right all the time (not to worry, I do screw up on rare occasion :)), check out Exposure Simplified in ABP II (916 pages on CD only). It includes everything that I learned about digital nature photography from 1998 until late 2006.

This backlit image of a developing Blue-footed Booby feeding spree that never really materialized (with the Beagle in the background) was created with the Canon 70-200mm f/4 IS lens hand held at 154mm and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2 1/3 stops: 1/640 sec. at f/5.6.