Are we surprised that I took lots of albatross photographs during three months living and working on Antipodes island? Not really. But how do you keep things fresh and interesting from a photographic point of view? There are only so many ways to make images of big glorious birds causing around the landscape.
My most-used lens for the trip was the Nikon 28-200mm. Light and compact enough to carry around all day (even attached to the brick of the Nikon Z9), and versatile enough to give me a myriad of options photographically. On my ‘days-off’, I could venture out with the long lens (my workhorse 80-400mm on an FTZ converter) to make different images. I love the array of framing options that working with these zooms give me.
These are just a selection of ten different images, all of Antipodean albatrosses. Which is your favourite? I have so many variations on these themes, and I know there are more images that can be made. I even left out my usual pan-blur technique! I really enjoyed thinking in monochrome for some black and white images that I’ll post about soon.
